Fantasy Cabinet game, pt. 2

[RGM2609]

Carlos Curbelo for HUD

[NewYorkExpress]

For Secretary of Defense, retired Admiral, Chancellor of the University of Texas, William Harry McRaven (I-NC).

[TheFonz]

President: Ronald D. DeSantis (R-FL)
Vice President: Timothy E. Scott (R-SC)

Secretary of State: VACANT
Secretary of the Treasury: VACANT
Secretary of Defense: Michael R. Pompeo (R-KS)
Attorney General: VACANT
Secretary of the Interior: VACANT
Secretary of Agriculture: VACANT
Secretary of Commerce: VACANT
Secretary of Labor: VACANT
Secretary of Health and Human Services: VACANT
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: VACANT
Secretary of Transportation: VACANT
Secretary of Energy: Lynn Good (R-NC)
Secretary of Education: VACANT
Secretary of Veterans’ Affairs: VACANT
Secretary of Homeland Security: VACANT

[Utah Neolib]

Secretary of State: Senator Chris Coons (D-DE)

[S019]

I select Liz Cheney (U.S. Rep from Wyoming) as Secretary of Defense

[LastMcGovernite]

My Secretary of Education is former Teacher of the Year and Congresswoman from Connecticut since 2019, Jahana Hayes.

[Continential]

Mayor Walt Maddox (D-AL) as HUD Secretary.

[OBD]

Selecting John Lewis of Georgia for Attorney General.

THE LIEU ADMINISTRATION
President: Ted Lieu (D-CA)
Vice President: Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI)

Secretary of State: VACANT
Secretary of the Treasury: VACANT
Secretary of Defense: VACANT
Attorney General: John Lewis (D-GA)
Secretary of the Interior: VACANT
Secretary of Agriculture: VACANT
Secretary of Commerce: VACANT
Secretary of Labor: John Fetterman (D-PA)
Secretary of Health and Human Services: VACANT
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: VACANT
Secretary of Transportation: VACANT
Secretary of Energy: VACANT
Secretary of Education: VACANT
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs: VACANT
Secretary of Homeland Security: VACANT

[OSR stands with Israel]

John Kasich for Secretary of Commerce

[KaiserDave]

Richard Cordray for Secretary of the Treasury

Also I see everyone stole my idea for the cabinet list. Sad! Just kidding of course

The Sherrod Brown Administration
President: Sherrod C. Brown (OH)

Vice President: Phillip B. Scott (VT)

Secretary of State: VACANT
Secretary of the Treasury: Richard A. Cordray (OH)
Secretary of Defense: VACANT
Attorney General: G. Douglas Jones (AL)
Secretary of the Interior: VACANT
Secretary of Agriculture: VACANT
Secretary of Commerce: VACANT
Secretary of Labor: VACANT
Secretary of Health and Human Services: VACANT
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: VACANT
Secretary of Transportation: VACANT
Secretary of Energy: VACANT
Secretary of Education: VACANT
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs: VACANT
Secretary of Homeland Security: VACANT

[Gass3268]

South: Senator Tim Kaine (VA-D) - Secretary of State
Midwest: Senator Tom Harkin (IA-D) - Secretary of Agriculture

[LastMcGovernite]

Richard Cordray for Secretary of the Treasury

Sorry Kaiser- but while I really like the pick of Cordray at Treasury, he didn’t hold any of the required offices to be eligible for this project. Would you care to pick a different Midwesterner for the cabinet?

[KaiserDave]

Richard Cordray for Secretary of the Treasury

Sorry Kaiser- but while I really like the pick of Cordray at Treasury, he didn’t hold any of the required offices to be eligible for this project. Would you care to pick a different Midwesterner for the cabinet?

Being State AG doesn’t count? Or chair of the CFPB? Mmmm :/ Seems odd that the sort of career government worker and bureaucrat like Cordray would be excluded. Whatever.

