Anonymous sources have Anthony Foxx being chosen to be the replacement for current Secretary Ray LaHood; I don’t particularly expect much from Foxx, but then I didn’t particularly expect much from LaHood, either, which makes it all good. Foxx, for those who don’t remember, is the first-and-won’t-seek-a-second-term Mayor of Charlotte, NC; he’s apparently being ‘rewarded’ for the his work in hosting the 2012 Democratic convention that flipped the state back to full Republican control. Note the use of scare quotes; I’m not exactly sure how this is a step up.
As to Mayor Foxx’s specific qualifications, CNN is remarkably forthright in describing what it clearly considers to be the primary one: Continue reading CNN: Anthony Foxx to be next Secretary of Transportation.