The Frank Bailey hangover: Is he moving out?

According to legislative sources, the governor has pardoned both Frank Bailey and Ivy Frye and plans on transferring them out of the governor's office over to the Alaska Industrial Development Export Authority (AIDEA).

Both Bailey and Frye have figured large in the operations of the governor's office and both have created more baggage for this administration than Louis Vittone.

Frye has held no fewer than four different positions since she was hired after helping on Palin's campaign back in 2006. Frye was originally in charge of Board's & Commissions until she made a mess out of that job and then she was transferred to the Department of Administration. That job lasted until the commissioner couldn't handle it anymore after Frye reportedly told her that she only reports to the governor. Then, Frye was moved into a position entitled special assistant to the governor, where among other things, Frye worked on ways to get around public disclosure laws by using her Blackberry.  

Bailey quickly emerged as the governor's incompetent hatchet man. He became famous for lying both to the public and the press when he stated in July that he had nothing to do with trying to get Palin's brother in law fired. Three weeks later, Governor Palin, red-faced, released a tape recorded phone call that showed him trying to get Palin's brother in-law fired.

But more recently, Bailey was slapped on the wrist by a special investigator for sending emails to help a political contributor of Governor Palin's get a state job.

Those emails were described as "troubling" by the investigator and it was recommended that Bailey take an ethics course.

In a stinging editorial last month, the Anchorage Daily News demanded the firing of Bailey. But so far, Palin seems comfortable shifting the dead and dumb wood in her administration over to the state's economic development authority.

That seems odd. After all, just how much experience does either one of these people have in economic development related matters. Frye seems to be unable to keep a job and Bailey seems unable to do anything remotely honest.   

All in all, the quintessential incompetent political patronage appointments by the governor.

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