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Marian Walsh decides she doesn't want that state job after all

Walsh withdrew her name from nomination today for that state housing-finance job, Wicked Local West Roxbury reports, adding she'll instead stay in the state Senate (so Mike Rush? John Rogers? That state rep from Dedham whose name I can never remember? Never mind).

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Had this been handled right, with a more recession-appropriate salary to begin with (like $120k as later agreed upon), Walsh would've sailed into the position and likely would've done a good job.

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That woman has no shame. Yeah we'll never know how good we could have had with you doing whatever it was you were going to do in a job that apparently didn't even need to be filled. Love how Patrick's people crafted a new job description based around her unrelated resume, no shame.

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Businesses develop new needs and hire new people all the time. Job descriptions are rewritten to reuse existing personnel slots for new needs. Job descriptions are even rewritten for particular candidates who are best overall for the position, to accurately reflect the strengths and weaknesses of the chosen candidate (which affects the exact role and expectations). None of that is necessarily improper, and it's how things sometimes get done.

Conceivably, something more sinister is going on here, but I'd need evidence for that before dragging anyone's name further through the mud.

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"Caswell had already written and sent to Gonzalez a two-page job description for an assistant executive director. But that job description outlined duties that included working to develop new projects and procure new financing, expertise that Walsh did not possess.

The revised description, which is one paragraph, focused her duties on government-relations work, including merging the agency with the Massachusetts Development Authority, and not on tax exempt capital financing."

yeah, she was clearly the best woman for the job, which apparently had to be redefined solely for the purpose of handing it to her without anyone else even being considered. A real Cinderella.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/art...

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Perhaps they had multiple jobs that they wanted to fill, they had a candidate for one, and they had a hiring slot?

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I just hope the Governor can rebound from this mess and get back to business.

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Senator Marion Walsh got Sarah Palined. You can spin it however you want boys, had the Governor appointed a man to that position two weeks ago, he'd be sworn in and looking at swatches for his new office drapes by now.

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It's a conspiracy. The Trilateral Commission and the Skull and Bones Club did in our Marian. I know because I can hear them through my silver fillings.

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Please be more specific as to why Walsh would have been confirmed, had she been male.

I'm aware that women in leadership positions are still sometimes perceived differently than their male counterparts, but I would need some convincing that Walsh being male would have made all the difference in this particular case.

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First off, I haven't heard anything related to Ms. Walsh being XX in any criticism of the post. Unless you read "crone" into "crony," that is.

Second, "Sarah Palined?" Is that a verb now? What does it mean, "to become utterly idiotic, revealing deep lack of intelligence, understanding, and honesty, reduced to jibbering non-sensical non-sequiturs whenever interviewed?"

I don't think that happened to Ms. Walsh. She can still hold a conversation and answer a simple question. Heck, I'd bet she can even walk and chew gum.

Really, any comparison of Ms. Walsh to Sarah Palin is the greatest insult to her I've heard in this whole matter.

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Walsh was a victim, and I kinda feel sorry for her. The Gov asks her to take a position, and she accepted. Next thing she knows, everybody is screaming at her. Look, I don't know anything about Ms. Walsh, but I hope she comes out OK in all this.

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She seems (at least to me) like a cogent, intelligent person. She got put in a hot spot, and (to me at least) that doesn't make her look bad. As she said, she just wants to do a good job for the people, and she thinks at this point she can do that best in the Senate. Can you really blame her for accepting a position with a higher salary? Like I wouldn't! To tell the truth, I think I like her better after this, just because of sympathy. I doubt I'm the only one.

Deval, on the other hand... well, let's just say he's making me feel like together we can't. What a tin ear he has. What's he going to do for an encore? Hire Dan Grabauskas a chauffeur?

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Um, no honey, Sarah Palin got outed as a dimwit who can't even seem to read with any comprehension, avoids facts, logic, and evidence like the plague, and thinks being a brutally dictatorial beauty queen can make up for it.

Walsh was fragged because too many people in these parts don't get that you need professional people to oversee and coordinate large handouts from the federal government or you don't get those handouts - or you aren't eligible for as much as you might have gotten. She got taken down for the same tribal, short-sighted reasons that we don't have a comprehensive plan for anything in this state. Patrick should have done a better job explaining the consequences of not having somebody in that position.

Walsh will be fine because she is a good legislator, even if people questioned the wisdom and existance of the job that she wanted. Palin, however, is still the corrupt, incompetent rapist coddler that she was reavealed to be.

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