Former U.S. Rep. Bill Janklow confirmed Friday that he is working as a consultant with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., to fight a controversial expansion plan by the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad that would increase rail traffic past the world-renowned clinic.
Former Congresscritter & Governor Bill Yanklow Janklow has run a political stop sign and knocked the economic development of the state that he formerly claimed to serve into the ditch along the side of the tracks.
Janklow denied that he was trying to kill the project.
Sure has a funny way of supporting it.
He also slammed Schieffer and DM&E for “running roughshod over people”…
Excuse me? A comment about “RUNNING OVER PEOPLE”? This has GOT to be one of the most surrealistically unfortunate uses of a phrase that the Chief has run across in a LONG time!!!!!
“I’ve always believed in the concept of this project. I have never believed in the integrity of Kevin Schieffer,” Janklow said.
So what’s THIS about? Never let a chance to let a policy issue interfere with a chance to get in some personal payback – especially when it goes along with the chance to get a cash payback at the same time.
The Chief has had a lot of respect for a lot of what former Gov. Bill accomplished in his long history of public life. It’s sad to see it look like a baseball pitcher trying for one more season, after he’s lost his stuff. Sic transit gloria mundi.