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Sat Nov 3, 2012, 02:28 PM Nov 2012

Judd GREGG who walked off MSNBC not to hear the President has a hilarious Wiki bio

A series of quitting one position after another, not only OBAMA's nomination of him but also Rethug nominations, the usual Rethug profiting from conflicts of interest, and then winning at Powerball!1



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...House of Representatives in 1980, and was reelected in 1982, 1984 and 1986.[10]He declined to run for re-election in 1988, and ran for Governor of New Hampshire instead.


After withdrawing from his nomination to become United States Secretary of Commerce in the presidential administration of Democrat Barack Obama on February 12, 2009, Gregg said he would "probably not" seek reelection in 2010, when his term of office is set to expire. ....


On November 14, 2008 Gregg was appointed by United States Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to serve on the five-member Congressional Oversight Panel created to oversee the implementation of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. Gregg "stepped aside" on December 1, citing his Senate workload: ....

Gregg has denied any wrongdoing in the matter and claimed that his withdrawal from consideration for the Commerce Secretary was unrelated to the White House's discovery during the vetting process of his involvement in his family's real estate investments in Pease. ....

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs issued a statement regarding Gregg's withdrawal in which he accused the senator of not following through on his alleged statements of support for Obama's economic agenda made during the vetting process ....

In February 2009 many news outlets noted that Gregg had, in 1995, voted to abolish the United States Department of Commerce. ....

Gregg won more than $850,000 in 2005 after buying $20 worth of Powerball tickets at a Washington, D.C. convenience store


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