Saturday, May 12, 2007

Sweet

As Mountain Goat notes here, Gerry Sweet is leaving Bill Sali's employ, for unspecified reasons. MG links to the Boise Weekly and the Statesman, both of which say Sweet is leaving for an opportunity in the private sector. The Goat also links to KIVI which says he's leaving for family reasons.

So, it's hard to tell the real reason he's leaving. Typically, when a job change is announced and the reason is vague or unspecified, there is unpleasantness involved. Maybe Sweet just couldn't stand being a federal employee, given his dim view of government. It's hard to fathom why he just didn't announce the real reason, unless the real reason reflects poorly on somebody or something.

It's kind of hard to tell exactly what Sweet's title was, but Otter's staff was paid pretty well. Otter's District Director was making $80,000 a year, and a job paying that in Idaho is hard to come by.

I wonder what the real story is.

(BTW, it looks like Otter's Congressional staff was paid $1,072,384 annually.)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

There are at least two other possibilities: Gerry Sweet may have found it difficult working 40+ hours a week (Congressional staffers are usually expected to work like hell for years and years. On the other hand, Sali may have discovered that Sweet was incompetent (after all, Sweet couldn't keep a business going that sold guns in Idaho of all places! -- that tells you something about Sweet's incompetence). In any case, the vagueness indicates that Sweet was "sacked".

Anonymous said...

Can't sell guns in Idaho; that's great.

I know that the two guys were buddies. During the election season, last fall in October or thereabouts, Sweet and Sali and wives went into an eatery in Meridian for dinner. Just a normal, social evening with friends. I was there eating chow as well and observed the friendship. So if Sweet was sacked, it must have been something significant.

Still, I'm just speculating, but am standing by to see if any more details emerge.

Anonymous said...

He hardly ever showed up for work so he was asked to resign.