Is it that she wants to keep her political path separate and independent from Biden's or just that the offer wasn't good enough?
Bottoms had been rumored to be under consideration to be secretary of Housing and Urban Development or to head the Small Business Administration, a cabinet-level post. A reporter for the New Yorker said Friday she’d been offered the less prestigious role of ambassador to the Bahamas. The transition denied that report on Friday, and Taylor did again Saturday.
Ambassador to the Bahamas!
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Her office reported she turned down SBA.
There's way more graft to be had delivering fraud votes from Atlanta to the Democrats than ambassador to Bahamas or whatever else.
Is it just me or does Lance Bottoms sound like the name of a porn star?
Not able to pass back ground check
She has the approximate intelligence level of Joe Biden, Mebbe a little dumber. I’m guessing this will repeat itself with all of his appointments.
A good possibility Iowan2.
"Ambassador to the Bahamas!"
With all the killing in Atlanta on her watch, it would be a good escape.
Nobody in their right mind would turn down ambassador to the Bahamas. Beautiful tropical beaches and offshore bank accounts. It's the perfect job! Plus, you know you'll never be asked to do anything about the sketchy financial deals going down as that would expose the corruption of the American political class. She's a fool.
Ambassador to the Bahamas usually goes to a big time fundraiser, not to a politician. I wonder what the Mayor of Atlanta could have done for Joe that so helped his election that it’s equivalent to raising tens of millions of dollars?
She was mayor of Atlanta. Good god. Could she have been mayor of D town Austin, TX. No way.
The people of Atlanta must have a sense of humor. You couldn't make up a name like that.
Ambassador to the Bahamas would be a nice gig, but it isn't the stepping stone to national office that has an ambitious up and comer rubbing her hands together.
Just from the name I'm tempted to look up her picture.
They don’t Mockturtle.
A reporter for the New Yorker said Friday she’d been offered the less prestigious role of ambassador to the Bahamas.
Ambassador to the Bahamas!
Couldn't make the trip because she let someone borrow all four of her suitcases.
She’s fat and ugly rhardin.
You can't really tell. They're all front shots and she's sort of chunky.
I mean you want to know if there's a Hottentot thing going on.
So now Stacey Abrams will be offered the Ambassador to Bahamas job.
In a bizarre coincidence, Lance Bottoms and the Bottomfeeders will be playing at my local bar next weekend.
Ambassador to the Bahamas is an unimportant position. It is given as a reward to a large donor who thinks it awesome to be able to list "ambassador" in his or her bio without having to do any real work other than enjoy an island paradise and show up for parties. For someone who wants to have a real career in politics or the diplomatic corps, it is basically worthless. When you are planning on destroying small business - something that has been pursued with vigor this year by Democrats and select Republicans - being in charge of the SBA is pretty worthless. I could very much believe someone compared being head of the SBA as the equivalent of being ambassador to the Bahamas and hence the confusion.
Do remember that our media are pretty dim bulbs. Being a journalist these days requires essentially no qualifications other than being able to write on an elementary school level and regurgitating the correct political beliefs on command.
Could do worse then hanging around Nassau. Plus there’s a McDonalds next door to the embassy. What’s not to like.
Binders full of Black women.
There were fine people on both sides at the meeting about whether to offer her a cabinet post.
Anything is a step up from being mayor of a big American city. Even mayor of a small American city.
Blogger mccullough said...
"So now Stacey Abrams will be offered the Ambassador to Bahamas job."
I hope she checks with Hank Johnson. Abrams could easily tip over a large island.
Bottoms had been rumored to be under consideration to be secretary of Housing and Urban Development or to head the Small Business Administration, a cabinet-level post
Translation: Bottoms and her friends in the Biden campaign were telling reporters that she was under consideration in hopes of making it happen. Instead she was quietly told that the best they could do was Ambassador to the Bahamas and she told them 'no.'
