Obama names “most fined” Washington State bureaucrat to HUD

Obama names “most fined” Washington State bureaucrat to HUD

posted at 9:19 am on February 4, 2009
by Ed Morrissey at Hot Air

Barack Obama didn’t do much except run for President during his four years in the US Senate, but he did partner with Tom Coburn on transparency in budgeting. That accomplishment allowed for some hope that Obama would work to make the federal government more transparent. Unfortunately, as our friend Stefan Sharkansky reports from Sound Politics, Obama’s appointment of Ron Sims to the #2 position at HUD sends exactly the opposite message. A court levied the biggest fine for illegal record withholding against Sims in Washington State history — and that record hasn’t finished yet:

Sims is culpable for what may well become the largest fine for violations of public records laws in U.S. history: see Yousoufian, Armen
My own public records suit against Sims (for delaying release of election records which revealed that King County officials unlawfully counted hundreds of ineligible ballots in the 2004 governor’s race) goes to trial in April.
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Here are some great comments:

Seriously, though, when you’re picking nominees from a field of liberals - and hoping for people of high ethics - you’re drawing to an inside straight. A good many Democrat officials get where they are by cheating, gouging, lying, slandering, bullying and denying the truth. When the cream hits the surface, it’s already starting to stink.

whitetop on February 4, 2009 at 9:39 AM
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Got to give Obama high marks for consistency. If there’s a crook out there, Obama will find him and appoint him to something, anything.

jeanie on February 4, 2009 at 9:25 AM
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Like someone else said, Obama seems to have a radar for crooks.

And yet people are naive enough to think that Obama somehow stayed out of the middle of true Chicago politics and that he’s squeaky clean.

MobileVideoEngineer on February 4, 2009 at 9:34 AM
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It just never ends, eh?

This administration seems on track to eclipse the Clinton mob’s record of corruption and beat Jimmy Carter’s record for incompetence.

Skandia Recluse on February 4, 2009 at 9:44 AM
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What a snafu! When, when will the media finally wise up and start reporting ALL this crap to the stupid general public who voted for this useless piece of crap. this is YOUR president folks, not mine and I wouldn’t lay claim to him if you paid me. The man is an idiot, unfortunately, he is also the potus…….*sigh*

clinker46 on February 4, 2009 at 9:52 AM
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It’s almost as if he’s trying to make each day worse than the last.It’s gotten to the point of “ya’ can’t make this sh*t up folks”

tehd on February 4, 2009 at 10:04 AM