Obama Administration Nails One: Stan Gruszynski Appointed USDA Rural Development Director for Wisconsin

The Obama Administration is finally getting around to filling some very important federal jobs that have big impacts at the state level.  Stan Gruszynski is a great choice for US Department of Agriculture Director for Rural Development for Wisconsin. Gruszynski should be a great help in funneling federal dollars to worthwhile rural development projects in Wisconsin. For over 25 years, his work at UW-Stevens Point and in the legislature has been significant for the people of rural and urban Wisconsin.

Gruszynski is currently the director of Rural Leadership and Community Development for the Global Environmental Management Center at the University of Wisconsin's Stevens Point College of Natural Resources. Prior to that position, he served as the Director of Public Affairs for USDA Rural Development in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, for seven years. While at Rural Development, he promoted rural program initiatives and fostered working relationships with community groups, Indian Tribes and underserved populations. Gruszynski was also appointed acting State Director for several months in 2003. From 1984-1994, he represented the 71st district in the Wisconsin State Assembly and served on both the rural affairs and natural resources committees.

Back in the eighties in the Assembly, Gruszynski was often a guy who stood up in the Democratic Caucus and argued for doing the right thing instead of the expedient alternate. He usually lost those arguments, but he never stopped making them.

Good for the Obama Administration. Good news for Wisconsin.

- Barry Orton

Disclosure by Paul: Barry is not aware of all of the relationships between Energies Direct LLC a company that designs and builds biodigesters and in which I am a part owner and the USDA. It is possible that the Wisconsin USDA office will make decisions on grant appliations that our customers submit or in some way make decisions about biodigesters in Wisconsin that impacts our company.

It is my intention to post on this subject in the future.

Comments

[Brian]

That's right. Obama has nailed one. Only one.

Did he nail it with Geithner?
LaHood?
Duncan?
Gensler?
Gates?
Panetta?
Not to mention his continuation of so many of Bush's foreign and domestic policies. I have a growing list of about 25---just the major ones; the ones that really matter.