Kitzhaber appoints Grier’s husband

2/24/2011: Last June Melinda Grier’s husband Jerry Lidz resigned as Oregon Solicitor General over the AG’s investigation of his wife, which concluded she’d provided UO with “deficient legal representation”. Guess I’m not the only one who thinks she took the fall for Frohnmayer. Kitzhaber has now put Lidz back on the state payroll, with an interim job heading some minor state agency. Grier has an adjunct job teaching law at UO until the end of the term, but her pay continues until the end of June. Maybe Kitzhaber will give her a job too, and save us a little money.