Widely respected for his work in the nonprofit sector, Krichbaum will assume a role that ranking business leaders had urged Granholm to fill with a seasoned business executive who could help her make management decisions quickly, streamline government and establish sound business practices in state government because she couldn't.

"He's talented in the venue he is in," Cynthia Pasky, CEO of Strategic Staffing Solutions Inc., says of Krichbaum. "But he's not a businessman."

And he's not the kind of workout guy that business leaders were envisioning for Granholm, whose five years as Michigan's CEO have shown a tendency to study more than act, to avoid conflict more than confront the special interest groups whose needs should be secondary to reforming the structure of Michigan's government.

Not exactly confidence inspiring.  Maybe this story will offer better:

Krichbaum, 65, an ordained Methodist minister, currently serves as president and CEO of the Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion, a nonprofit, human relations organization that works with business, universities and government to eliminate discrimination and racism. He also served as senior vice president for fund development at WTVS-TV56 in Detroit and was director of the recreation and parks department under former Detroit Mayor Coleman Young.

Paul Hillegonds, former chief of Detroit Renaissance and now senior vice president at DTE, said the business community "is probably confused" about the choice of Krichbaum, "given the signals the governor sent out that she was looking for someone with business experience.

So wait, I don't get it.  Why this guy?  Why choose Krichbaum?  Wait just a minute.  What is it they always say on Law and Order and any other crime procedural worth it's salt?  Follow the money.  Aaaaand bingo.

According to the Michigan Bureau of Elections the good Reverend and his wife are big-time donors to... wait for it, wait, wait... Jennifer Granholm!  In fact, they've recently given her over $2,000.  That's not to mention the thousand bucks they've ponied up for the Governor's BFF Hillary Clinton or the thousands of dollars they've given the Michigan Democrat Party and various other lefty candidates including Steve Tobocman, David Bonior, Debbie Stabenow and John Kerry.

The man may not have one of the credentials the administration claimed they were looking for in the governor's new stand-in but darn it all if they didn't find a party loyalist with leftist politics, economic theory and an employment history based on making job providers' lives more difficult, not easier.

That said, I wish him well.  Really, I do.  We're paying the man $136,000 a year.  I'd rather not burn that kind of cash.  Though something tells me that'd be just as effective.