Ted Sturdevant has been named Governor Elect Inslee’s Policy and Legislative Aide. No news yet on his replacement at Ecology. This has been seen as a bad move by some I’ve talked to in the environmental community, as a number of people were not impressed by Sturdevant’s stance on issues such as the Jefferson County Commissioners wanting to ban net pens in the county. Putting him in a policy role seems to be just reinforcing behavior that was not well received by Democratic loyalists in the trenches. Sturdevant not only was not interested in hearing that there could be any problem with net pens but that there was no justification that his scientists could find with the industry. Given that, it will be very interesting to see whom Inslee nominates to this critical post.