Dial I for Irony

Gerald DialThe appointment of the Democrat Gerald Dial to direct the new Rural Alabama Action Commission has been criticized as political payback for his appearance in a commercial for Republican Governor Bob Riley’s re-election campaign… e.g., in this Huntsville Times article or in this editorial from the Tuscaloosa News:

Gov. Bob Riley’s appointment of Gerald Dial to head rural development efforts for the Alabama Development Office does not bode well… The governor isn’t casting the appointment as a quid pro quo to reward Dial for his role in one of the nastiest (and most untrue) attack ads of the political season. But that’s how it looks… [Dial] arrives with too much political baggage.

If you subscribe to this theory about why Dial was appointed to this newly created $84,500 per year job, then you will find irony in Dial’s comment from a release (pdf) that he circulated last year to explain why he defeated an otherwise popular proposal that would have created a state Center for Rural Development, “I will not sit back and see your tax dollars wasted to create jobs to pay individual political debts.”

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