Chad Nodland’s Unethical Source For Workforce Safety Information

Chad Nodland, North Dakota’s other political blogger, has gotten a few people’s attention with his posts on the North Dakota Workforce Safety & Insurance issue. And I’ll grant that he’s been quick to get a lot of information on that issue, and has been persistent (though largely wrong) in his posts on it. I, personally, no longer read his site as he is a dishonest person who routinely deletes posts that include inaccurate information and removes comments that are inconvenient for his agenda.
I have little time for such childish nonsense.
But what’s interesting is that Nodland doesn’t mention someone who is undoubtedly one of his best sources of information: His wife, Jennifer S.N. Clark, who is counsel to the state legislature’s Worker’s Compensation Review Committee. People like Rep. George Keiser, a frequent target of Nodland’s invective, sit on that committee and have no doubt confided information in Nodland’s wife who is, again, their committee’s legal counsel.
Is this not a rather unethical situation? What information has passed from Jennifer Clark to Chad Nodland that shouldn’t have? If Nodland is to engage in public advocacy on the WSI issue is it not his duty to divulge his personal interests in the matter? If Jennifer Clark is to continue as counsel to the legislative committee charged with overseeing Worker’s Compensation issues, shouldn’t she have divulged her husband’s advocacy? And, to be perfectly honest, removed herself from her position so as to avoid the appearance of impropriety?
One would think.
I think some serious questions need to be asked about Chad Nodland and Jennifer Clark’s involvement in the WSI issue, because there is certainly an appearance of impropriety there. I’m told that many in the legislature were unaware of Clark’s connection to Nodland, and upon learning of it weren’t happy.
Let’s hope the situation is corrected.

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  • http://Array Cat in the Hat

    Jennifer is in the catbird seat for workers comp. She is Keiser’s lawyer for work comp issues and she is the go-between for legislative requests and agencies. All she has to do is tell an agency she has a legislative request for public information and the agency has to fill it. She never has to say who wants it or why, just that she wants it. So how many times has she asked for information under this protection of anonymity and just handed it over to her husband for his use? What about how the State Auditor’s office has gotten in bed with Chad too? Chad has a standing –basically unlimited– open records request with the Auditor’s office for WSI stuff and just fill away. And they fill away with lightening speed. His requests go from request to post in an hour or so routinely. Gordy, Jason, Ron and the gang have a hate campaign on for WSI because they wound not just lie there and take it from them. Let’s also talk about his little Cretan Moles in WSI who immediately send things over to Chad once management updates them (even though it is against WSI policy to do so and they signed the policy handbook acknowledging that they knew it was wrong). Still, these Cretan’s have so little self worth and self respect that they just have to make themselves feel important by trying to destroy others, so off they send it. I hope that some day WSI management gets the stones to do a system check of outgoing e-mails and internet activity and asks these lowlifes to leave. Hey, maybe that would be a nice open records request … may I please have all the e-mail sent to the auditor’s office and the north decoder as well as internet activity for the same …???!!! WSI will never get better with a cancer like this living in its veins. Time for some chemo baby!!!!

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  • Troy_Pineri

    he is a dishonest person who routinely deletes posts that include inaccurate information and removes comments that are inconvenient for his agenda.

    That isn’t true, and you know it.

    I have little time for such childish nonsense.

    Instead you post about beauty pagaents.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    Chad most certainly deleted a post about Jim Poolman after some inaccuracies in it were pointed out in the comments.

    And Chad has deleted my comments in the past as well.

    So it is true, Troy. Whether or not you know it is none of my concern. I know it.

    But that’s not the issue here. Chad and his wife’s unethical arrangement on WSI is.

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