Obama nominates another CEO to his cabinet!

CNN's Ed Henry reports that President Obama will nominate John Bryson to be the next commerce secretary. He is the former CEO of Edison International.
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Obama will make the announcement at 1:15 p.m. ET in the Rose Garden.

Bryson, who must be confirmed by the Senate, would replace current Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, who has been nominated to serve as ambassador to China.

More career highlights after the jump:
– CEO of Edison International, the parent company of Southern California Edison and Edison Mission Group, from 1990 to 2008.

– Director of The Boeing Company, The Walt Disney Company and Coda Automotive, Inc., and is a senior advisor to KKR.
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http://whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/31/breaking-bryson-to-be-named-commerce-secretary

OMG!!!! CEO of EDISON!

fuck the workers to enrich the elite. i think obama will have no problem raising that billion dollars.

if we want to really do some good we should give our money and time to our local and state candidates.

:argh:

No mouse in my house.

Just what we need - more representation for the plutocracy.

More SSDD. :puke: :puke: :puke:

I would think that a businessman would be Sometimes we should think before we speak.

It's just common sense! :eyes:

Commerce deals with a lot of stuff, but even if it were nothing but business regulation, I see no reason why a corporate CEO should be considered a no-brainer for a leadership position.

And a Medical Doctor as Surgeon General!!

Elevenses11!!!


Sid

notice this is all present-tense.

But somehow I get the feeling he still has plenty of time to play golf. :shrug:

According to his biography released by the White House, Mr. Bryson is also a director of several major corporations, including Boeing, Walt Disney and Coda Automotive, and is a senior adviser to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. He is chairman of the board of BrightSource Energy, the Public Policy Institute of California and the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California Board of Overseers. He also serves as co-chairman of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

He is a trustee of the California Institute of Technology, a director of the California Endowment and the W. M. Keck Foundation, and serves on the advisory board of Deutsche Bank Americas.