The newest addition to the Biden administration may soon be a prominent Republican official who fought back against Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 election had been stolen.
I don’t see why this is necessary. Why is she still a member of a party where the majority of the congressional caucus voted to cancel American democracy? Did she support Hillary Clinton in 2016 in that obvious test of character and intelligence? Will she fight all Republican attacks on the franchise, or only the over-the-top ridiculous lies?
Unless we have satisfactory answers to all these questions, we should hold off on appointing a person who chooses membership in the Republican party. She does not deserve the benefit of the doubt.
Appointing a RINO never-Trumper isn’t going to persuade so much as a single GOP voter. So good for her for rejecting The Big Lie, but this is pointless stunt casting.
Maybe she knows very well the evil mindset of her fellow GQPers?
Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman, the only statewide elected Republican on the West Coast
Who do you think is going to appoint her successor?
Don’t we all?
Even if she’s replaced by a Democrat in Washington State, I’d much rather have someone in charge of election security at the federal level who isn’t a Republican. I mean, there’s some reason a Republican wanted to run for secretary of state in Washington, and whatever it is can’t be good.
Biden Poised To Bring Aboard GOP Election Official Who Resisted Big Lie
Chiselin’ Trump: “I’m going to exercise my executive privilege authority—which I still retain—and veto the appointment of this Never-Trumper.”
In Oregon in early 2019, we lost the only state wide elected Republican (he died of cancer). Our Democratic governor appointed a Republican, who agreed not to seek the office, as a placeholder until the next election. I don’t know if Inslee would do the same, but it’s not a given that he won’t.
I can appreciate the optics, but I’m more concerned with her credentials. It doesn’t bother me that she’s a Republican.
And I don’t see her main job of running an important, but little known agency as trying to persuade GOP voters. I looked at her credentials.
I concur.
Appointing Republicans never gets any GOP support and it promotes the false notion that Democrat’s don’t have competent officials that can run these agencies.
she may be fine. Why take that chance, when there is absolutely zero chance that her appointment is going to persuade any GOP voter that federal elections aren’t rigged?
Even more important, can we rely on her to continue rigging the elections so that it’s not worth the time and trouble for Republicans to vote?
I concur with her selection…with the following Rod Serling adjustments
(1) Murk turns D or Indie caucusing with D’s
(2) Graham and RoJo go to Jail
(3) We do some real legislative business
The Republicans (those cowards not saying a fucking word) are the ones who could not or would not stop the madness when it might have been feasible
Washington state’s election system looks like it’s quite well run. Are you discounting the possibility of her getting the job based on qualifications?
No, but it makes it embarrassing for Senate Republicans to oppose her and stresses the MSM Bothsides frame.
Hmmmmm….she was born in 1962 and lived abroad after graduating from college (presumably sometime after 1984). During that time, “barriers to voting in US elections while living in Germany inspired her to become an elections official”…??
As someone who lived abroad (and was not military) since the late 1970s, it would interest me to know what these “barriers” were.
Perhaps the “barrier” is just that the vast majority of US ex-pats vote Dem because they have experienced a bigger, wider world??
There are any number of actual Democrats who can fill the position at least as ably. And it’s yet another sign that the administration does not understand the dire threat that all this rigged-elections nonsense poses to the country. It appears they think that having a RINO never-Trumper Republican come out and pronounce that the next election was super-duper secure is somehow going to mollify the next mob, or a bunch of Trumpy state and local elections officials, or the members of Congress when they next meet to certify the Electoral College vote. Ain’t gonna happen.
I don’t see her job as trying to convince any GOP voter on anything. I’m trusting her to make sure that she follows in Krebs footsteps to help make sure our elections are run fair and smoothly.
Well, I’ll take that as a “yes”.
But you are making an assumption that the primary purpose of selecting her for the job is to convince Trumpist election conspiracy nutters to change their ways. I don’t see a solid basis for that assumption, and you’re quite free in challenging others who make unsupported assertions, which is fine.
Note, I don’t doubt that her political party of choice is at the very least a happy side benefit as far as the Biden administration is concerned, but what makes you think it is the determining factor?
Please don’t forget what technology we had in the 70s to what technology we have today.
And it would be interesting to know by decade, or by general election the percentage of Americans that participated in elections through the years.
I look at this from my view of never having to change my registration more than once, and that was from one Missouri county back to my original county I was first registered in. Just remember I’m next to KS, and learning about the crap Kobach was trying to do to voter registration there, even before being elected SoS.