Disneyland manager may be appointed to lead CalOSHA

Such an appointment would be seriously stupid, considering that he can't even keep the people at his own park safe!!

As long as he severs his ties with Disney I don't see any conflict of interest. When you need someone, you go out and look for the most qualified people that you can find. Sometimes you find them in business. Sometimes you find them in government. Occasionally you find them in academia.

In this particular case I know nothing about the qualifications of the individual involved or what the rest of the field of job candidates looks like.

True..."As long as he severs his ties with Disney"...but DisneyLand isn't exactly the safest park in the country right now, is it?

All things considered, I'm not sure our government (i.e., US and most states) would know a conflict of interest if they saw one...Halliburton, anyone? ;)

Top government officials certainly know about the Haliburton conflict of interest and are busily profiting from it.

I always wondered how it was OK that the guy who was CEO at the time of fraudulent SEC filings isn't held accountable.

I think it's because white-collar crime is as common as sliced bread. The reason that Martha Stewart and Leona Helmsley got to "pay the price", so to speak, is because they drew attention to it...;)

For every white collar crime that gets prosecuted, there's THOUSANDS of others that never even get a casual inspection...