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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:14:32 -0500
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- From: "Chris A. Sloffer" <SLOFFER_CHRIS_A@LILLY.COM>
- Subject: Re: Zoe Baird
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- >to here deal with Zoe Baird. Briefly I think she was shafted and was
- >a scapegoat. Loads of people are in her situation with the state of
- >day care and the like today, including two people to run for governor
- >in NJ (including the woman who almost beat Bill Bradley). She erred,
- >but in the context of why she erred, she didn't deserve to be denied
- >her position because of the infraction.
-
- Sigh.... I knew that people would wimper about her not being confirmed.
- The simple fact is that she broke the law. Your position on child care is
- irrelevant. It doesn't matter. She broke the law. If the child care thang
- bothers you, call it theft. She stole. She shouldn't have been confirmed.
-
- > We have a Commerce Secretary
- >now with more questionable dealings than Zoe's. Her conservate
- >positions seem to me helped her shafting -- she would of offered the
- >kind of diversity Clinton spoke of before he set up his Cabinet,
- >diversity of belief/views, not just sex or race. I'm glad (in a way,
- >in another way more questioning of some might have been warranted) all
- >the other Cabinet officers got in ok, but Zoe Baird should have been
- >among them.
-
- I agree that Brown is rater shifty and that his past activities are exactly
- that type of actions that the president campaigned against. However, I have
- not heard of any evidence that Brown broke the law in his dealings. If such
- proof existed then he, too, should not have been confirmed.
-
- Chris
-
- > -Joe
-
- BTW, Joe, I know that you didn't say some of the things I attributed to you
- above. This was a reply to many of the messages on this subject, not just
- yours.
-