Carl Brinker's reporting that Jim Wright's trying to shove his way into the executive director's position at the Development Authority of the North Country or DANC.
On it's face, it's absurd. It's not absurd that Wright is trying to pull this off, it's absurd that people may be taking this guy seriously. I mean where's the muscle in his muscling? Bruno's headed for a cage, Pataki's faded to black, D'Amato's kissing every Democratic ass he can GPS--but Wright's pulling some kind of power play as if.
Yup, as if he still can.
Please, Boss Jimmy, pad your pension elsewhere--like in Sumatra or Mongolia. We understand they're in dire need of solid waste contract lobbying expertise and redundant broadband RFPing.
In other words, Boss Jimmy, Upstate New York has enough mouths to feed without you lining up to get yours.
Do the good people up in the North Country know Wright's a bloviating relic, or has Boss Jimmy still got them all snookered? To this end, we sent an email to Boss Jimmy and/or Boss Jimmy's blogger and pretty much asked him/them that question. But like the first email we sent a week or two ago when we got wind of Wright's DANC move, we got no response.
Here's the latest email:
Hi Political IV,
We were wondering if you had anything to say about Carl Brinker's posttoday that suggests Jim Wright is attempting to muscle the DANC board into hiring him as its next Executive Director. We ask because, again, word on the street is that you're really close with Wright and run some kind of flower shop or something--or that you're Wright himself. I really don't care one way or the other, but was just curious as to the reason you haven't written a thing on Wright heading to DANC, since it seems to be such a huge issue up there. Plus we're really interested in how you think this thing is going to play out.
Thanks
Hmm. Maybe Political IV's got a dog in this fight.
Ya think?
