Not brought up in an agricultural household, no agricultural education, and no agricultural experience...until Obama appointed him as Secretary of Agriculture. During which he apparently did not oppose companies like Monsanto.Tom Vilsack - Secretary of Agriculture
2017 - present ... President and CEO of the US Dairy Export Council
2009 - 2017 ... Secretary of Agriculture
1999 - 2007 ... Governor of Iowa
1993 - 1999 ... Iowa Senate
1987 - 1992 ... Mayor of Mount Pleasant
...volunteered in the 1987 presidential campaign of Joe Biden.
In first year of his second term <as Governor>, Vilsack used a line-item veto, later ruled unconstitutional by the Iowa Supreme Court, to create the Grow Iowa Values Fund, a $503 million appropriation designed to boost the Iowa economy by offering grants to corporations...
Candidates seeking to replace Vilsack...criticized this program. They complained that companies attracted to Iowa by the fund can be lured away by financial incentives elsewhere and that the legislation does not promote new business creation.
Vilsack vetoed a bill to restrict Iowa's use of eminent domain, citing its potential for negative impact on job creation.
His veto was overridden by the legislature.
In 2005, Vilsack established Heartland PAC, a political action committee aimed at electing Democratic governors.
Vilsack was the founder and former chair of the Governor's Biotechnology Partnership, and was named Governor of the Year by the Biotechnology Industry Organization, an industry lobbying group.
In March 2012, Vilsack joined three midwest governors in a campaign to defend the use of a processed beef product made from trimmings left after beef carcasses are butchered, dubbed "pink slime" by its critics.
At a Drake University forum on climate change April 22, 2014 Vilsack stated "agriculture tends to take the brunt of criticism about climate change, but the industry contributes only 9 percent of the greenhouse gases blamed for a warming planet" and that while there were "challenges globally in terms of agriculture and its contribution to greenhouse gas emissions that's not necessarily the case in the United States."
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Again, not raised, educated, nor experienced in the area she has been given oversight of.Marcia Fudge - Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
In 2015, Fudge wrote a letter asking for leniency in the sentencing of Lance Mason. Fudge described Mason as "kind," and wrote that "Lance [...] has assured me that something like this will never happen again." Mason subsequently attacked and killed his (now) ex-wife, in 2018, stabbing her 59 times.
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At least I can take some comfort knowing that Nina Turner will likely get her vacated House seat.
Denis McDonough - Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Again, no military experience. One would think this position should be filled with a veteran.
Now on to the rage inducing picks...
Katherine Tai - United States Trade Representative
Normally she could probably be considered a good pick...however, considering that she is of Chinese decent...and given that Swalwell's nuts are currently in a wringer over his involvement with a Chinese spy...
Suspected Chinese spy targeted California politicians
...and given the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden's China ties...
Federal criminal investigation into Hunter Biden focuses on his business dealings in China
...and given the CCP's opinion of Biden's presidency...
...I don't think the appointment is appropriate, at minimum for the sake of appearance.
And finally, a gigantic "FUK YOU" to us...
AW HELL NO !!Susan Rice - Director of the Domestic Policy Council
A former Brookings Institution fellow, Rice served as a foreign policy advisor to Democratic presidential nominees Michael Dukakis, John Kerry, and Barack Obama. After Obama won the 2008 presidential election, Rice was nominated as Ambassador to the United Nations.
...defended Israel at the Security Council, pushed for tough sanctions against Iran and North Korea, and advocated for U.S. and NATO intervention in Libya in 2011.
Mentioned as a possible replacement for retiring United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2012, Rice withdrew from consideration following controversy related to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi.
At the time of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Rice reportedly said, "If we use the word 'genocide' and are seen as doing nothing, what will be the effect on the November election?" She denied the quote but acknowledged the mistakes made at the time...
Timothy M. Carney, former U.S. ambassador to Sudan, co-authored an op-ed in 2002 claiming that in 1997 Sudan offered to turn over its intelligence on bin Laden but that Rice...successfully lobbied for continuing to bar U.S. officials from engaging with the Khartoum government.
