Honestly, it’s like they go out of their way to find the most dubious, ethically crippled candidates possible, and don’t care about the message picking weasels like this POS sends to the American populace.
President Obama’s choice for the government’s No. 2 housing job is embroiled in the largest fine in U.S. history for “blatant violations” of open records laws after the Washington State Supreme Court chastised his office for withholding documents detailing taxpayer costs for a new professional football stadium in Seattle.
The documents that Ronald Sims’ office was found to have kept from the public when he served as King County executive included information about cheaper alternatives to the $430 million Seattle Seahawks stadium, which was built in 2002, according to a Washington Times review of the court records.
Washington’s highest court ruled in January that the withheld documents would have allowed voters in a referendum to challenge “the veracity” of King County’s request for $300 million in public bonds for the project. The justices found the actions of Mr. Sims’ office to be so “egregious” that they scrapped a lower court’s order of a $123,780 fine – the largest ever assessed in a public records case – and recommended that the penalty be increased to as much as $825,000.
Mr. Obama nominated Mr. Sims as the top deputy at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) just three weeks after the court’s ruling….
via EXCLUSIVE: Records violations ensnare housing nominee – Washington Times.
Riehl World View: “As it seems almost all of Obama’s pals are either tax scofflaws, crooks, or corrupted bureaucrats, you’d think he had the sense to not appoint them all to high level posts. If the media would start doing its job, people might realize how incompetent the fool in the WH is.”
