Blumenauer on Secretary of Transportation: "I'm not interested."

Kari Chisholm

Yesterday, on C-SPAN, Congressman Earl Blumenauer addressed the suggestion -- made here at BlueOregon -- that he might be President Obama's pick to succeed Ray LaHood as Secretary of Transportation:

Q: Would you take it?

You know, I like what I'm doing and I think I can be a better advocate for livable communities and for transportation doing the work I do in Congress and in other communities than being [in] even a good bureaucracy with a president I respect. I'd like to be kind of a free agent.

Q: That sounds like a no.

I'm not interested.

Here's the full clip:

Well, that's that, I think.

By Kari Chisholm March 20, 2013 Posted in Video.

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