A couple of days ago I posted No Degree, Little Experience Pay Off Big about how Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker hired an unqualified son of a big doner as head of environmental and regulatory affairs at the Commerce Department. Last night Rachel Maddow showed the qualifications of some of the other candidates for that position.
Since the story broke Walker has demoted the 27 year-old. The other candidates were:
"The first, Oscar Herrera, is a former state cabinet secretary under Republican Gov. Scott McCallum with a doctoral degree and eight years' experience overseeing the cleanup of petroleum-contaminated sites. The second, Bernice Mattsson, is a professional engineer who served since 2003 in the post to which Deschane was appointed. By contrast, Deschane has no college degree, little management experience and a couple of drunken-driving convictions. His father represents a trade group that gave more than $121,000 to Walker and his running mate."
As Maddow said, if you think government is the problem, maybe you suck at running it (ok, I paraphrased slightly). Jon Stewart used to phrase it as, it only sucks when you (meaning Republicans) run it.
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