Democratic Sen. Heitkamp to Talk Cabinet Post with Trump

[brooklynite]

Source: Roll Call

President-elect Donald Trump is considering adding North Dakota Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp to his Cabinet, and will meet with her on Friday in New York.

So far, the incoming chief executive has picked all Republicans to head federal departments and agencies. Presidents of both parties have in the past tried to get at least one secretary from the other party into a first-term Cabinet.

Trump and his team view Heitkamp as being an asset in any role or capacity, should she make the cut, an aide told reporters Thursday morning. She comes very highly recommended and [is] qualified, the aide added.

Heitkamp, in a statement, didnt rule out a Cabinet post.

Whatever job I do, I hope to work with the president-elect and all of my colleagues in Congress on both sides of the aisle to best support my state, she said. Every single day, my work is motivated first and foremost by how I can be most helpful to the people of North Dakota.

Read more: http://www.rollcall.com/news/democratic-sen-heitkamp-talk-cabinet-post-trump?utm_name=newsletters&utm_source=rollcallnews&utm_medium=email

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One more seat we'd need to win back in 2018.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Don't give up the Senate seat.

Who's the governor?

[still_one]

4. That is exactly why this is occurring. She is a moderate, believes in choice, but not

public funding of abortion. She needs to be in the Senate, very important

republican gov

[riversedge]

6. "Sen. Heidi Heitkamp is arguably the most endangered Democrat in the chamber,"...per DailyKOS...

email from Daily Kos today:


Senate:

• ND-Sen, ND-AL: Sen. Heidi Heitkamp is arguably the most endangered Democrat in the chamber, and incoming NRSC chair Cory Gardner has talked up Rep. Kevin Cramer as a potential challenger. Cramer, who represents the entire state in the House, hasn't said anything about his plans, and it's possible that he'll take a post in the Trump administration instead. State Sen. Tom Campbell recently told The Jamestown Sun that he's interested in running against Heitkamp, but only if Cramer doesn't. The Sun writes that Campbell will run for the Senate in a Cramer-less field, but they don't provide a direct quote from him definitively saying that.

But Campbell did make it clear that, if Cramer resigns his seat for a job with Trump, he would "immediately" run in the special election to succeed him. The Sun also says that Campbell will run for Cramer's seat in 2018 if the congressman leaves to challenge Heitkamp, but again, there's no direct quote. Heitkamp herself also hasn't made it clear that she'll seek a second term in this conservative state.

[Me.]

2. Seems As If Many Feel Free To Show Their True Colors Now

[dbackjon]

3. FFS - that would hand a seat right now to the GOP

[still_one]

5. I just called her office and left a message that she is needed in the Senate, and hope

she will stay there

[Hekate]

9. Good idea. I hope others do the same. What's the number?

[still_one]

10. [phone]

[Hekate]

11. Done this minute. I told her asst we need her in the Senate, that Trump would benefit ...

....by pulling Democratic Senators out. I said, please don't be played by him -- he is toying with Mitt Romney in a most shameful manner. Ended by saying agsin, We need her in the Senate.

Very nice assistant; thanked me for my call.

[still_one]

14. Yes they were nice. Good for you Hekate

[jmowreader]

7. I'm really surprised he hasn't offered administration posts to at least nine Senate Democrats

The only thing stopping Trump from carrying out any of his evil schemes is the fact there are going to be 48 Democrats in the Senate next term. There are sixteen D Senators from states with R governors; if he can get at least half of them...hail, Dictator Trump!

[kimbutgar]

8. So they get another Senate seat

That woman was not going to get reelected anyway.

[Hekate]

12. Call her office. See my post and still_one's upthread

[Dawson Leery]

15. We will see.

Cook/Sabato believe that Democrats will have a strong advantage since they are the out of power party.

[Grey Lemercier]

16. she would/will be in massive trouble, she won by less than 3000 votes against a Rethug who was under

investigation for corruption. Trump won the state by over 35 points, the other ND Senator, Republican Hoeven won 78.6 to 17%

[Coyotl]

13. Trying to tip the Senate balance!

She would be a noboby and lose all power in a trump admin. This is just a way to get her out of the way in the Senate.

It would also be a huge loss to Native American representation in Congress.

[Txbluedog]

17. Cabinet position

All Nicki Haley got was the thankless job at the UN! I don't think she has any chance of reelection so she might as well save herself and go do whatever Trump wants her to do

[Tarheel_Dem]

18. If there's an offer, she'll take it. Just like Mike Pence who was gonna lose the governor's race.

She won't survive a midterm election.

[YoungDemCA]

19. Heitkamp is horrible on energy/environmental issues, DAPL, etc.

Climate Hawks, a progressive super PAC that ranks Democrats on environmental issues, gave Heitkamp one of the lowest scores (-23) in 2015. She ranked only slightly higher than Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia (-26), who represents the country’s second most coal-producing state; and Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri (-29), who acknowledges climate change as a global crisis while simultaneously opposing many legislative efforts aimed at fixing it.

By comparison, Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is among the top “climate hawks,” scored a 95.

A Heitkamp nomination should trouble Americans who’ve taken the side of the Native Americans opposing the Dakota Access pipeline. The oil and gas industry was the top contributor to Heitkamp’s campaign, and it’s the industry that stands to profit by passing a pipeline under Lake Oahe near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

Heitkamp has recently been critical of the indigenous protesters, whom she has called “violent,” even as she remains silent on the critical injuries experienced by the so-called “water protectors” facing off with authorities. Earlier this year, Heitkamp praised Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier’s handling of the conflict as “stellar,” while applauding his “calm.”

Heitkamp likewise praised the Army Corps of Engineers’ order to break up the protests this month as “a needed step to support the safety of residents, workers, protesters and law enforcement.”

http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/heidi-heitkamp-trump-nominee-energy-interior-pipeline/

Unfortunately, if she gets nominated and confirmed by Trump as Energy Secretary then there is a 100% chance of a Republican who is far worse even than her on fossil fuels/drilling, climate change, DAPL, etc. (and is far worse across the board) - probably that Kevin Cramer asshole (who remember, was an early endorser of Trump and wrote his energy policy). Trump will then be able to have his cake and eat it too with a Democratic ally from North Dakota in his Cabinet and (another - Hoeven is also a Trump ally, though with more reservations than Cramer) Republican ally from North Daktoa in the Senate (and of course, a Republican House member from the state). And Trump will be hailed by the useful idiots in both Congress and the media for his "bipartisanship".

The Pussygrabber-In-Chief (or more likely, the people who recruited him - from both inside the US as well as outside i.e. the Putin regime) is playing them all like a fiddle. A fiddle of fucking fools, that is!