gristmill.grist.org - 12/11/2008
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Lisa Jackson is Obama's pick to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, sources close to the transition confirm. Jackson, who's been working on Obama's transition team for the EPA, has served since 2006 as commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. In that ...
abcnews.go.com - 12/10/2008
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abcnews.go.com —
Chicago Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) is the
anonymous "Senate Candidate #5" whose emissaries Illinois Governor Rod
Blagojevich reportedly claimed offered up to a million dollars to name him to the U.S. Senate, federal law enforcement sources ...
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Sources Say Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is 'Senate Candidate #5'
abcnews.go.com - 12/10/2008
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abcnews.go.com —
Chicago Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. , D-Ill., is
the anonymous "Senate Candidate No. 5" whose emissaries Illinois
Gov. Rod Blagojevich reportedly offered up to $1 million to name him to the U.S. Senate, federal law enforcement sources tell ABC News. ...
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Sources Say Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Is 'Senate Candidate ...
newsblogs.chicagotribune.com - 12/9/2008
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newsblogs.chicagotribune.com —
Posted by Dan Mihalopoulos at 7:36 p.m. Following
a 90-minute audition meeting today with Gov. Rod Blagojevich,
Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. said he was confident in the process the governor is using to make his choice for a Senate successor to ...
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Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. touts Senate credentials to ...
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A sterling team on energy, environment
Political Animal —
... Janet Wilson on Sutley; and here's Kate Sheppard on Jackson. For the diversity minded, I'd also note that Chu will be the second Asian-American member of Obama's cabinet; Sutley will be the first openly-gay person to serve in any cabinet; Jackson will be the first African American to head the EPA; and three of the four officials on Obama's energy/environmental team are women. Pay particular attention, by the way, to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu at Energy. Yglesias ...
David Roberts: Flaccid Apparatchik: The Stephen Johnson Story
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... I don't know enough about Lisa Jackson to know if she'll be a successful administrator, and hell if I'm going to try to predict this time. But one thing I feel certain of is that she'll be an improvement over Johnson, the most flaccid apparatchik in an administration drooping with them. ...
David Roberts: Browner's Second Chance: Obama's Green Team Traces Its Roots Back to Gore
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... , Obama's choice to head the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), was special assistant to Browner when Browner ran the EPA. Lisa Jackson worked in the Superfund program out of the New York office and is reportedly good friends with Mary Nichols, another Clinton EPA vet on the short list for EPA. ...
Better than a Kennedy:
The Volokh Conspiracy —
Word is President-elect Obama will nominate former New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Lisa P. Jackson to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. This is a much better choice than Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who had been rumored to be in the running. I am sure I will have plenty of policy agreements with Administrator Jackson, but there is little question that she has the qualifications and temperament for the job.
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