MnDOT: Farked!; other woes for Molnau and company.
November 13th, 2007 1:26 pm by DJ DanielsonI admit: I’m a big fan of news-aggregator Fark.com and the awesome, albeit sometimes harsh, satirical headlines. Last month “Farkers” had fun with the official logo of the Republican National Convention which is coming to St. Paul next year as a part of one of their frequent photoshop contests.
Yesterday, Fark linked to this column from the Rake with this heartwarming headline (tagged in the “obvious” category):
Minnesota DOT employees complain of “hostile phone conversations” with reporters covering bridge collapse. It’s getting so that states can’t kill their citizens without some civil servant being made uncomfortable by questions
It also appears Fark is coming into the mainstream somewhat: the site was featured in its own category yesterday on Jeopardy!
The termination of MnDOT’s emergency management director Sonia Pitt doesn’t seem to be even close to the end of issues for the administration of the state agency in charge of dealing with awful congestion and a bridge in the river.
Pitt’s supervision, including everything all the way up to commissioner and Lt. Gov. Carol Molnau, is being investigated as part of “standard procedure.”
Also, MnDOT is being investigated for not reaching goals to give projects to women and minority-owned businesses. We noted during our liveblogging of September’s one day special session that Rep. Willie Dominguez, DFL-Minneapolis, tried to pass an amendment requiring MnDOT to make a “good faith effort” to reach similar goals during the rebuilding of the 35W bridge.