[Invisible News Open Thread]
Things that shouldn’t get lost department: Meet our new nominee for the position of assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration:
Mrs. Sauerbrey, 68, was a big wheel in the Maryland General Assembly who lost consecutive races for governor in 1994 and 1998, then went on to become a television host. She was Maryland state chair for Mr. Bush’s 2000 campaign; her reward was to be named U.S. representative to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, where she was mainly interested in pressing an antiabortion agenda.
How any of that qualifies her to take charge of a key government agency that often finds itself in the thick of dire international calamities is a mystery. [WaPo, 31 Oct ’05].
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