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« Reply #175 on: October 01, 2021, 07:51:16 AM »

Secretary of Energy: Science Educator Bill Nye

Secretary of the Interior: Former Attorney General of Montana, Governor of Montana Steve Bullock (D-MT)

Secretary of the Treasury: Former Chairperson of the Council of Economic Advisers, Austan Goolsbee (D-TX)
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« Reply #176 on: October 01, 2021, 11:35:49 AM »

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

Secretary of State: James Stavridis (I-DC)
Secretary of the Treasury: John Allison (L-NC)
Secretary of Defense: Michael R. Pompeo (R-KS)
Attorney General: Janice Rogers Brown (R-DC)
Secretary of the Interior: Tara Sweeney (R-AK)
Secretary of Agriculture: Baylen Linnekin (L-WA)
Secretary of Commerce: Safra Catz (R-CA)
Secretary of Labor: Mike Rowe (I-CA)
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Bobby Jindal (R-LA)
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Pam Patenaude (R-VA)
Secretary of Transportation: Robert W. Poole (L-WI)
Secretary of Energy: Lynn Good (R-NC)
Secretary of Education: Clint Bolick (R-AZ)
Secretary of Veterans’ Affairs: Josue Robles (R-TX)
Secretary of Homeland Security: Kris Kobach (R-KS)

I was able to get my first choice for every position, and I would be happy to provide an explanation for every choice I made here if anyone is interested. Some of my choices are rock solid, in that I know that they are the best people for the job, from my perspective. These include Stavridis, Allison, Pompeo, Brown, Jindal, Poole, Good, Bolick and Robles. The rest are people on my short list for the position, but I have others who may be just as good. For example, Raul Labrador would be another contender for Interior, and Bruce Rastetter for Agriculture, etc.

I would also note that I would try to eliminate several of these departments if I were President. These include HUD, Commerce, Education and Energy. But because the roles would have to be filled between DeSantis's inauguration and congress eliminating the departments altogether, I put in people who would work toward running those departments in a way that I believe they should be run, absent their elimination.

This was a really fun exercise, and I really appreciate LastMcGovernite for putting it together!
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« Reply #177 on: October 01, 2021, 12:29:16 PM »

Last three picks:

Secretary of HHS: Joyce M. Johnson of MD. Rear Admiral. Surgeon General of the USCG. Practiced medicine on all seven continents.

Secretary of Labor: Bonnie Castillo of CA. NICU nurses probably saved my son's life, and nurses in general are keeping our health care system above water during this time. She's Executive Director of National Nurses United.

Secretary of Energy: Daniel Kammen of CA. UC Berkeley expert on climate change and renewable energy. Led an intergovernmental commission that won a Nobel Prize for his study of climate change. Former science envoy for the State Dept. Also the son of one of my favorite historians.

I tried to pick serious, progressive policy wonks who I could trust to administer ethically. Like Cardinal, I suppose Christian Democracy was my aim, but with a more of a social justice Christianity than a socially moderate/economically populist model that (unless I misunderstand him) he was aiming for. I wanted a diverse cabinet- both demographically and in terms of experience. Without necessarily trying for these outcomes, a majority of eight were women (Cousin, Porter, Gregoire, Castillo, Johnson, Whaley, Lance-Bottoms, Hayes) and seven identify as some kind of racial minority (Cousin, Bharara, Castillo, Becarra, Hayes, Lance-Bottoms, and Johnson--who is a member of the Wesget Sipu tribe).

On a different board, I'd be tempted to have people work out their "Dream Cabinet of the 60s/70s, or 80s/90s" or something like that if there is still interest. No drafting this time, just headhunting your cabinet.

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

Secretary of State: Ertharin Cousin (IL)
Secretary of the Treasury: Katie Porter (CA)
Secretary of Defense: Tim Walz (MN)
Attorney General: Preet Bharara (NY)
Secretary of the Interior: Christine Gregoire (WA)
Secretary of Agriculture: David Beasley (SC)
Secretary of Commerce: Greg Fischer (KY)
Secretary of Labor: Bonnie Castillo (CA)
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Joyce M. Johnson (MD)
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Nan Whaley (OH)
Secretary of Transportation: Keisha Lance Bottoms (GA)
Secretary of Energy: Daniel Kammen (CA)
Secretary of Education: Jahana Hayes (CT)
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs: Mike Michaud (ME)
Secretary of Homeland Security: Xavier Becarra (CA)
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« Reply #178 on: October 01, 2021, 03:09:34 PM »

And this is the full list!

