[bcsco]

I have no problem getting rid of the commission system. But I’ll be damned if I won’t hold governors responsible for their decisions until that happens. We elect these people to office based on expectations. And those expectations, IMO, aren’t negotiable.

[muawiyah]

The Commission gave him three tip top people (based on their credentials). Now if Mitch had undertaken a bit of waterboarding he might well have discovered how utterly alien the candidates were.

I don't know if he can reject the candidates and demand more of them, but like any job selection where you depend on a review committee's judgment you will quite regularly get a parade of people whose real abilities lie somewhere else than in the job you are interviewing them for.

I think elections are much better. They help widen the electorate.