Posted on 03/23/2021 3:16:09 AM PDT by cotton1706
President Joe Biden reportedly yanked another nomination to his administration after moderate Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska objected to the pick, Politico reported on Monday.
Biden had nominated Elizabeth Klein, a former Obama administration official, to be the deputy secretary of the Department of the Interior.
Biden had previously pulled the nomination of liberal think tank president Neera Tanden for the directorship of the Office of Management and Budget earlier in March. Tanden's nomination was tanked after several senators objected to "toxic" tweets she had sent denigrating some Republicans and also Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
Murkowski had reportedly opposed the nomination of Klein to the Interior Department because the senator is seeking to expand the oil and gas industry in Alaska.
Klein was a former deputy director of the State Energy and Environmental Impact Center at the New York University School of Law, and would have been an aggressive advocate for renewable energy and other climate change policies at the Interior Department.
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She's now looking over her shoulder at the Alaska electorate.
Alaska has Ranked Choice Voting.
Murky isn’t going anywhere until that’s repealed.
Let’s hope that those even a tiny bit of brain will toss her out this time!
Must look good at electon time, then go the other way when nobody is watching.
Biden had nominated Elizabeth Klein, a former Obama administration official, to be the deputy secretary of the Department of the Interior... Murkowski had reportedly opposed the nomination of Klein to the Interior Department because the senator is seeking to expand the oil and gas industry in Alaska.
And notice that this DNC-democrat national media press release is giving Murkowski ALL of the credit for this change! And for the previous, even though several other repbbie’s were actually the ones protesting.
yeah. it’s rigged.
At first I thought she must be opposing Biden to make herself more electable, but it’s much more simple-
She’s just doing her normal job, which to be a tool for the oil companies.
Credit, blame, a lot of the picture depends on the frame.
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