F U CN RD THS, APLY
You gotta love this. Vo Dilun is now advertising the position of executive director of the state Emergency Management Agency, whose previous head honcho was sent packing as a scapegoat because of the Keystone Kops’ snow job back in December. But guess what? No experience is required in emergency management or public safety! Yowzah! But that’s OK. We are screwing the winning candidate out of a salary comparable with that of other state directors. Man, are we shrewd.
 
You’re doing a hell of a job, Little Rhody.

Kudos + Congrats
. . . to the aforementioned Providence mayor, David “Little Chi-Chi” Cicilline, who was recently named president of the National Conference of Democratic Mayors, taking over from Shirley Franklin, the mayor of Atlanta. Chi-Chi could end up being both president and vice president, since there is speculation that the VP, Detroit mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick, might not be able to finish his term.
 
The Detroit mayor has been embroiled in a scandal involving an extramarital affair (text messages sent between the mayor and his alleged paramour, outgoing chief of staff Christine Beatty, have been splashed over the front page of the Detroit Free Press). Three former police officers also accuse Kilpatrick of firing them for discovering, during an investigation of the mayor’s security detail, that the allegations against the mayor and Ms. Beatty were true and that city money may have been used to pay for out-of-town trysts. We’d say Kilpatrick is in a bit of trouble.
 
We await with bated breath a loin-clothed Ted Nugent’s announcement that he’s running for mayor, and that Chuck Norris is with him.
 
The buck stops where?

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