Monday, February 23, 2009
Locke
I notice that Gary Locke is the next nominee for Obama's Commerce Dept. He served two terms as Wash Gov, and served competently enough. He was somewhat puzzling ... around the start of his second term, he obviously lost interest in the job for reasons that were never made public. He carried on through the term, more or less "phoning it in", which was good enough for an undramatic state like Washington with reliable tax sources and fairly clean politics. There was no indication of scandal. I always wondered if he was simply too sane to be a politician, or if something external (like family trouble) was distracting him.
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