Our post about Mike O’Connor being ‘cranky’ (which was also republished yesterday here at our partner MinnPost) was really about the fact that Governor Tim Pawlenty did an end-run-around the Minnesota Ultra High Speed Broadband Task Force and I sent an email to the Governor and staff to give them a heads-up on the post and, like I always do, ask for a comment.
At 4:09pm today I received a call from a young woman named “Jennifer” letting me know that “we received your email but the Governor doesn’t respond to blogs.” I asked to quote her by name but she wouldn’t do so “as it’s our policy not to give out last names for security reasons.”
Besides expecting there would be no comment or engagement and finding the “security” comment sort of cute, I realized that once he’s a former governor running for the presidency, it’s likely he’ll suddenly get religion about social media and his campaign staff will fall all over themselves engaging “bloggers”.