On Robert J. Ambrogi’s blog, the author posts about an attorney in Kentucky who was named to head a new government office, but whose blog may have made Governor Ernie Fletcher nix the idea.

Fletcher had named lawyer C. Dodd Harris IV to direct a new Office of Merit System Referrals, which would look for political bias in merit job recommendations.
-Robert J. Ambrogi

After a newspaper report that named Harris as a Republican partisan who blasted Democrats on his blog (now defunct), the Governor dropped plans for the new office.

From the Lexington Herald-Leader:

While Harris is free to express his opinions, he’s obviously not the right man to root out political bias, said Jerry Lundergan, chairman of the Kentucky Democratic Party.

“Do they even do background checks on these people?” Lundergan asked. “So Fletcher hires a Republican who says he hates Democrats to run an office that’s literally going to screen recommendations for non-political jobs. Does he think we’re stupid?”

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