thought I'd repost this nepotism article-can we do something about THAT?

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A10476-2002Mar11¬Found=true

In the Bush administration, governing is a family matter.

Two weeks ago, the State Department announced that Elizabeth Cheney, the vice president's daughter, would become a deputy assistant secretary of state. Her husband, Philip Perry, last week left the Justice Department to become chief counsel for the Office of Management and Budget. There, Cheney's son-in-law will join OMB Director Mitchell E. Daniels Jr., whose sister, Deborah Daniels, is an assistant attorney general.

That's just the beginning. Among Deborah Daniels's colleagues at Justice is young Chuck James, whose mother, Kay Coles James, is the director of the Office of Personnel Management, and whose father, Charles Sr., is a top Labor Department official. Charles James Sr.'s boss, Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao, knows about having family members in government: Her husband is Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), and her department's top lawyer, Labor Solicitor Eugene Scalia, is the son of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
-more in article-

[brentblack]

1. Meh....standard politics

It would be near impossible to find any politician that does not hand out plum jobs to friends and family. This applies to local, state and national offices. It is appalling, but SOP in both parties.

The good news is that most of these people lose the job when their benefactor leaves office...so let it be with Cheney.