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Here's some more good news -- UPDATE

A report is out that Economic Development isn't the only agency with a change of leadership to come. There, we've reported, Maria Haley will be returning from Washington to replace Larry Walther. Gov. Beebe has now also confirmed that he won't be keeping Marcus Devine at the Department of Environmental Quality. A Beebe spokesman had nothing to offer us on Devine's successor.

UPDATE: Though Beebe's people won't talk, blog readers do. And one of them, a person who's almost never led us astray, says Teresa Marks, who was a deputy attorney general under A.G. Beebe, will be heading up DEQ.

Posted by Max Brantley on January 29, 2007 07:49 PM | Permalink

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Marks is an excellent appointment. Consumate pro. The hits keep on coming.

Posted by: okthen | January 29, 2007 09:07 PM

Looks like Beebe is once again repaying almost 20 years of favors. How is he going to repay the people who are already dead. I guess he'll give their kids a job.

Posted by: kilroy | January 29, 2007 10:04 PM

Word is those announcements will be made today, along with Suskie to the PSC.

Posted by: Sparky | January 30, 2007 07:30 AM

Are those grapes a little sour there Kilroy?

Posted by: Charles Eddie Smith | January 30, 2007 07:46 AM

Maria Haley will be a superb Director of Economic Development. She was instrumental in working with Dave Harrington in making the agency a model for other states to follow.......before Huckabee sent Barbara Pardue down as Director and basically destroyed the agency. Hopefully, Maria will be able to restore some its former credibility and vitality.

Posted by: Charles Eddie Smith | January 30, 2007 07:54 AM

"Maria Haley will be a superb Director of Economic Development."

Amen.

And anyone would be an improvement at AEDQ over State-Paid Chris Morris Campaign Manager Devine.

Posted by: Delphi | January 30, 2007 08:32 AM

I wouldn't say they are sour, but in all of his speeches Beebe promised new blood in the system. Now when I think of new blood, I don't think of some term limited buddy or someone who was here, went on to something better and is now back. Bringing in someone from the DC beltway, is about the same as Halter coming back after a 20 year hiatus. Beebe is about one step up the ladder from Huckabee and about as slimmey as Jason Willett.

Posted by: kilroy | January 30, 2007 09:24 AM

For 10 years, Huckabee has appointed sychophants whose only qualifications were being willing to kiss Huck's ass and tell him how he was God's gift to poliic and policy. Now, after having to watch the state stand still, Beebe is appointing people who have a clue.

Posted by: UncleEarl | January 30, 2007 10:18 AM

Spoken like a true Republican, Kilroy.

Posted by: Charles Eddie Smith | January 30, 2007 01:31 PM

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