Podesta:Cabinet Picks Will Not Likely Be Named Until Thanksgiving

[tekisui]

Staffers from President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team will meet with officials and review briefing books at dozens of agencies this week.
The Washington-based transition team spent last week settling into its Northwest Washington offices, launching a Web site and enlisting dozens of staffers to lead agency reviews. The transition team will eventually grow to about 450 staffers, divided between Washington and Chicago, where the president-elect and many of his closest advisers will work.

Transition leader John Podesta announced nearly two dozen names, many of whom are former Clinton administration officials, to serve as agency review team leaders. They include: Josh Gotbaum, a former assistant secretary of Defense, who will lead the Treasury Department review team; Wendy Sherman, former State Department counselor, who will lead the review of State; and John White, former deputy secretary of Defense, who will lead the Pentagon review.
Podesta said Cabinet picks will not likely be named until Thanksgiving.

Another agenda item for the transition team: raising funds. Transition costs are estimated at $12 million. Congress appropriated $5 million; the rest will come from private donors. A new ethics policy released last week caps donations at $5,000, and the transition team has pledged to release a list of all donors. Registered lobbyists are prohibited from making donations.

The ethics policy prohibits lobbyists from working on the transition. Former lobbyists are allowed to participate, but only if their transition work doesn’t involve issues on which they’ve lobbied.
Meanwhile, nonprofit organizations are lining up to offer advice to the president-elect. The Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank run by Podesta, released a book last week containing dozens of essays by prominent policy experts. The 600-page book, “Change for America,” includes suggestions on everything from foreign policy in Afghanistan to reducing voter fraud.

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[RC]

1. Thanksgiving!!? We gotta put up with all the self appointed know it alls

picking Obama's Cabinet for him or telling us why some incompetents would be a good choice for another 11 days? :wow:

[tekisui]

2. We'll have every national figure filleted

by then!:silly:

[TexasObserver]

3. Good. We need another 300 threads about why Kerry should be SOS.

He's owed! He did the most for Obama! BCCI! He's the only one qualified!

I've supported him for the senate. I've supported him for president. Gave him money and raised money for him. I've known him for 25 years. And that's why I say NO to Kerry at State, he's great in the senate. He can't end a sentence, a bad quality at State.

Hillary, whom I've never liked, never supported, never given money to, is perfect for SOS.

This is called BEING OBJECTIVE for those who don't understand it.

[Mass]

5. LOL, we also need 600 posts on why you do not want him, all as vacuous one as the other.

But thanks for playing.

[TexasObserver]

8. Thanks for playing, but we already have a winner.

[blm]

4. Good - that should end the 'payback' meme being spread by malicious players.

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[Mass]

6. Good, but could Podesta stop the leaks in his staff.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Kick

:kick: