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Pete Buttigieg is headed to DOT s top spot, where despite his thin transportation résumé, the smooth-talking former heartland mayor could help President-elect Joe Biden sell Congress on a massive job-creating investment in infrastructure that would also attempt to blunt the effects of climate change.
Buttigieg will arrive at the Department of Transportation s Navy Yard headquarters with little experience dealing with the various appendages of official Washington, but he ll hardly be the first person in that position. The White House could follow the mold set by former DOT Secretary Anthony Foxx, another former mayor, who appointed as his chief of staff Sarah Feinberg, a savvy operator who knew Washington, D.C., and helped Foxx hit the ground running.
Civil War on the Left (76): Biffing Biden
I’m really thinking I should rename this series “Biden Agonistes,” because no sooner do the progressive identitarians take down Mary Nichols to be head of the EPA than Black Lives Matter comes along and oppose Mayor Pete to be Secretary of Transportation:
Leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement have come out against President-elect Joe Biden’s decision to nominate former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg for Secretary of Transportation, recalling his struggles with minority voters. . .
In a statement Tuesday, South Bend-based Black Lives Matter leader Jordan Geiger said: “[W]e urge the rejection of our former mayor Pete Buttigieg, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and Rhode Island, Governor Gina Raimondo for Transportation Secretary or any other cabinet position.” . . .
Reagan: There s no escape from L.A. lockdown
Michael Reagan
I thought I was going to escape the madness of the L.A. Lockdown.
I thought if I rented a small weekend getaway house in a rural part of the state two hours north, my family and I could eat outdoors at a restaurant again, or at least leave our basement without a note from our tyrannical governor.
But I thought wrong.
I didn’t count on Gavin Newsom’s latest lockdown edict.
Two weeks ago life in empty and beautiful Santa Ynez Valley – where my father had his ranch and I’ve been visiting since 1974 – was about as normal and civilized as you could hope for these days.
The Straits Times
Biden s top interior pick Deb Haaland draws pushback from US House
US Representative Deb Haaland was just elected to her second term representing New Mexico in the House.PHOTO: X80003
PublishedDec 16, 2020, 8:06 am SGT
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