Posted on 01/05/2009 10:35:14 PM PST by llevrok
SEATTLE -- Gov. Chris Gregoire has scheduled a news conference for Tuesday morning that's shrouded in secrecy, but KIRO 7 Eyewitness News has learned that she will not announce that she's joining the Obama Administration.
The governor's office said Monday that Gregoire is out of state. She canceled an Olympia speaking engagement set for Tuesday, and she will make an announcement Tuesday at 10 a.m. via satellite to local reporters.
A number of bloggers speculated the governor would be named as president-elect Obama's Commerce Secretary after New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson withdrew from the running. An Obama spokesman, Robert Gibbs, denied that.
Representatives of the governor's office have said she would not be taking any position with the new administration.
The governor was on a flight from Sea-Tac to Ronald Reagan National Airport on Sunday, a spokesman for Whatcom County told the Bellingham Herald.
Joe Bates, who is in Maryland for training paid by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told the Herald he was on the same flight and sat several seats away from the governor.
Actually....that thought crossed my mind....I never think she looks very healthy...
she looks ill always has .... v dark circles under her eyes
Anyone see the broadcast?
That thought crossed my mind, too. Flying to Reagan Airport to go to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda?
-PJ
More likely to go to a closer cancer center,,Mayo, HOuston, Sloan.
I have cancer and people said I had never looked as good as I did the day I was diagnosed. Sometimes you can’t tell by looking. Especially Ovarian Cancer.
Ladies listen up,,read up on the subtle symptoms and don’t get fooled. It is advanced when diagnosed because docs miss it and patients do to,,no big symptoms like weight loss. In fact you gain weight and your waist gets bigger and all you feel is fatigue.
Darn it! They found her in Iraq. Even worse news is that she will not be leaving our state for a position in the Obama administration. Oh well we might survive another four years.
What is funny - but not surprising - is that a bunch of news reporters are whining that her staff lied to them about her whereabouts (saw this on orbusmax.com). As if they could have kept a secret!!
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