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Drooling on the Pillow

Monday, January 10, 2005

They Hire a NJ Political Appointee and Were Expecting . . . ? 

Hoo-boy. Readers are aware that among Sluggo's less beguiling traits is a fondness for Trump's The Apprentice. Maybe fondness is the wrong word. I have a jones.

The new season doesn't start until January 20th, but I'm getting my Apprentice kicks already. This year they came up with the lame and soon to be discarded McGuffin of piting high school graduates (Street Smarts) against MBAs and other college graduates (Book Smarts).

One of the Street Smartz gang is Tara, who according to Steve Kornacki's PoliticsNJ is:
A New Jersey native who parlayed her work on Jim
McGreevey’s 2001 gubernatorial campaign into a stint as
the governor’s appointments director, Tara will be
competing alongside eight other high-achieving high
school graduates on a team dubbed Street Smarts.
They will vie with a team of well-heeled college graduates
-- Book Smarts -- with a plum $250,000 gig in the
Trump empire at stake.

Problem is, Tara turns out to be a graduate of UVA.

McGreevey could have saved himself a lot of trouble had he appointed Tara to be the NJ Homeland Security coordinator. Except that, diploma or no, she obviously lacked one critical qualification.

Posted by: Sluggo / 1:12 PM
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