Riley at VV has the letter from my favorite State Senator (Ralph Smith) to his constituents on Governor Kaine’s decision to fire Rosy Scenario as his chief economic advisor. The letter is definitely worth a read, but Riley’s add-on is perfect:
Gee, Jody Wagner, Gov. Timmy!’s Sec. of Finance wouldn’t have anything to do with this botch job, would she? Well, I suppose she would. And she has the audacity to think that she should be our next Lt. Governor? What a joke!
So Jody Wagner will leave the Finance Department and announce her LG candidacy (Washington Post) on the heels of her department getting caught in a major numbers no-no. Maybe the Dems would be better off with the guy who joined the party five minutes ago after all.
July 22, 2008 at 3:18 pm |
[...] feel “excitement,” your wallet feels lighter As Jody Wagner moves on from botching the state’s financesto consider her next career move, I thought it might be interesting to [...]
July 31, 2008 at 9:58 pm |
You guys have totally missed the boat. Do you have any idea how difficult economic forecasting is, or how much work goes into it? We’re in the middle of the biggest economic mess since the Great Depression. No one got their forecasts right — certainly not the US Fed, the chairman of which was appointed by your beloved Republican President Bush… The financial forecasting gurus at all the Wall St banks got it wrong, too, which is why you’ve seen all their stocks drop so much in the last 6 months. If you want to pick on Jody Wagner, go ahead, but you might as well find something better than financial forecasting mistakes, since that’s pretty much par for the course in this economic meltdown.
June 25, 2009 at 10:14 pm |
[...] is she sure about those numbers? Going into the way-back machine we find this over at The right-wing liberal from Friday, July 18, 2008: So Jody Wagner will leave the Finance Department and announce her LG candidacy (Washington Post) [...]