In a characteristically display of arrogance and entitlement, Kathy Dunderdale today reappointed two of her key political hacks – Len Simms and Ross Reid – to their patronage jobs in the provincial public service.
What makes the whole sordid business that much more distasteful is that Dunderdale tried to make it sound as if the whole exercise was legitimate:
In keeping with Provincial Government policy, they had resigned from their respective positions to work on the October 11 election campaign.
The two buckos resigned their positions knowing full-well they’d get them back inside a month.
Of course, if any other deputy ministers resigned in order to work for another political party, you can be damn sure Dunderdale would never have reappointed them at all, let alone do so as swiftly as she hooked her own two back up to the trough.
Those appointments got buried in another release on yet more changes to the senior public service.
The record-setting churn in senior management continues.
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