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Bryan’s Chief of Staff, Karl Knight, Voted as WAPA’s Next Executive Director

Information reaching the Consortium is that Karl Knight, chief of staff to Governor Albert Bryan Jr., was approved as the next executive director of the Water and Power Authority. The vote for Mr. Knight was taken during the executive session of Thursday’s meeting of WAPA’s governing board. During a press conference earlier this month, Consortium journalists asked Governor Albert Bryan Jr. whether he was lobbying for the appointment of Mr. Knight to replace Mr. Smith as WAPA’s executive director, as reported by the Consortium.‌ The governor began his response by saying, “I don’t want to lose my chief of staff,” before launching into a passionate argument about why he felt Mr. Knight was ideally suited for the job, beginning with the urgency of the appointment. “I am not willing to wait for a search committee to do six months of searching to bring me another person that’s not familiar with what we’re dealing with,” Governor Bryan declared. He touted Mr. Knight’s “ability to deal with ...