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Stealth Clintonista, Laz. Here is his biography, from his nomination (and let's remember this nomination was done before 9/11 and while Daschle had just become majority leader through weasel tactics):

Ziglar was elected as the 35th Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate in October 1998. Prior to his election, he served as Managing Director of Paine Webber Incorporated in the firm's Municipal Securities Group. He was a member of the Paine Webber Operating Committee, the Municipal Securities Group Executive Committee and served as the Chairman of the Municipal Securities Group Operating Committee. During that time, Mr. Ziglar had responsibility for the National Infrastructure Finance Group and the West Coast General Markets Group.

In addition to his 23 years in the public sector finance industry, he has worked in various capacities of the federal government. He served as Assistant Secretary of Interior for Water and Science from 1987 to 1988, where he directed the operations of the Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Mines. He served a member of the Senior Advisory Group on Water Governance of the Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relations and was the joint recipient of the Water Statesman of the Year Award from the National Water Resources Association in 1988.

Looks to me like he is a career guy and perpetual bureaucrat.

Michelle Malkin:

Good riddance to James Ziglar, the hopeless head of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) who announced his resignation last week.
This is a man whose main qualifications for the nation's top immigration enforcement job were his boyhood friendship with Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott and his effortless ability to suck up to Sen. Ted Kennedy.
This is a man whose law enforcement background consisted of less than three years as the U.S. Senate's sergeant-at-arms and doorkeeper, protecting the Senate gavel and playing Senate hall monitor.
This is a man who freely admitted before his confirmation that he had "no discernible experience in immigration law and policy."
This is a man whose idea of increasing U.S.-Mexican border security was to give his beleaguered agents pepperball guns . . .continued