FullOfQuestions comment on the “An Open Letter Regarding the EMU Chief Government Relations Search” reminded me of an email that Geoffrey “Geoff” Larcom sent around the other day. Remember those heady days of the Chief Government Relations position, the one that was going to replace Freeman Hendrix in that job? Well, that’s turned into a search for the “Executive Director, Governmental & Community Relations.”
Here’s the email Larcom sent:
The Eastern Michigan University community is invited to open campus forums for the finalists for the position of Executive Director, Governmental & Community Relations. The forums will take place on Friday, Feb. 12 in Room 205, Welch Hall.
The schedule is as follows:
10 – 11 a.m. – Leigh Greden, attorney, Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone; former city councilman, Ann Arbor
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. – Eunice Jeffries, director of civic and community affairs, Michigan Secretary of State
Greden has a kind of interesting “track record.” Remember that mini-scandal last year where Ann Arbor city council members were sending snarky email messages during meetings? A simple google search turned up an old mlive story, “Ann Arbor City Council Member Leigh Greden apologizes to constituents; Christopher Taylor says comment taken out of sequence.” It probably cost him re-election to the city council. Anyway, I’m not quite sure what his EMU connection is or isn’t.
Jeffries seems a somewhat more traditional candidate for this kind of job in that her experience seems to be with stuff at the state level, though I didn’t find anything particularly interesting/unusual about her through a Google search.
Anyway, I can’t make it this Friday, but if anyone does go and want to report back here, feel free.
