What Steve Kass was really saying in today’s ProJo
Steve Kass just doesn’t get it.
Every couple of weeks the folks at The Journal manage to squeeze another gem out of Gov. Carcieri’s
communications director, who recently waxed poetic to Political Scene on all the reasons why he doesn’t think it’s important or plausible for the administration to communicate with a Democratic Lt. Governor.
From today’s ProJo:
Asked what difference it might have made in the handling of the storm if Carcieri had had a lieutenant governor of his choosing back in Rhode Island, Kass said: “If you’re the governor and the lieutenant governor is part of your team and you have philosophical similarities, etcetera, it’s easy for the governor to be out of the country or out of state and his right-hand guy is in charge and there is no political stuff going on between the two, which there always is in this state.
“Would you run your company with one guy at the top and the deputy is trying to get his job? It’s just not good. … I don’t know why Rhode Islanders like that.”
That’s about as intellectually dishonest of a characterization as you’ll ever see. Kass would like us all to believe that if Republican Kerry King had been elected lt. governor, he’d have no interest in the succeeding Carcieri. Yeah, right….ok?
