Presumably it is good that she wasn’t applying to get into a university.
Lol boomers love nepotism. They took advantage of meritocracy to advance their children at the expense of others.
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Yeah she failed the test to become an appraiser, her mom the governor called the agency head into her office with the daughter there, then she got the license, then they fired the agency head.
Let’s get Sherlock Holmes to solve this locked room mystery. It’s a real whodunit.
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You are acting like they care.
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Of course they don’t. They don’t believe politically conservative people can commit crimes. If they support Trump anyway I guess.
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Or that it is okay to commit crimes because of imagined crimes the “other side” commits.
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It’s not that they don’t care…it’s that they approve.
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Of course they approve. It’s not just conservatives, baby boomers ■■■■■■■ love nepotism even though most of them would be low skilled blue collar workers if they had been treated like that when they were younger.
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The actual story will never be known. Could have been a lousy evaluator, or the daughter might just be bad at filling out experience section of the application, or her boss didn’t give her enough real work to do, or she failed her test.
Terrible website though - too many clicks, no process map, no links to useful materials. The process itself requires the applicant to snail mail a copy of the exam result, document experience in Excel, etc.
A digital pioneer, this department is not!
It only cost $200k in taxpayer money to shut the lady up who they put out to pasture.
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I mean - 10 months to review an application is terrible. For qualified people, that’s a year of lower pay/delay in starting a business.
The certification requirements are simple enough - 200 hours of education, 1500 hours’ experience, and a test.
It’s possible (and maybe even likely) that the all the following are true:
- the daughter is unqualified
- the Governor acted inappropriately
- the department head isn’t getting the job done
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It’s North Dakota. Or South, I can’t even be bothered to remember.
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The way I keep it straight is that Dakota Fanning is the precocious girl in a few 2000s movies, and Dakota Johnson is the one in the mommy porn.
what if kristi pressured someone to fire a prosecutor who was going to go after her daughter?
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And who did that?
“Skilled”
Right! Not like the 'berbs of Pittsburgh!
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“It’s clearly a conflict of interest and an abuse of power for the benefit of a family member,”
No, its not.
It may or may not be.
Four months after the meeting to get the license is not the same as right after the meeting. One can fix a lot of errors during those four months.
Conclusions have been jumped.
However, Noem should clear up whatever was discussed at that meeting for national political purposes alone, if she has any such ambitions.
And…“While Peters was applying for the certification, Noem should have recused herself from discussions on the agency, especially any that would apply to her daughter’s application, said Richard Painter, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School who was the chief ethics lawyer for former President George W. Bush.”
A governor is supposed to drop control over an entire agency because her daughter wants to have a license anyone can train to acquire? Nonsense. This is not like a child making self serving deals they wouldn’t otherwise be qualified for in countries their parent is the chief representative to for the United Sates. That is where recusal and even resignation may be warranted.
Maybe we can let S. Dakota take care of this.
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I kind of agree the daughter being at the meeting complicates things.
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If anything, that is why the meeting needs to be explained, yes.
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