In the context of the Rwandan, Ugandan, AFDL and Angolan invasion of Zaire (later known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1996 and overthrow of dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, Rice is alleged to have said that "Anything's better than Mobutu." According to Gérard Prunier, a staffer to the Assistant Secretary said that "the only thing we have to do is look the other way," with respect to regional intervention in the conflict. New York Times correspondent Howard W. French said that according to his sources, Rice herself made the remark.
On July 7, 1998, Rice was a member of an American delegation to visit detained Nigerian president-elect Basorun Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. During this meeting, Abiola suffered a fatal heart attack.
Rice supported U.S. efforts to reach both the Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement in the Congo and the Lomé Peace Accord in Sierra Leone. Some observers criticized the Sierra Leone agreement as too indulgent of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and for bringing the war criminal Foday Sankoh into government, leading to the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1313, which blamed the RUF for the continuing conflict in the west African country.
Rice had a poor relationship with State Department veteran Richard Holbrooke...
...in a December 2002 NPR interview, Rice said, "It's clear that Iraq poses a major threat. It's clear that its weapons of mass destruction need to be dealt with forcefully, and that's the path we're on. ..."
Rice criticized Obama's Republican opponent in the campaign, John McCain, calling his policies "reckless" and dismissing the Arizona senator's trip to Iraq as "strolling around the market in a flak jacket."
As the 2011 Libyan Civil War progressed, the United States and its allies offered a choice for Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and his aides: step down from power or face an international response. Rice offered some of the toughest rhetoric toward Gaddafi, criticizing his denials of atrocities against his own citizens as "frankly, delusional." In a closed-door Security Council meeting in April 2011, Rice reportedly stated that Gaddafi loyalists engaged in atrocities, including terrorizing the population with sexual violence, and that Gaddafi's troops has been issued Viagra. Together with National Security Council figure Samantha Power, who already supported the U.S.-led military intervention in Libya, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who came to support it, the three overcame internal opposition from Defense Secretary Robert Gates, security adviser Thomas E. Donilon, and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan, to have the administration advance a UN proposal to impose a no-fly zone over Libya and authorize other military actions as necessary.
In January 2012, after the Russian and Chinese veto of a Security Council resolution calling on Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to step down, Rice strongly condemned both countries, saying, "They put a stake in the heart of efforts to resolve this conflict peacefully," and adding that "we the United States are standing with the people of Syria. Russia and China are obviously with Assad." In her words, "the United States is disgusted that a couple of members of this Council continue to prevent us from fulfilling our sole purpose."
2012 Benghazi attack...Rice appeared on five major interview shows to discuss the attacks. Prior to her appearance, Rice was provided with "talking points" from a CIA memo...
Since Rice's five television appearances, there have been persistent accusations that she had intentionally misled the public.
A group of 97 House Republicans sent a letter to President Obama on November 19 to say Rice's statements were "misleading" and that she should accordingly not be considered a candidate to succeed Hillary Clinton in 2013 as Secretary of State. Some Republican senators, who would have had a vote on whether to confirm Rice, also voiced objections and said their meetings with Rice at the end of November 2012 did not ease their concerns.
Rice was the lone dissenter among President Obama's national security team on his decision to seek congressional authorization for military strikes against Syria's chemical weapons facilities, following the Assad regime's use of sarin gas against civilians in August 2013. She argued to move forward with strikes to punish Assad, correctly predicting Congress would not grant authorization.
...during the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict. She also negotiated a new memorandum of understanding between the U.S. and Israel in 2016 for $38 billion of military assistance, the largest such package in Israel's history.
Rice supported South Sudanese independence and initial U.S. aid to the government of president Salva Kiir Mayardit. When the South Sudanese Civil War broke out in 2013 between President Kiir's forces and forces led by vice president Riek Machar, the U.S. continued its support for the Kiir administration despite reports from U.S. embassy staff of atrocities committed by the government.
Rice was perceived as close to Rwanda's president Paul Kagame. Some critics of the Obama administration's Africa policy faulted Rice for what they viewed as the U.S.'s failure to take action against Rwanda for its role in the Kivu conflict.
On March 28, 2018, Rice was appointed to the board of directors at Netflix.
Rice also criticized Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria...
...is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group, American Academy of Diplomacy, and Council on Foreign Relations.
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