Posted on 11/11/2011 5:10:26 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Obama campaign adviser wanted Steven Chu out
By: Patrick Reis November 11, 2011 06:10 PM EST
Months before Solyndra’s collapse, a former high-ranking official in President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign called for Steven Chu’s ouster, saying the Energy secretary lacked the chops for turning green technology into green jobs.
“Secretary Chu is a wonderful and brilliant man, but he is not perfect for the other critical DOE mission: deploying existing technologies at scale and creating jobs,” Dan Carol, the research director of the 2008 Obama campaign who now works as director of Multi-State Initiatives for Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, wrote in a February email to White House counselor Peter Rouse that was released Friday by a government source. At the time, Carol was a clean technology fellow for the New Democratic Network.
Carol cautioned that the new secretary should have political distance from the administration, lest it get “caught up in the wave of GOP attacks that are surely coming over Solyndra and other inside DOE deals that have gone to Obama donors and have underperformed.”
He conceded Chu could stay with an altered mission and also suggested the secretary be moved over to lead the department’s network of national laboratories.
But Carol was adamant that Deputy Secretary Dan Poneman, Chu’s second-in-command, and Henry Kelly, who oversees the department’s renewable energy office, had to go.
“At a minimum, Poneman and Kelly need to leave," Carol wrote, saying the pair was “scaring away the talent we need.”
The plan seems to have gone nowhere, but not before Rouse sent Carol’s housecleaning suggestions up the chain of command.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
wanted Chu out ?
Newt Gingrich on Solyndra..”Speaking at a fundraising event, Gingrich said Chu and the Department of Energy should be on the hook for solar company Solyndra, which received a $535 million DOE loan only to later declare bankruptcy.
“As president, I would have fired Sec. Chu for so grossly mismanaging taxpayer dollars,” Gingrich said. “Furthermore, to protect taxpayers, I would have blocked any additional loan guarantees until a full investigation had taken place into the mismanagement and potential corruption in the loan for Solyndra.”
The DOE secretary has come under increasing fire for his role in Solyndra, as has the White House. However, White House press secretary Jay Carney recently said Chu has “the full confidence” of President Obama. The comment rankled Gingrich.
“The president says he has full confidence in Secretary Chu despite this scandal,” Gingrich continued. “What kind of confidence can we have in a president who refuses to hold his cabinet officers accountable?”
CHU IS A PHD.... Not too smart.... for a nuclear scientist.
“caught up in the wave of GOP attacks that are surely coming over Solyndra and other inside DOE deals that have gone to Obama donors and have underperformed.”
That statement alone is an admission DOE was funneling funds to companies tied to Obama donors.
Steven Chu was a great Nobel Prize-winning physicist. But he’s been an abysmally-poor Cabinet member who has done nearly everything possible to destroy jobs, when more jobs are desperately needed. Becoming an obamabot made that horrible transformation possible.
Dr. Chu should resign and go back to his university. Then he should work to get his mind and heart obama-free and Soros-free, and swear off politics for a long, long time. Then he could become a great researcher once again.
I have similar prescriptions for Dr. Francis Collins and Elizabeth Warren.
“That statement alone is an admission DOE was funneling funds to companies tied to Obama donors”
Ditto. I thought that was the most important sentence in the excerpt.
Zero’s admin is starting to look for fall guys on their scandals as the only way to keep him in office for another term.
So Chu was underperforming and he is the problem (so it is just bad loans and not money laudering). Zero is supposed to be above it all.
Interesting however that Holder is not (at least yet) the problem with Fast and Furious.
Sure that’s why Steven Chu is still in.
Next they'll be "painting the roses red."
What Chu talking about?
Thanks Sub-Driver.
Most Americans want nobama and ALL his minions OUT!
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