Shadow EPA Administrator Resigns From Shadow Cabinet
I resign from the shadow cabinet organized by Tom Knapp.
When I agreed to the appointment, I didn’t notice that the “Jim” being appointed as shadow NASA Administrator was the same person who has written that I am “scum”, “authoritarian”, “mad with power”, that I “like to see women and children massacred”, and that I am a “bloodthirsty coward”. Not surprisingly, he admits he is “obnoxious and disliked, I know it’s true. So what?”
Mr. Davidson may have no qualms serving alongside someone he describes in this manner, but my standards are different. This takes the whole “Team of Rivals” concept a little farther than I’m willing to go.
Observers of this shadow cabinet project are invited to test its commitment to transparency by counting how many minutes before this posting gets censored under some rationale or other. It will be interesting to see if Mr. Knapp is willing to live his Boston Tea Party values about airing dirty laundry — or if his standards about transparency are different in a context where he wields ultimate authority. Mr. Knapp is running for President of the United States, so his actions here could plausibly be taken as a preview of those he would take in the Oval Office.
May 7th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Mr. Holtz,
I regret your decision to resign from the Shadow Cabinet, as I would have been greatly interested in seeing your policy proposals published/promoted in the Shadow Cabinet context.
While I remain “in charge” of the Shadow Cabinet — i.e. until some competent party volunteers to administer it so that it does not remain associated with a particular presidential campaign — your resignation post will not be removed or altered unless you yourself remove or alter it, or unless I take the project down entirely.
Best regards,
Tom Knapp
May 26th, 2009 at 3:43 am
And nobody mentioned it to me. - sound of world’s tiniest violin playing - I make it just about 19 days and still not taken down. How many minutes? Over 27,000 and counting. Whee.
It must have been easier to resign in protest rather than detail any actual proposals.
And, no I don’t see any reason to take back any of my comments, though they are clearly quoted out of context.