Andy Puzder's Hometown Paper Says He's Uniquely Unqualified to Be Labor Secretary

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediaite


by Justin Baragona 3:23 pm, February 10th, 2017

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The Carls Jr. chief has been wracked with controversy heading into his conformation hearing next week. (A hearing that has been rescheduled several times.) Leading into next weeks hearing, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has called on Puzders name to be withdrawn for consideration. It now appears Democrats case may have been given a boost by Puzders hometown newspaper.

In an [link:http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/the-platform/editorial-andrew-puzder-local-boy-made-good-has-no-business/article_989ea2cb-ae74-55f1-915b-3a04b012de98.htmleditorial in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch], Puzder was described as a misogynist who is not prepared to head up the Labor Department.

[div class"excerpt"]He is brash, outspoken, misogynistic, combative and uninterested in quarantining himself from his financial interests. Like many of Trumps nominees Rick Perry at the Energy Department, Betsy DeVos at Education, Ben Carson at Housing and Urban Development he is almost uniquely unqualified for the duties of the office to which he seeks confirmation.

Puzder perviously worked as a trial laywer in St. Louis before heading up CKE Restaurants, which runs the Hardees and Carls Jr. fast-food restaurants. CKE is currently headquartered in St. Louis but is soon moving to Nashville.

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[Turbineguy]

1. In the trump admin

"uniquely unqualified" is the foremost important attribute.

[Lindsay]

2. Ain't that the truth.

It's been obvious from the first announcements.

[FigTree]

4. I'd go as far as saying that it is, in fact, a requirement.

The whole enterprise rests on that very premise. There has been since the beginning of this circus a defining nihilistic component, whereby reality is systematically inversed and needs to be so if the centre is to hold.

[Hortensis]

3. Astonishing how reliably the 45th camp comes

up with really terrible candidates. Like to like. On the good-news side, Puzder is supposedly not necessarily completely against a minimum wage, but he does suspect $10/hour would be unworkably high.