If that Bahamas gig is still available, I’m willing to register D for four years.
She's got a haircut made for anime.
Maybe she decided to wait a few weeks and see what President Harris offers.
Re Bob Boyd : No, it's not just you.
Also, why hasn't Kamalla Harris resigned her Senate seat?
Or, maybe she wants to go somewhere you don't have to wear a swimmin' suit.
It's all speculation at this point.
Who cares about this Bloomberg News?
Perhaps Bloomberg News should compare and contrast the incoming Biden's appointee's laughable background [I bet it's polisci major or sociology] versus the outgoing Cabinet Member, Dr. Ben Carson, who is arguably a certified genius.
Ambassador to Da Hoods would have been so much more prestigious.
And appropriate.
AA, this A.M. I've seen you report about Atlanta's politician, statures in Madison, yet no coverage of the Wisconsin's Supreme Court hearing. I'd like to get your take, as a Constitutional Lawyer and Educator has to the two Wisconsin Supreme Court Judges who opined that Trump's lawsuit was about racism and "keeping the King in power". Even California, where I live, we don't have crazies like these judges on the CA Supreme Court. Truly unbelievable that voters in Wisconsin would vote for despicable people like that for the highest court in Wisconsin. Courts are going the way of every institution controlled by Democrats. Creditability shot and people notice over time the rot begins to take its toll. 'Boston Tea Party' time?
For stealing GA for Biden, she deserved more.
As noted above, more graft and money to be made in Atlanta.
Hstad
One of those crazies is a UW Law grad.
I nominate Dan Rather for Press Secretary. To restore the honor taken from him.
Bahamas got hammered by hurricane last year. A lot of that job maybe entails
determining how aid should be directed.
"In 2015 [Bottoms] and others chastised a city public-safety board for erecting billboards advising “don’t run” from cops, prompting the board to suspend what it deemed a common-sense advertising campaign.
"One of the things I will always teach my children is that they have the right to run. It may be ill advised but the issue is not with them exercising their rights but the response to them exercising their rights," she said in a meeting."
Lotta opportunity for scuba diving in that Bahamas Ambassadorship, for which Lance Bottoms seems a natural fit. I can see where Biden was going with this. Pick a guy whose first name is "General" for Secretary of Defense. Aaron Judge for the next SCOTUS vacancy. Keep it simple, don't overthink.
She may have seen the writing on the wall about the disastrous future that awaits the Biden administration.
"One of the things I will always teach my children is that they have the right to run. It may be ill advised but the issue is not with them exercising their rights but the response to them exercising their rights," she said in a meeting."
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Anybody who's even watched a cop show knows you can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride.
Atlanta is a vibrant, booming metropolis. The best major metro area I ever lived in. The Bahamas is a nice place to go for 3 days. Sometimes.
She'll do well to steer clear of the Biden/Harris mess, which will be a two-year facepalm Presidency followed by a two year mistake. If she can stay clear of it, while Atlanta continues to grow and take in more people and companies, she'll be someone the Dems will need to look at. To be the token POC running HUD seems a dead end.
With all the dark cash flowing in and out of the Bahamas, gotta think being ambassador can lead to some lucrative post-government opportunities.
rhhardin said...
I mean you want to know if there's a Hottentot thing going on.
For you.
I wonder what she might have done for the Biden campaign that makes her think that she deserves a cabinet post? Is there anything special that someone who controlled vote-counting in Atlanta might have done for the campaign? It’s not like she has anything to do with water mains. It’s a real mystery why she might think the campaign owes her something.
First Susan Rice takes a nothing job as the White House domestic policy advisor - not in her background - and Keisha Lance Bottoms says "no" to appointment as Ambassador to the Bahamas - an insult for the Atlanta major - albeit close to home. Both of these ladies were declared frontrunners to be Biden's VP but have now been thrown under the bus. Can you spell "Kamala?" - who wants her 2024 competition out of the way.
