Judd Gregg Could Be Picked for Commerce as Soon as Monday
January 31, 2009 11:48 AM
An Obama administration official tells ABC News that Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., is now the leading candidate for Commerce Secretary and could be announced as soon as Monday.
Gregg would be at least the third Republican to join the Obama administration, joining the ranks of Transportation Secretary and former GOP congressman Ray LaHood and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. (The political party of National Security Advisor and retired Army General Jim Jones is unclear, though he is a longtime friend of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and appeared at a McCain campaign event.)
Gregg’s announcement, while making the Obama administration more bipartisan, would likely have the opposite effect on the U.S. Senate. New Hampshire’s Democratic governor John Lynch could appoint a Democrat to replace Gregg, thus delivering to Democrats their elusive 60-vote majority, empowering them to stave off Republican filibusters.
Gregg, a former governor, is up for re-election in 2010 in a state that has been trending Democratic for the last few years.
- jpt
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/01/judd-gregg-coul.html
Could...COULD? Who are they trying to kid?
Then Reid will seat Franken. It’s SO frustrating to see us become a 1-party nation.
“Gregg, a former governor, is up for re-election in 2010 in a state that has been trending Democratic for the last few years.”
It’s happened in New Hampshire, Washington, Oregon and surely other places. Blue-staters screw up their own places so bad they move out, then try to make their new homes into the screwed up places they came from!
In the above cases it’s NY and MA to NH and VT, and Californians to the Pacific Northwest.