Again from the MinnPost (they're starting to regularly produce a stream of relevant breaking news), Joe Kimball writes that former St. Paul Mayor, Randy Kelly, has been mentioned as a possible nominee to the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
Kelly certainly shares political philosophy with the governor. He values keeping taxes down at the expense of necessary services and important infrastructure improvements. Current St. Paul mayor, Chris Coleman, has had the difficult task of catching up to the neglect of one term of Randy Kelly, preceded by two terms of Mayor Norm Coleman.
I don't know if Kelly would be a decent choice or not. It's clear that whoever takes over the Department of Transportation will share Pawlenty's vision of building countless roads in the suburbs and Republican areas of Greater Minnesota with tomorrow's money, but spend as little on possible on maintenance or mass transit development. All we can hope for now after several years of Lt. Gov. Molnau at the helm is some competence. It is a sad state of affairs when our main hope when public officials are selected are whether they have the mere competence to do their job.
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