.MaddowBlog: If the Republican governor didn't pressure state officials to help her adult daughter, Kristi Noem could've simply said so. She chose a different tack.
Just days after a South Dakota agency moved to deny her daughter's application to become a certified real estate appraiser, Gov. Kristi Noem summoned to her office the state employee who ran the agency, the woman's direct supervisor and the state labor secretary. Noem's daughter attended too.
I'm mindful of the fact that these kinds of stories are probably not uncommon. It's easy to imagine a powerful official's relative facing some kind of bureaucratic hurdle, causing the relative to ask for a behind-the-scenes favor. At that point, the powerful official asks an aide to lend a hand, a few people call a few other people, and soon after the relative's problem is resolved.
While Peters was applying for the certification, Noem should have recused herself from discussions on the agency, especially any that would apply to her daughter's application, said Richard Painter, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School who was the chief ethics lawyer for former President George W. Bush. "It's clearly a conflict of interest and an abuse of power for the benefit of a family member," he said.
That's quite odd. The AP's report pointed to evidence of the governor misusing the powers of her office; it did not"disparage" the governor's daughter.yesterday afternoon pushing the same line:"Listen I get it. I signed up for this job. But now the media is trying to destroy my children."
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