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Mark Keam, longtime Democratic Virginia delegate, resigns
Associated Press ^
| September 6, 2022
| Sarah Rankin
Posted on 09/06/2022 5:44:34 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Mark Keam, a long-serving Democratic member of the House of Delegates from northern Virginia, has resigned his seat, a move that will set up a special election to fill the vacancy in the blue-leaning district.
An attorney who was first elected to his Fairfax County-based seat in 2009, Keam said in an interview Tuesday that he had stepped down to take a job in the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Keam said he will serve as a deputy assistant secretary running the National Travel and Tourism Office, which is focused on bringing foreign travelers to the U.S.
Keam said he was excited to step into the new role at a time when the travel and tourism industries are at a “critical moment” in recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. …
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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: asianamericans; commerce; commercedepartment; commercedept; dickdurbin; durbin; keam; korean; markkeam; ntto; resignation; sjc; tourism; travel; visas; visitors; wellbye
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posted on
09/06/2022 5:44:35 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Rats desert a possible sinking ship and hide in a plushy permanent govt job that probably pays more than a House rep job...
To: Olog-hai
Never trust a Rat. Even a so-called former Rat. Once a Rat, always a Rat.
To: Olog-hai
The USA has a “National Travel and Tourism Office”? Who knew?
Sounds like another useless office full of thousands of sinecures and patronage jobs.
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posted on
09/06/2022 5:55:15 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
("A Conservative is an Ultra-MAGA, Semi-Fascist, Enemy-of-the-State, Deplorable Clinger")
To: Olog-hai
Wonder if In Omeish, his former opponent of the MAS and Hamas fame, is going to grab that seat.
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posted on
09/06/2022 5:58:11 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: Olog-hai
...Korean-American Mark Keam, a former chief counsel for Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin on the Senate Judiciary Committee....
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posted on
09/06/2022 6:00:14 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: Olog-hai
Keam said he will serve as a deputy assistant secretary running the National Travel and Tourism Office, which is focused on bringing foreign travelers to the U.S. He can be contacted any day of the week without a “y” on the southern border of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona or California.
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posted on
09/06/2022 6:00:35 PM PDT
by
immadashell
(Save Innocent Lives: Ban Gun Free Zones)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Nazi Germany had one of those, known as KdF (from Kraft durch Freude, or “Strength through Joy”, from which the VW Beetle’s original name KdF-Wagen was derived).
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posted on
09/06/2022 6:01:05 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
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posted on
09/06/2022 6:01:42 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Let's go Brandon!)
To: Fedora
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posted on
09/06/2022 6:02:43 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: Olog-hai
deputy assistant secretary running the National Travel and Tourism Office A sure sign of bloated fed gov. I’m sure it pays well.
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posted on
09/06/2022 6:05:00 PM PDT
by
csvset
(tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
To: Olog-hai
"Keam said he will serve as a deputy assistant secretary
running the National Travel and Tourism Office, which is focused on bringing foreign travelers to the U.S. I guess the USA doesn't have enough foreigners
roaming around the country mucking up everything.
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posted on
09/06/2022 6:27:47 PM PDT
by
StormEye
To: Olog-hai
Keam said he will serve as a deputy assistant secretary running the National Travel and Tourism Office, which is focused on bringing foreign travelers to the U.S
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Where will his office be located? Tijuana?
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posted on
09/06/2022 6:28:08 PM PDT
by
thinden
(buckle up.....)
To: SuperLuminal
Nope . . . jus' re-shufflin' . . . . . .
Keam said he will serve as a deputy assistant secretary running the National Travel and Tourism Office, which is focused on bringing foreign travelers to the U.S.
"
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posted on
09/06/2022 6:38:44 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
To: Olog-hai
“Bringing foreign travelers to the USA”.
Don’t we have a massive Problem with such at the Southern border???
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