Sunday, September 06, 2009

"Czar" Van Jones Resigns

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One of Obama's non-Constitutional Czars deposed; the rest should go, too.

From The New York Times:

White House Adviser on ‘Green Jobs’ Resigns

Published: September 6, 2009

Van Jones resigned as the White House’s environmental jobs “czar” on Saturday, after weeks of controversy over his past comments and affiliations had slowly escalated.

Van Jones speaking at a conference in Las Vegas last month.


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Appointed as a special adviser for “green jobs” by President Obama, Mr. Jones did not go through the traditional vetting process for administration officials who must be confirmed by the Senate. So it was not until recently that some of Mr. Jones’s past actions received broad airing, including his derogatory statements about Republicans in February and his signature on a 2004 letter suggesting that former President George W. Bush might have knowingly allowed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to occur in order to use them as a “pre-text to war.”

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