Quid Pro Appointum Redux

I voted against Tim Pawlenty, that's probably obvious. At election time, although I disagreed with his politics and that his "no new taxes" pledge was wrong-headed, I believed he was at least a hard-working, honest guy.

The last few months have demonstrated that I was wrong. He's just another corrupt politician. I commented on his laughable appointment of Vicki Grunseth to chair the Metro Airports commission a few weeks ago in Quid Pro Appointum -- Act I, apparently.

But now comes the news that Pink-Slip Pawlenty has created a position for Ryan Bronson at the DNR, despite such deep cuts in the organization that it'll be a miracle if they can perform their function at all. Bronson will be the hunting and fishing retention recruitment coordinator. While many dedicated, necessary DNR employees will be laid off, Bronson will be getting paid $55,000 a year in this newly created, but wholly unnecessary, position.

Ryan Bronson was a former political director of Pawlenty's campaign, but of course that has nothing to do with the creation of this job, does it?