She doesn't want to be caught in the CCP-gate backlash when China Joe is indicted for money laundering and treason.
Reminiscent of when Carol Moseley Braun was made ambassador to New Zealand - because we didn't have an embassy on Mars.
Sorry. I'm not doing the voting cases. It would take a lot of work to do it right, and I refuse to do it in a bullshit way that just sides with somebody or other. I've got to be in or out on that one. It would take a lot of time, and I don't want to spend my time that way, not without getting paid a lot of money, and there's no one who would pay for the work that I would do on this thing, because it wouldn't be partisan, firebrand shit. So you all can stew in your own juices. I'm out.
rhhardin said...
I mean you want to know if there's a Hottentot thing going on.
He likes big butts and he cannot lie
You Althousians can't deny
That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
And a round thing in your face....
She is not that fat...
She is big, but not fat.
An offer designed to be rejected.
Her reward for her role in helping turn Atlanta into a total slum.
First thought: Georgia will flip to the Democrats and she wants to be the one who flips it and does what Abrams and (presumably) Warnock couldn't do.
Second thought: Whatever they offered her probably wasn't something she though was good enough for her.
Suppressed thought: She could see the coming catfights with Kamala up ahead and wanted to avoid them.
I hadn't come across the story about "go ahead, run from the police" before, but in general I thought Bottoms was one of the better Dem office holders in the past year. Atlanta is surely one of the biggest success stories of large American cities with large African-American populations.
Geez, Prof!
Not that I blame you. Why do so many people think it their business to pose legal puzzles and exercises for you?
Narr
That's a rhetorical question
Re: Bob Boyd:
Lance-Bottoms sounds vaguely Wodehousian to me, like Fink-Nottle.
Anyhow, Bahamas isn't that bad, as a location to keep someone sidelined. That's why they sent the Duke of Windsor therr during the war, after all.
Probably afraid of a hair pull fight with President Harris.
Once they started investigating her for a potential appointment, Keisha Lance Bottoms turned out to be too dirty to promote up. This happens all the time with Democrat mayors in Atlanta. Bill Campbell was supposed to be elevated in the Clinton administration: they sniffed around and he went to prison instead. Shirley Franklin is perennially shortlisted, and then her crooked airport concession deals come up. Kasim Reed was supposed to be considered for an Obama slot, even VP: they sniffed around and realized he was too crooked to promote, and he'll probably end up in prison. Keisha is well-known as a crook who nearly got indicted for "working" two full-time jobs, one as city counselor and the other as the head of the most corrupt city sinecure, the Atlanta and Fulton County Recreation Authority, which exists solely to dole out no-show jobs to relatives of elected officials. She also let armed protesters take over the burned-out Wendy's where Rayshard Brooks was shot, leading to three additional shootings including an 8-year old child murdered as her mother tried to steer clear of the violent mob. Keisha was "negotiating" with the "occupiers" when the child was killed, even as residents were under siege and two people had been shot previously by them.
Yet Biden still considered her and offered her something. If only we had something like a 24-hour cable news network in Atlanta to report these things.
Too many pigs for the teats.
She has a tremendous sense of entitlement. After she gave a fine speech denouncing rioters, she was talked about as a possible vice presidential pick. Biden had made clear he was going to pick a black woman, and all of a sudden she had national buzz. When she wasn’t picked, she took a few spa days to recover from the disappointment.
Personally, I would think more of her leadership if Secoria Turner hadn’t been shot dead at age 9 by a militia illegally occupying a part of her city, but yeah - it sure was a fine speech she gave.
Mayor of Atlanta seems like a more prestigious position than any of these. Ambassador to the Bahamas, however, sounds like a pretty plum gig, prestige and sense of purpose aside.
and she just go, Um, um, um, um, um, um
Um, um, um, um, um, um
Sorry, city commissioner, not counselor. And she's still Mayor of Atlanta. So that's four up, four out. Tom Wolfe wrote a good book about race and Mayors in Atlanta.
