FYI — OMalleywatch.com has this post today on the possibility that Maryland’s attorney general, Douglas F. Gansler, could be tapped for some other government job “within the next two weeks.” Gansler’s office, though, is downplaying the possibility of any (imminent) change of scenery.

“It’s safe to say the attorney general will be here for quite a while,” spokeswoman Raquel Guillory says.

Gansler was, of course, one of the new president’s earliest backers in Maryland and co-chaired his campaign here. Back in December, Gansler said he would participate in the transition as an advisor to the Justice Department, but his political director “played down rumors that the attorney general himself was interested in becoming a U.S. attorney,” according to Politicker.com.

Gansler himself was even more direct in an interview with The Daily Record last April, when senators Hillary Clinton and John Edwards were still in the race for the nomination. Asked what an Obama presidency would mean for his own career, here’s what the AG said:

“Nothing. Makes me proud. And it really does. … There aren’t any jobs, for example, that would be attractive to me or anything like that.”

Still, notions of attractiveness can change over the better part of a year (or should I say, “quite a while”?). Why, another year would take us to 2010, an election year for the offices of both the attorney general and governor…

Ah, but that’s a blog for another day.

Barbara Grzincic, Managing Editor/Law