Драма, Ч III: Reagan and Romanoff
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The Sestak allegations are becoming a true political soap opera! Popcorn anyone?
Merig00 notes in comments, that an article recently discovered sheds light on somewhat similar scenario almost 30 years ago. It involves three people: Ronald Reagan, Ed Rollins and Mr. Hayakawa. If the article is correct, and there is no reason at present to doubt its origin, Ed Rollins, who was soon to be Reagan's official political adviser, made a statement that many understood to be a job offer in the Reagan administration should he drop out of a Republican senatorial race.
Needless to say certain parties on the left are having convulsions and trying to dismiss Sestak's allegations based on this blast from the past and are having poopoo over Reagan. Allow me to interrupt this premature ...ahhh celebration.
First of all, Mr. Ed Rollins was not a part of the administration yet. As this additional article states, it is definitely not known if Reagan was in on the offer. As Mr Hayakawa himself said: "I have not contacted the White House and they have not been in contact with me." And btw, it is the opinion of yours truly that Ed Rollins should have been prosecuted.
Secondly, since when two wrongs make one right? If we are to go by this logic, hey Nixon - republican president, besides his participation in Watergate, was also a ... Keynesian politician. (That, by the way. is the reason why the economy started downhill during his term). So in this case it's ok that Baran has actually driven US into a Great Depression II? Nonsense.
Thirdly, there is a difference between Ed Rollins (no I am not justifying the guy, I repeat, he should have been prosecuted) and Rahm sending Willie to offer Sestak a FEDERAL JOB. The latter is a case where a member of the current administration is making a direct offer! Both are wrong, but second is more so.
Allow me to repeat, the Sestak saga is not over. Sestak claimed that he was offered a federal job, and now the WH storyline claims that he was offered an uncompensated advisory board position. But an uncompensated advisory board position would be additional responsibility to his already existing job in the House of Representatives, and not a new federal job, which Sestak claimed was the actual offer all along.
Oh and btw, Sestak's saga is not a first time something like this happens with the current administration.
D.C. job alleged as attempt to deter Romanoff:
...Jim Messina, President Barack Obama's deputy chief of staff and a storied fixer in the White House political shop, suggested a place for Romanoff might be found in the administration and offered specific suggestions, according to several sources who described the communication to The Denver Post.
Romanoff turned down the overture, which included mention of a job at USAID (another "unpaid position"?), the foreign aid agency, sources said....
The White House said that no job was ever offered to Romanoff and that it would be wrong to suggest administration officials tried to buy him out of the contest....
Yet several top Colorado Democrats described Messina's outreach to Romanoff to The Post, including the discussion of specific jobs in the administration. They asked for anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject...
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The Sestak allegations are becoming a true political soap opera! Popcorn anyone?
Merig00 notes in comments, that an article recently discovered sheds light on somewhat similar scenario almost 30 years ago. It involves three people: Ronald Reagan, Ed Rollins and Mr. Hayakawa. If the article is correct, and there is no reason at present to doubt its origin, Ed Rollins, who was soon to be Reagan's official political adviser, made a statement that many understood to be a job offer in the Reagan administration should he drop out of a Republican senatorial race.
Needless to say certain parties on the left are having convulsions and trying to dismiss Sestak's allegations based on this blast from the past and are having poopoo over Reagan. Allow me to interrupt this premature ...ahhh celebration.
First of all, Mr. Ed Rollins was not a part of the administration yet. As this additional article states, it is definitely not known if Reagan was in on the offer. As Mr Hayakawa himself said: "I have not contacted the White House and they have not been in contact with me." And btw, it is the opinion of yours truly that Ed Rollins should have been prosecuted.
Secondly, since when two wrongs make one right? If we are to go by this logic, hey Nixon - republican president, besides his participation in Watergate, was also a ... Keynesian politician. (That, by the way. is the reason why the economy started downhill during his term). So in this case it's ok that Baran has actually driven US into a Great Depression II? Nonsense.
Thirdly, there is a difference between Ed Rollins (no I am not justifying the guy, I repeat, he should have been prosecuted) and Rahm sending Willie to offer Sestak a FEDERAL JOB. The latter is a case where a member of the current administration is making a direct offer! Both are wrong, but second is more so.
Allow me to repeat, the Sestak saga is not over. Sestak claimed that he was offered a federal job, and now the WH storyline claims that he was offered an uncompensated advisory board position. But an uncompensated advisory board position would be additional responsibility to his already existing job in the House of Representatives, and not a new federal job, which Sestak claimed was the actual offer all along.
Oh and btw, Sestak's saga is not a first time something like this happens with the current administration.
D.C. job alleged as attempt to deter Romanoff:
...Jim Messina, President Barack Obama's deputy chief of staff and a storied fixer in the White House political shop, suggested a place for Romanoff might be found in the administration and offered specific suggestions, according to several sources who described the communication to The Denver Post.
Romanoff turned down the overture, which included mention of a job at USAID (another "unpaid position"?), the foreign aid agency, sources said....
The White House said that no job was ever offered to Romanoff and that it would be wrong to suggest administration officials tried to buy him out of the contest....
Yet several top Colorado Democrats described Messina's outreach to Romanoff to The Post, including the discussion of specific jobs in the administration. They asked for anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject...