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voices.washingtonpost.com - 11/18/2008

Beau Biden Will Not Accept Senate Appointment

— voices.washingtonpost.com — Vice-president elect Joe Biden and his son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, embrace at the Democratic National Convention in August. Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden will not accept an appointment to the Senate to replace his father, ... (more) Beau Biden Will Not Accept Senate Appointment

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General David Petraeus

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change.gov - 11/18/2008

Civil Rights | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team

— change.gov — Combat Employment Discrimination: Obama and Biden will work to overturn the Supreme Court's recent ruling that curtails racial minorities' and women's ability to challenge pay discrimination. They will also pass the Fair Pay Act, to ensure that women ... (more) Civil Rights | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team

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Barack Obama

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Ethics | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team

— change.gov — Centralize Ethics and Lobbying Information for Voters: Obama and Biden will create a centralized Internet database of lobbying reports, ethics records, and campaign finance filings in a searchable, sortable and downloadable format. Require Independent ... (more) Ethics | Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Transition Team

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Barack Obama

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On Senate Vacancies
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — ... All of this leads James Joyner to comment on the practice of family members taking on the seats of persons departing office and specially argues for the abolition of appointed replacements, but laments the fact that those processes are state-based. I would agree with him about the problem of appointed replacements and would prefer that the ...

His Father's Seat
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Joyner doesn't approve of Beau Biden taking Joe Biden's seat, an idea that has been floated by beltway types: Appointing family members to succeed politicians who suddenly die in office is a longstanding tradition, as is capitalizing on the family name to get a leg up in running for office.  The latter is at least a byproduct of popular will; the former is beyond unseemly. This ugly act of nepotism has now been scotched mercifully. What does it say about both Bidens that they even considered it? Ugh. ...