Peter of Ockham
A rather dull bit of
legislative action includes a simple explanation for a massive crime.
Background: Last summer the state Destroyer of Natural Resources (DNR) aided and abetted a wildfire as it grew into a record-breaking monster. Wherever it could, DNR stopped county and private owners from fighting the fire.
Murder.
I couldn't tell if this murder was motivated by "Endangered" "Species" genocide laws, as one
previous murder was. Now a simpler explanation appears amid the Destroyer's legislative ass-covering........
Mary Verner, a former Spokane mayor who serves as the department’s deputy supervisor for resource protection and administration,
Self-explanatory sentence. All you need to know.
Verner was good at the routine parts of mayoring, but utterly failed at the emergency parts. She folded under the pressure of the 2008 Big Snow. Gov Gregoire, who was good at all aspects of governing and MAGNIFICENT in emergencies, had to fly in and manage the situation.
Now Verner has Petered upward into a position where her total failure in emergencies can destroy even more lives.
You don't need to understand "civics", whatever the fuck that means. You just need to understand bureaucracies, as explained by careful observers like Parkinson and Peter.
Labels: STRONG!