A tipster raises a good question: What was Senator Harris McDowell doing accompanying Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart to the quarterly meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners?
It is well known that, at best, Harris McDowell is a mentor to and former employer of Commissioner Stewart; at worst, the real power behind the Insurance Commissioner’s office. If the latter is reality, it is really revealing (and unwise) for this picture to be posted on the IC website (a view behind the Wizard’s curtain, if you will), but we know why he is there. If the former is the case, what business does a state senator have at a conference for a Insurance Commissioners?