Editor of journal critical of welfare still has DPW job - Philly.com

Editor of journal critical of welfare still has DPW job - Philly.com:

INQUIRER HARRISBURG BUREAU HARRISBURG - A controversial adviser to Welfare Secretary Gary Alexander is still working for the state and will do so for an indefinite period, despite last week's announcement that he had resigned.

Last week, officials said Robert W. Patterson, a special assistant to Alexander, had quit his $104,470 position as The Inquirer was preparing to publish a story about his outside role as editor of a conservative, faith-based journal.

In announcing Patterson's exit, the Corbett administration distanced itself from views expressed in the journal, which has criticized key welfare programs administered by the Department of Public Welfare and offered opinions that women should be stay-at-home mothers and opposing birth control - as well as musings on how condom use could rob women of reported mood-enhancing benefits of chemicals in semen.

If you haven't read Thomas Frank's "The Wrecking Crew," this could be straight out of it. Hire someone who detests a government agency and especially its constituency, and put them in positions of power within that organization to make it weak and ineffectual, then decry it for being weak and ineffectual.

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