President-Elect Barack Obama is piecing his cabinet together among a flurry of rumors and trial balloons about who’s getting what. One name that’s been prominently mentioned is Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano for director of Homeland Security.
In a piece for our sister publication New Times, in Phoenix, Michael Lacey argues that naming Napolitano would be a terrible, awful, not-very-good idea.
Lacey argues that the job she’s done protecting Arizona’s borders can be described as “a cocktail of medocrity” — “Consorting with anti-immigrant enforcers, indulging rank opportunism,
and adhering to failed policies seem an unlikely recipe for change we
can believe in,” he writes.
Check it out here.
— Richard Connelly
This article appears in Nov 20-26, 2008.