Too bad
We lose good leadership because of this
Cause you want some minimum-wage grocery clerk to serve as Deputy Commerce Secretary. /s
I’ll bet dollars to doughnuts that the Chicago papers (and the Obama regime itself) didn’t expect the same degree of financial purity when Obama appointed Penny Pritzker (another Chicago-area billionaire) Secretary of Commerce. And that despite the fact that Pritzker had a checkered (to put it mildly) financial past in terms of her involvement in the Superior Bank scandal.
This is what is wrong with rigged “conflict of interest” definitions !
Someone who owns a baseball team can’t past muster because of their investments - even if the potential for self-enrichment is really remote.
But some influence peddling “lobbyist” or fake “gov’t relations VP” at some crony capitalism corp. skates right thru the revolving door because their wealth is human capital (which they build up massively with a gov’t job) as well as the ability to do “favours” for their future employers.
Human capital and crony connections to future employers/clients is the very worst of the DC Swamp, and targetting it should be Job One for Trump.
Career politicians made the rules so that only career politicians would be eligible. God forbid we should have successful business people bring their acumen to government. And rob career statists of employment advancement opportunities.