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Name: Mike's America
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States

Currently living in the South Carolina Lowcountry, Mike has taken a keen interest in politics and government since his days as a young whippersnapper in Ohio. There, he organized College Republicans clubs, worked as a professional staffer on two statewide campaigns and was elected to the Delaware County Republican Central Committee among other achievements. In 1986 he began graduate studies in government at Columbia University where he specialized in National Security matters under the tutelage of former National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Leaving New York in 1988 he moved to Washington, D.C. to become a White House Intern in the Political Office of President Ronald Reagan. With backing from the first Bush Administration he spent four years at the Environmental Protection Agency. He has lived on Hilton Head since 1996 where he writes, photographs and gardens.

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Tainted Obama Nominee for Trans. Security Admin. Withdraws

Thank you Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) for leading the fight against this flawed nomination!

From Politico:

President Barack Obama’s nominee to head up the agency in charge of airport security withdrew Wednesday morning after a long showdown with a Republican senator opposed to allowing air security screeners to unionize.

The nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration, Erroll Southers, also became entangled in a flap over a misstatement about an episode that led to his censure at the FBI two decades ago.
Souther's lied to congress about his abuse of sensitive information in criminal databases for personal reasons. It was only after the lie was exposed by the release of the FBI report on his misdeeds that Souther changed the story he told Senators in his confirmation hearings.

Had Senator DeMint not led the charge on blocking this nominee we might be saddled with yet another flawed Obama official in a sensitive office.

posted by Mike's America | 1/20/2010