Over the last couple of weeks George W. Bush has made his cabinet selections. For Secretary of Agriculture he appointed Ann Veneman, a former California agriculture director. For his attorney General he chose Senator John Ashcroft from Missouri. For his Commerce Secretary he chose Don Evens who was Bushes campaign chairman. As Defense Secretary Bush chose previous defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The Secretary of Education he chose was Rod Paige the superintendent of the Huston Independent School District. His Environmental Protection Agency Director is New Jersey governor Christie Whitman. The Feral Communication Commission Chairman he chose is Michael Powell a FCC commissioner. Health and Human Services Secretary appointed by Bush was good old Tommy Thompson from Wisconsin, who has been governor of our state for about 14 years and has been very active in welfare reform. The only controversy surrounding our Tommy so far is his political ties with the tobacco conglomerates; he has received campaign funds and has taken trips with tobacco lobbyists. His Housing Secretary is Mel Martinez who was the head of Orange County, FL. Bush's Interior Secretary is former Colorado attorney general Gale Norton. The
I have been saying all the bad stuff about well now I will tell you about some the stuff that is good that he did spoon fed to me right from is very own and I am sure very fair official website. John Ashcroft dedicated his life to serving the people of Missouri and the USA. While he was Missouri's Governor he tried to balanced eight consecutive budgets he also kept the taxes of Missouri the second lowest in the nation. He was also rated by Fortune magazine as one of the top ten education governors. As one of the Missouri Senators he has worked to boost federal funding for education by 40%. He also passed some real nifty drug laws (I am surprised he did legalize them).
Currently Ashcroft, Bush's attorney general nominee faces the stiffest opposition. This past November Ashcroft lost his bid for reelection as a senator. Liberals consider Ashcroft an extreme conseveatist and a possibly a racist. They use Ashcroft's opinion to president Clinton's nomination of Judge Ronnie White to the Federal Bench in 1999. Ashcroft led the successful party-line fight to defeat white. Weather you agree with Ashcroft or not you can hardly call White pro-criminal or outside of the mainstream. In Ashcroft's attacks he talked about such things as a death-penalty case in which White was the sole dissenter. But in this case there was a question of if the person had their right to effective counsel had been violated. In which white mentioned that you have to think about all thing especially in a case is irreversible
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