Remember Jonathan Miller?
He was appointed by Gov. Steve Beshear to a big job in state government in 2007. This came after he, along with running mate Irv Maze, dropped out of the governor’s race and threw their support to Beshear in May. Now he’s the state’s finance secretary, and Maze got appointed to a cushy judge’s spot.
Miller announced today that he’s quitting government, joining a law firm and starting up a blog called The Recovering Politician.
Here’s how Miller expressed it in a release today:
I am very excited to announce that on April Fools’ Day, I will launch “The Recovering Politician”: a Web site dedicated to civil discourse on the issues of the day — from politics, to sports, to pop culture, to faith, to whatever happens to be on my iPad at any particular moment. I’m especially pleased to report that I’ve already recruited 18 other “recovering politicians” as regular contributors to the site, each of them offering their own opinions on a wide range of issues, from the unique perspective of former officials with experience in the arena, but who are now freed from the biases and political pressures of incumbency.
This doesn’t surprise me, or anyone who’s been around Miller. He’s the author of a book, The Compassionate Community. I’ve been in touch with him several times in the last year about joining us here at LouisvilleKY.com, and Miller always told me he was interested, but that he wasn’t ready yet.
Of course, I know something about convincing writers to post on blogs, and given the nature of former politicians, I can assure you that Miller’s got a tough task ahead in managing those 18 unnamed recruits. But the result can be a truly amazing forum for news consumers and people who want to know what’s really going on behind the scenes.
So we’ll see. And I wish him well.
