E1 BUSINESS DAY C1-14 Battle Over Public Radio Executives at National Public Radio are increasingly at odds with Bush appointees leading the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
With Mr. Obama's first two choices withdrawing after revelations of past conduct, the agency has been without an Obama appointee's leading it for 16 months since he took office.
[C1.] A Battle Over Programming at National Public Radio Executives at National Public Radio are increasingly at odds with Bush appointees who are leading the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
The existing regulations and institutions were dismantled and loyal Fidesz appointees were installed in leading positions, implementing the party's policies from economics to the judiciary, from the health system to municipal government, from education to the arts.
Christie has been dogged by scandal for nearly a month after it emerged that several of his top aides and appointees called for lane closures leading to the busiest bridge in the United States, apparently as retribution against the Democratic mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey, who did not endorse the governor's re-election campaign.
In an explosive story Wednesday, the Bergen Record revealed a cache of private emails that seemed to show Christie's staff and appointees orchestrated the closure of lanes leading onto the George Washington Bridge to plague the small town of Fort Lee, whose Democratic mayor, Mark Sokolich, had failed to endorse Christie for reelection.
Its leading partners are Richard Mayo, an appointee of Gov. Pete Wilson whose duties included selling state-owned property; Grover L. McKean, a former state deputy treasurer; and Chandra R. Patel, whose biography lists real estate interests in Irvine, Mumbai and New York.
MSNBC host Steve Kornacki floated a new theory as to why New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's staff and appointees engineered the closure of two lanes leading into the George Washington Bridge last year.
And with Trump and Mike Pence, his dangerous, anti-LGBTQ vice president, leading the country, the list of appointees who oppose queer rights continues to grow. .
WASHINGTON — Hoping to unclog the Senate and spare scores of presidential appointees from what is often a grueling confirmation process, leading lawmakers in both parties are moving to cut the number of administration posts that are subject to Senate approval.
