Gov. Rendell, who knows how to work a crowd, drew laughs at a town hall meeting of 400 Philadelphia business executives at the Kimmel Center this afternoon, when he said, high-mindedly, that he would have been “a pretty poor person and pretty bad governor” for taking a job in the Obama administration when Pennsylvania's in a financial crisis with no prospects for growth in 2009.
Did anyone actually offer you a job, asked WHYY-FM Radio Times host Marty Moss-Coane, who was moderating the event run by the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.
Rendell hemmed and hawed, making his way to "no," as the audience chuckled
“With my interest in infrastructure, it would have been a great time to be Secretary of Transportation,” he said, somewhat wistfully, voicing a similar sentiment about being energy secretary.
But, he said, “the Obama folks — they are interested in more control than they’d have over me," he said, as the audience really laughed. "That’s not being critical,” he said. “If I were the president, I’d want control” too.
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Did anyone actually offer you a job, asked WHYY-FM Radio Times host Marty Moss-Coane, who was moderating the event run by the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.
Rendell hemmed and hawed, making his way to "no," as the audience chuckled
“With my interest in infrastructure, it would have been a great time to be Secretary of Transportation,” he said, somewhat wistfully, voicing a similar sentiment about being energy secretary.
But, he said, “the Obama folks — they are interested in more control than they’d have over me," he said, as the audience really laughed. "That’s not being critical,” he said. “If I were the president, I’d want control” too.
Click here for Philly.com's politics page.
The biggest four flusher know to man.— FJG JR- My hat goes off to Marty Moss-Coane, he flushed the four flusher out.— FJG JR
- Israeli Americans have even more friends in high places than African Americans--they've been at it longer. It isn't that Governor Rendell isn't qualified for a cabinet post; he is not only highly qualified but has a sizable constituency, somewhat at loggerheads with Obama's, from which to draw political strength. That's probably why the governor hasn't been selected, or at least not yet. And maybe it's for that reason that Governor Rendell ought to think about spending some time losing some weight after he leaves office, so that seven years from now, he'll still be healthy enough to make a run for the White House himself. A successful Obama administration will groom the nation's voters for more novelty. Diane Feinstein, Bobby Jindal, and of course Hillary (and many others) will also benefit from this phenomenon.— rbbloom
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