Message man
January 3rd, 2011
By ddepledge
By ddepledge
Lenny Klompus, the former senior adviser to Gov. Linda Lingle, is back in the game at the state Capitol.
Klompus will help shape message and policy for state House Minority Leader Gene Ward, (R-Kalama Valley, Queen’s Gate, Hawaii Kai), and the GOP caucus.
“I’m helping out Gene for a while,” Klompus said.
Klompus rarely ventured down from the fifth-floor when he was with Lingle, and Linda Smith, the former senior policy adviser, handled most of the policy work, so he will have to get used to the daily grind of information trading that is the legislative process.
Klompus said he hopes to eventually return to his event marketing and consulting business.
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January 3rd, 2011 at 4:34 pm
Well if Spinnin’ Lenny manages to hang out long enough, may be he could even vest in the State retirement and health system (I assume he only had 8 years towards his service requirements for the Lingle Administration).
January 3rd, 2011 at 5:11 pm
Even Lenny Klompus can’t turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse, much less spin gold from straw. His spin was spun out early in Lingle’s second term (blaming others for the inevitable outcome of the Superferry mess, insulting parents of furloughed children, you name it). Maybe it won’t matter to Ward who is so far out in la-la land (remember him fawning all over Dog Chapman with a reso and floor presentation, only to have Dog humiliate himself by using the “N”-word?) that up is down, down is up, and the difference between the two is irrelevant (as are the House Republicans).
January 3rd, 2011 at 7:53 pm
I think Klompus is more a PR guy than a policy guy. But I guess the local GOP has settled into a routine of not accomplishing anything, beyond crafting talking points for attacking the Democrats and feeding discontent among their troops. Gotta keep the GOP base riled up.
Cynthia Thielen appears to be the only Republican legislator who actually proposes things in the hope they might be adopted and improve the conditions we are facing. The others, if they open their mouths, are too comfortable being oppositionists.
That strikes me as both cheap and lazy.
Professional poseurs. They should return to the private sector if they do not want to do an honest days productive work.
January 4th, 2011 at 10:16 am
At least Rep. Ward’s speeches will have some wit to them.
January 6th, 2011 at 1:49 am
You are vested after five years so Klompus is vested.