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Obama taps Ted Kennedy’s widow for USPS board
Associated Press ^ | Feb 12, 2014 6:46 PM EST

Posted on 02/12/2014 4:08:34 PM PST by Olog-hai

The White House says President Barack Obama is nominating Vicki Kennedy to the board of governors for the U.S. Postal Service. […]

Kennedy’s nomination must be confirmed by the Senate. The board of governors chooses the postmaster general and controls the postal service’s spending, planning and policies. …

(Excerpt) Read more at hosted.ap.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: boardofgovernors; obama; usps; vickikennedy

1 posted on 02/12/2014 4:08:34 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Her expertise is exactly what? Oh, I forgot - she writes checks for the DummycRat Party. When she gets paid, the DNC gets paid.
2 posted on 02/12/2014 4:12:19 PM PST by Chgogal (Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
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To: Olog-hai
They've been trying to shine her up to run for something for a while. But I don't think she wants to run; she wants to be annointed with a position.
3 posted on 02/12/2014 4:14:53 PM PST by Paine in the Neck (Our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor)
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To: Chgogal

Yep! All of them try their best to keep the money flowing in their political circle!


4 posted on 02/12/2014 4:14:57 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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To: Olog-hai
i guess being married to a corrupt fat bloated tub of guts is all the qualifications one needs these days, if you are a RAT, specially if that corrupt fat bloated tub of guts you were married to was a kennedy...
5 posted on 02/12/2014 4:32:39 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Olog-hai

Another nation-wide search I see....


6 posted on 02/12/2014 4:42:03 PM PST by mowowie
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To: Olog-hai

The Obama Regime. Nepotism out the ying yang.


7 posted on 02/12/2014 4:43:36 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (ObamaCare. The "global warming" of healthcare plans.)
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To: Olog-hai

Ted Kennedy’s Waitress. Maybe she’ll serve drinks to the rest of the board?


8 posted on 02/12/2014 4:44:25 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Olog-hai
The USPS is in serious trouble...

Thankfully, Obama picked a real business leader with a proven track record of fixing outdated business models that are losing billions of dollars...

That guy Obama sure can pick winners...

He really IS the smartest POTUS ever...with a perfect pant crease...

9 posted on 02/12/2014 4:48:37 PM PST by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Olog-hai

what’s her claim to fame other than holding Teddy’s hair as he puked after an all night drinking session?


10 posted on 02/12/2014 4:56:31 PM PST by llevrok (F the government)
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To: Chgogal

“Her expertise is exactly what? “

Same as Caroline Kennedy!


11 posted on 02/12/2014 4:59:09 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Olog-hai

Victoria Reggie Kennedy

Reggie’s immediate family was wealthy because of money from her mother’s family’s interest in the Bunny Bread baking concern in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was raised in a family that was constantly involved in politics and campaigns. At the 1956 Democratic National Convention, her father helped deliver his state for John F. Kennedy’s unsuccessful bid for the vice-presidential nomination. Over time, John Kennedy developed a close social relationship with the family. Her mother cast the only Louisiana delegate vote for Ted Kennedy at the 1980 Democratic National Convention

Vicki was a summer intern in his Senate office’s mailroom the year following her college graduation. They began dating after meeting again in June 1991 at a party celebrating her parents’ 40th wedding anniversary.

She is president and co-founder of Common Sense about Kids and Guns, an advocacy group begun in 1999 which seeks to reduce gun deaths and injuries to children in the U.S. She is a member of the board of trustees of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, and has served on the board of Stop Handgun Violence in Boston. She is a board member of Catholic Democrats and authored the preface for their 2009 book, The Catholic Case for Obama


12 posted on 02/12/2014 5:05:35 PM PST by kcvl
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The already frayed relationship between Vicki Kennedy and her late husband’s children is at the breaking point, with the two sons growing increasingly convinced that she is jeopardizing the senator’s legacy and mishandling the creation of the $71 million institute that bears his name.

Much of the conflict centers around the construction and governance of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the US Senate, a project that faces potential cost overruns, according to a close family friend who was authorized by some family members to speak on their behalf, but who declined to be named.

Edward M. Kennedy Jr. and Patrick Kennedy, the senator’s children, believe their father’s widow is badly bungling the efforts to create what their father had hoped would be a monument to his storied career in the US Senate, said the friend, whose account was confirmed by another close family associate.

They believe she is depending too much on a small clique of the senator’s friends and supporters, a group that lacks any figures with national stature, prominent Republicans, or even a US senator.

They are also upset that the institute’s board has yet to fulfill their request for a full financial accounting of the ongoing construction project and for strategic planning documents detailing how they plan to operate the institute.

“The children feel totally left out,’’ said the family friend authorized to speak to the Globe. “Vicki totally controls the board.’’

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2012/07/22/kennedys_widow_sons_at_odds_over_legacy/#sthash.aEZiH5aG.dpuf


13 posted on 02/12/2014 5:08:03 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Olog-hai

Why did the USPS Board want Obama to tap THAT? Sickos.


14 posted on 02/12/2014 5:22:15 PM PST by dangus
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To: dangus

He would have refused any such request once he found out it was Victoria not Victor.


15 posted on 02/12/2014 5:27:25 PM PST by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: Olog-hai

Incest.


16 posted on 02/12/2014 5:34:53 PM PST by MrChips (Ad sapientiam pertinet aeternarum rerum cognitio intellectualis - St. Augustine)
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To: Olog-hai

The cronyism/nepotism in this administration makes Grant’s administration look clean as a whistle and almost rises to the level of LBJ’s.


17 posted on 02/12/2014 5:59:32 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Chgogal

Ask any Democrat, “It’s all about gettin paid”. Preferably by the taxpayers


18 posted on 02/12/2014 6:06:42 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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