It seems obvious to me that
mayor of major American city > member of cabinet
Maybe that's just me.
Atlanta has benefitted from being the state capitol, just like most other state capitols. This has been a trend for many decades now: it's a process similar to the concentration of wealth around DC but localized.
That said, Atlanta is a pretty nice place. It's too big for my tastes, though, and I've never been in or through the city (except at 11pm or later) that traffic wasn't an issue. I once spent 30 minutes trying to get out of a parking lot--30 minutes just to get to the road!
Narr
I wonder if Cheetahs is still there
Althouse said...
Sorry. I'm not doing the voting cases. It would take a lot of work to do it right, and I refuse to do it in a bullshit way that just sides with somebody or other. I've got to be in or out on that one. It would take a lot of time, and I don't want to spend my time that way, not without getting paid a lot of money... So you all can stew in your own juices. I'm out.
Sounds familiar, like it could have been written by 7 members of the US Supreme Court refusing to even hear a claim in their original jurisdiction.
If it's not money, what is their excuse?
I buy the "political question" dodge, honestly, before I buy the "standing" argument.
But "petitioner's lack of standing" makes them seem less, ahem, dodgy and political.
"With all the killing in Atlanta on her watch, it would be a good escape."
Bahamas is No. 11 in the world murder rate derby.
Yes, Narr, you can still catch the prime rib and stripper gonorrhea lunch special at Cheetah's.
The (principled, centrist-independent) councilwoman whom Keisha barely defeated still has an open federal investigation into the voter fraud that lost her two Atlanta mayoral runs against crooked black opponents. Both times, Mary Norwood was ahead and lost by only a few hundred votes discovered after all the votes were "counted." Norwood has provided some statement for one of the Georgia voter cases. She's not a Republican and has basically signed her own death warrant for speaking out. Nobody knows more than Norwood about voter fraud in Atlanta. She is widely respected for fighting fraud in city hall, at horrible personal cost: John Lewis broadcast one of his sleazy "klansman" speeches telling black Atlantans to vote for Keisha and against Norwood "or face waterhoses and police dogs the next time they vote." Soundtrack accompanied by snarling dogs, on the radio. This is what you get when you elect Democrats. Or maybe don't.
She endorsed Biden early - the day after the "that little girl was me" debate.
Except for the statement from the Mayor's advisor the sourcing on this is nothing more than gossip - "A reporter for The New Yorker said" - Jeeze.
"So you all can stew in your own juices."
That statement seems to apply to everyone, including those here who support you, enjoy your work and send you money.
Why?
Is it the Harris people who are making the decisions on what to offer to whom? I could see them wanting to offer her something, just to say they did, but not wanting to offer her something that could give her a boost so that she could be competition for Harris in 2024.
Althouse had been assuming that the democrats meant well, and is now out rather than having to notice that the republicans seem to be the ones meaning well.
Trump does man-jokes.
There's waaaaay too much money to be made in graft as the mayor of shithole Atlanta.
"So you all can stew in your own juices."
That's okay by me. I'm fortunate to be possessed of excellent juices. There are not many people who's juices I'd rather stew in.
"Althouse had been assuming that the democrats meant well, and is now out rather than having to notice that the republicans seem to be the ones meaning well."
There's no basis for that statement. You are just talking bullshit partisan talk. That's easy to do and I wouldn't need to be paid to do the work it would take to produce that sort of drivel. To do the issues right would be take me hours and I don't see the value. No one would take the trouble to read it and no one would care. You'd just make assumptions along partisan lines the way you do when I don't bother with any analysis at all. So I'm being very efficient.
Ambassador to the Bahamas...
Talk about opportunities for bureaucratic cost-cutting... why do we need all of these worthless ambassador positions to these tiny states? Couldn’t some other ambassador handle the Bahamas in his spare time? For example, couldn’t the ambassador to Mexico handle the Bahamas on, say, Tuesday’s between 2:00-3:00 PM?
