UPDATE: Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey cites Jake Tapper’s blogpost Evidently the PEBO transition team is whining about Richardson being less than “forthcoming” … making ‘em look bad. Ah… it seems once a “victim”, *always* a “victim”.
All you unemployed? There’s a new commerce secretary opening up in Obama’s cabinet. NM Gov. Bill Richardson is bowing out due to an ongoing investigation of a major campaign contributor getting a juicy state contract.
Obama, no doubt happy to have something… *anything*… to say that doesn’t require the “one President at a time” excuse, issued this statement:
“It is with deep regret that I accept Governor Bill Richardson’s decision to withdraw his name for nomination as the next Secretary of Commerce,” the president-elect said in a statement released early this afternoon. “Governor Richardson is an outstanding public servant and would have brought to the job of Commerce Secretary and our economic team great insights accumulated through an extraordinary career in federal and state office.
“It is a measure of his willingness to put the nation first that he has removed himself as a candidate for the Cabinet in order to avoid any delay in filling this important economic post at this critical time.”
Ah judgment… Well let’s see if PEBO can do better on his second try. Wonder if any more will fall in the Blago wake?
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