[beesley]

NY Rep. Brian Higgins seems a good fit for Secretary of HHS given that Inslee passed a public option in office, and it's an area he has solid expertise in. He would do well in a Parliamentary style arena. So he's my choice for that role.

[beesley]

Richard Cordray for Secretary of the Treasury

Sorry Kaiser- but while I really like the pick of Cordray at Treasury, he didn’t hold any of the required offices to be eligible for this project. Would you care to pick a different Midwesterner for the cabinet?

I think there's a case for some discretion here - if anything it makes more sense than allowing John Fetterman as you did earlier. Perhaps a compromise would be to allow one free for all (re job, not location of course).

[LastMcGovernite]

Richard Cordray for Secretary of the Treasury

I think there's a case for some discretion here - if anything it makes more sense than allowing John Fetterman as you did earlier. Perhaps a compromise would be to allow one free for all (re job, not location of course).

That’s fine. Adjudicating who is and who isn’t a valid pick is more complicated than I thought. And I don’t want to discourage people from participating with my legalism. We’ll allow Cordray and going forward you can pick anyone from your assigned region who was an active public figure in the 2010s. If anyone wants to redo an earlier pick now, you can.

[KaiserDave]

Richard Cordray for Secretary of the Treasury

I think there's a case for some discretion here - if anything it makes more sense than allowing John Fetterman as you did earlier. Perhaps a compromise would be to allow one free for all (re job, not location of course).

That’s fine. Adjudicating who is and who isn’t a valid pick is more complicated than I thought. And I don’t want to discourage people from participating with my legalism. We’ll allow Cordray and going forward you can pick anyone from your assigned region who was an active public figure in the 2010s. If anyone wants to redo an earlier pick now, you can.

I appreciate the flexibility, it's the mark of a great league manager! Of course you will always have the power to strike a pick down if it is ridiculous, or doesn't make sense, or is just some dumb pundit. I just thought Cordray was really just a really sensible pick, especially with Sedevacantist clergy being selected.

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Cabinet pick #2 - Secretary of the Treasury: Jeff Merkley (U.S. Senator from Oregon since 2009).


President: John Bel Edwards (LA)
Vice President: Bob Casey (PA)

Secretary of State: VACANT
Secretary of the Treasury: Jeff Merkley (OR)
Secretary of Defense: VACANT
Attorney General: VACANT
Secretary of the Interior: VACANT
Secretary of Agriculture: VACANT
Secretary of Commerce: VACANT
Secretary of Labor: Tammy Baldwin (WI)
Secretary of Health and Human Services: VACANT
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: VACANT
Secretary of Transportation: VACANT
Secretary of Energy: VACANT
Secretary of Education: VACANT
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs: VACANT
Secretary of Homeland Security: VACANT

[LastMcGovernite]

Time for Round 3 of your cabinet draft.

Remember that for all picks, the following rules apply:
1. You cannot pick any individual who has already been drafted.
2. The intent is to make a cabinet for some time during the 2010s. As per our new rules put in place to avoid nitpicking, you can pick anyone who was a substantive public figure in the 2010s. Even if your pick passed away during or after the 2010s (such as John McCain or John Lewis or Kay Hagan), it's still legal.
3. You cannot draft someone to a position that they held in real life. For example, you cannot pick Rex Tillerson to be your Secretary of State, but you can pick him to be your Secretary of Energy.

As I stated earlier, if you want to "redo" one of your first two picks in light of these new rules, you may do so.

For the third round:

BattistaMinola, Clinton/Kaine Voter, and Our Enemy the Irish will pick from the Northeast.
UtahNeoLib, Beesley, and myself will pick from the South.
NY Express, RGM2609, Ishan, and Senator OBD will pick from the Midwest.
The Fonz, KaiserDave, Gassman, and OldSchoolRepublican will pick from the West.

A. The Northeast (ME, NH, VT, CT, MA, RI, NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, VA, DC)
B. The South (NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, LA, AR, TN, KY, WV, TX, OK) + Territories
C. The Midwest (OH, IN, IL, MI, WI, MN, IA, MO, ND, SD, KS, NE)
D. The West (CA, OR, WA, AK, HI, NV, AZ, NM, ID, MT, CO, WY, UT).


