Blumenauer on Secretary of Transportation: "I'm not interested."
Kari Chisholm
Yesterday, on C-SPAN, Congressman Earl Blumenauer addressed the suggestion -- made here at BlueOregon -- that he might be President Obama's pick to succeed Ray LaHood as Secretary of Transportation:
Q: Would you take it?
You know, I like what I'm doing and I think I can be a better advocate for livable communities and for transportation doing the work I do in Congress and in other communities than being [in] even a good bureaucracy with a president I respect. I'd like to be kind of a free agent.
Q: That sounds like a no.
I'm not interested.
Here's the full clip:
Well, that's that, I think.
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