The opportuniy for graft is greater in Atlanta.
For the last two generations, Atlanta has been the go-to destination for ambitious African American professionals. It's a hell of a lot more dynamic than, say, San Francisco, and I'll bet it hasn't attracted as many addicts who move there so they can shoot up and poop on the streets. Mayor Bottoms spoke well for her city after the rioting began, which set her apart from many other mayors.
If I were she, I'd stay put.
@Rusty
See my comment at 12:49...great minds think alike : )
She turned down what she was not offered.
Uh, Joe, if the job is still open, I'll take the Ambassador to the Bahamas job. I'll do a great job, too. I won't get embarrassingly drunk and I'll serve proper cocktails to my guests, not those silly Caribbean thingies with flags and umbrellas in them. Once a week, I'll send you a long text message telling you about everything that we did and everyone we met. So, is it a deal?
She doesn't look to need more sun, anyways.
wasn't maxine waters husband, chairman of united bank, ambassador to the bahamas,
Is it that she wants to keep her political path separate and independent from Biden's
Bingo. She has a good shot at becoming governor and is much more electable than that racist, sexist Stacy Abrams. And Governors make good presidential candidates. Why waste her time with Biden?
Is it just me or does Lance Bottoms sound like the name of a porn star?
No, you're thinking of his brother Randy.
Bilwick said...
Her reward for her role in helping turn Atlanta into a total slum.
Clearly you've never been there. I lived in Druid Hills near the Emory campus. Mercedes and BMWs everywhere.
Ambassador to the Bahamas! Getting her out of the country, eh????????????????????
BAD Biden! BAD!!!
Unfortunately I live there, Skippy. All the Mercedes and BMWs are the equivalent of lipstick on a pig.
MD Greene and Skippy. Don't believe what the news boosters tell you. Bottoms may have said pretty thing to the sycphant press, but she wrongly fired an officer who did no wrong and then pumped up the racial riots against police. She made police stand down and let armed "protesters" occupy the streets, leading to three shootings of innocent passersbys including the murder of an 8 year old, which she then blamed on the police -- who weren't allowed to keep order. Police morale is gone. She refused to stop riots at and around the state capitol, resulting in multiple beatings of white pedestrians and preventing lobbyists like me from testifying in crucial hearings. She used thugs to shut down the legislative process and freeze commerce in downtown. Small business owners have given up. Cops are quitting in droves. Street racing has claimed a half dozen lives; shooting have more than doubled, and she called in a sleazebag leftist anti-cop DC operative, Chuck Wexler, to "advise police on sensitivity" rather than appoint a real chief.
Yeah, things are going swimmingly. Enjoy your privately patrolled hoods. Dozens of people I know in downtown and South Atlanta are hiding in their houses more scared than they've ever sounded.
MD Greene and Skippy. Don't believe what the news boosters tell you. Bottoms may have said pretty thing to the sycphant press, but she wrongly fired an officer who did no wrong and then pumped up the racial riots against police. She made police stand down and let armed "protesters" occupy the streets, leading to three shootings of innocent passersbys including the murder of an 8 year old, which she then blamed on the police -- who weren't allowed to keep order. Police morale is gone. She refused to stop riots at and around the state capitol, resulting in multiple beatings of white pedestrians and preventing lobbyists like me from testifying in crucial hearings. She used thugs to shut down the legislative process and freeze commerce in downtown. Small business owners have given up. Cops are quitting in droves. Street racing has claimed a half dozen lives; shooting have more than doubled, and she called in a sleazebag leftist anti-cop DC operative, Chuck Wexler, to "advise police on sensitivity" rather than appoint a real chief.
Yeah, things are going swimmingly. Enjoy your privately patrolled hoods. Dozens of people I know in downtown and South Atlanta are hiding in their houses more scared than they've ever sounded.
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