Remember that you will need to pick a...

1. Secretary of State
2. Secretary of the Treasury
3. Secretary of Defense
4. Attorney General
5. Secretary of the Interior
6. Secretary of Agriculture
7. Secretary of Commerce
8. Secretary of Labor
9. Secretary of Health and Human Services
10. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
11. Secretary of Transportation
12. Secretary of Energy
13. Secretary of Education
14. Secretary of Veterans' Affairs
15. Secretary of Homeland Security

To help you keep track of who is off the board, I've started a google sheet at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lKijLTH6JqoAZlPlzOJ1dn0DP-vM7PswwmdgpE57jCU/edit?usp=sharing.

You'll have 48 hours to make your second cabinet selection.

UtahLib and Gassman still need to make a round 1 selection, but that's okay! I tried to design this so that you could miss a round or two when life gets in the way, and jump back in. Just make a valid round 1 pick when you can.

Also- let me know if you prefer not to get a notification when a new round starts.

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Interesting

Interesting

I'm willing to do this

I'd be interested.

This sounds cool!

I'll join

I’m down. Would appreciate reminder pms though.

Sure I’m in

Interested

President: John Bel Edwards

President Dennis Kucinich then for a different flavor of crank.

[NewYorkExpress]

For Secretary of Agriculture, Former Kansas Insurance Commissioner, Governor of Kansas, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius (D-KS).

[S019]

Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) for Secretary of State

[KaiserDave]

Peter DeFazio for Secretary of Transportation

The Sherrod Brown Administration
President: Sherrod C. Brown (OH)

Vice President: Phillip B. Scott (VT)

Secretary of State: VACANT
Secretary of the Treasury: Richard A. Cordray (OH)
Secretary of Defense: VACANT
Attorney General: G. Douglas Jones (AL)
Secretary of the Interior: VACANT
Secretary of Agriculture: VACANT
Secretary of Commerce: VACANT
Secretary of Labor: VACANT
Secretary of Health and Human Services: VACANT
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: VACANT
Secretary of Transportation: Peter A. DeFazio (OR)
Secretary of Energy: VACANT
Secretary of Education: VACANT
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs: VACANT
Secretary of Homeland Security: VACANT

[RGM2609]

Jason Kander for Defense

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Cabinet pick #3 - Secretary of State: Chris Smith (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey since 1981).


President: John Bel Edwards (LA)
Vice President: Bob Casey (PA)

Secretary of State: Chris Smith (NJ)
Secretary of the Treasury: Jeff Merkley (OR)
Secretary of Defense: VACANT
Attorney General: VACANT
Secretary of the Interior: VACANT
Secretary of Agriculture: VACANT
Secretary of Commerce: VACANT
Secretary of Labor: Tammy Baldwin (WI)
Secretary of Health and Human Services: VACANT
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: VACANT
Secretary of Transportation: VACANT
Secretary of Energy: VACANT
Secretary of Education: VACANT
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs: VACANT
Secretary of Homeland Security: VACANT

[LastMcGovernite]

My pick this round is Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms for Transportation.

I'm stealing the papyrus font idea.

President: Elizabeth Warren (MA)
Vice President: Julian Castro (TX)

Secretary of State: VACANT
Secretary of the Treasury: Katie Porter (CA)
Secretary of Defense: VACANT
Attorney General: VACANT
Secretary of the Interior: VACANT
Secretary of Agriculture: VACANT
Secretary of Commerce: VACANT
Secretary of Labor: VACANT
Secretary of Health and Human Services: VACANT
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: VACANT
Secretary of Transportation: Keisha Lance Bottoms (GA)
Secretary of Energy: VACANT
Secretary of Education: Jahana Hayes (CT)
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs: VACANT
Secretary of Homeland Security: VACANT