I’ve already written about how Mr. Hope and Change’s new pick for Commerce Secretary Gary Locke was involved with giving special favors to his brother’s company including a lucrative state contract. Yesterday, Michelle wrote a detailed piece about Gary Locke’s problems regarding questionable political contributions to his gubernatorial campaign.
Now, former Democrat Gov. Gary Locke — a lawyer for international firm Davis, Wright, and Tremaine who specializes in China — is rumored to be the next nominee for the post. The MSM is pulling for him. WaPo writes: “Locke is regarded as a safe choice by senior officials in the Obama administration given his long history in public life, his strait-laced reputation and his bipartisan governing credentials.” Wishful thinking? Willful cluelessness? Probably a bit of both.
I covered Gary Locke when I worked at the Seattle Times. I dealt with his campaign and gubernatorial staffs. “Strait-laced” is not the adjective I’d use for my dealings with him and his people.
In response to my columns pressing Locke on his close ties to campaign finance crook John Huang, the governor’s office first stonewalled. His standard Democrat smokescreen? Play the race card and play the victim.
As they say, read the whole thing. This guy is certainly not the squeaky clean nominee that Obama is hoping (no pun intended) that he is. Which again begs the question of why Obama doesn’t seem to know that the people he’s nominating to these high level cabinet positions are crooks. What’s up with this guy?
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