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

Vice President: Phillip B. Scott (VT)

Secretary of State: Walter B. Jones (NC)
Secretary of the Treasury: Richard A. Cordray (OH)
Secretary of Defense: Ronald J. Rábago (TX)
Attorney General: G. Douglas Jones (AL)
Secretary of the Interior: Troy Heinert (SD)
Secretary of Agriculture: William J. Barber (NC)
Secretary of Commerce: Fiona Ma (CA)
Secretary of Labor: Paul E. Kanjorski (PA)
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Rocky J. Adkins (KY)
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Nydia M. Velázquez (NY)
Secretary of Transportation: Peter A. DeFazio (OR)
Secretary of Energy: Peter F. Welch (VT)
Secretary of Education: Brenda L. Lawrence (MI)
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs: Loree K. Sutton (NY)
Secretary of Homeland Security: Ronald L. Wyden (OR)

My vaguely social democratic, left-liberal cabinet with a populist flavor. I am proud of it, and only a few people I wanted were taken before I could pick them. I will admit it's not particularly diverse though. Including the President and Vice President, I have 10 white men, one white woman, one Latina, one Latino, one black man, a black woman, and an Asian woman. I do have a native man though, which not everybody else can say. Despite that, I'm proud of the cabinet, Cordray will be perfect to implement Brown's economic agenda, Jones and Jones will bring justice at home and abroad, and the whole of the cabinet is ready to get to work for the workingman and woman.
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« Reply #179 on: October 01, 2021, 04:41:13 PM »

Like Cardinal, I suppose Christian Democracy was my aim, but with a more of a social justice Christianity than a socially moderate/economically populist model that (unless I misunderstand him) he was aiming for.

Oh no, you did not misunderstand me, that seems like a good description of mine!

Ah, I did not mention yet but since some of you have gone over diversity in your cabinets I'll go there too. My cabinet has ten men (two thirds) and five women (one third). It also has people of pretty much all races and ethnicities: a majority are White, Jackson, Boudreaux and Barrow are Black, Cao is Asian, Jordan is Native American and Kahele is a Pacific Islander (Native Hawaiian); Roybal-Allard is also Hispanic. The President and Vice President are both White men however. In terms of experience I picked quite a lot of state legislators but otherwise few distinctive trends.
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« Reply #180 on: October 01, 2021, 09:17:21 PM »

I'll go with Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) for Transportation and Eric Garcetti (D-CA) for Transportation, now for the rest: Marcia Fudge (D-OH) for Agriculture, Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) for HHS, Glenda Ritz (D-IN) for Education, Don Beyer (D-VA) for VA, Susan Rice (D-ME) for Homeland Security, and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) for Treasury


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« Reply #181 on: October 02, 2021, 11:19:52 AM »


The Inslee Cabinet

President: Jay Inslee (Member of Congress for Edmonds-San Juan)
Vice President: Terri Sewell (Birmingham-West Alabama)
Secretary of State: Barbara Lee (Oakland-Berkeley-Alameda)
Secretary of the Treasury: John Yarmuth (Louisville)
Secretary of Defense: Ruben Gallego (Phoenix Central)
Attorney General: Jamie Raskin (Rockville-Silver Spring-Westminster)
Secretary of the Interior: Jared Huffman (California Northern Coast)
Secretary of Agriculture: James McGovern (Worcester)
Secretary of Commerce: Yvette Clarke (Flatbush-Sheepshead Bay)
Secretary of Labor: Debbie Dingell (Ann Arbor-South Wayne)
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Brian Higgins (Buffalo-Niagara)
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Emanuel Cleaver (Kansas City-West Missouri)
Secretary of Transportation: Chuy Garcia (Chicago West-Berwyn-Riverside-Elmwood)
Secretary of Energy: Kathy Castor (Tampa)
Secretary of Education: Judy Chu (San Gabriel-San Marino)
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs: Chrissy Houlahan (Chester-Reading)
Secretary of Homeland Security: Veronica Escobar (El Paso)


That completes my parliamentary cabinet, assuming Inslee stayed in the US House of Parliament. Beyond that everyone here was a member of Congress and all are in districts won in 2018 and by Joe Biden.

The goals for this cabinet were:
-Fair representation across geography, gender and ethnicity/race
-Cabinet aligned with Inslee's 2020 policies
-The so-called right person for the job
-Consider a parliamentary cabinet and whether legislators are good fits for the role.

I guess I cheated, because I took that anyone who would be in a cabinet now would've had to have been a representative in the 2010s.

I think this does a fair job of all four goals. There were two people who didn't make it because they were already picked: Peter DeFazio (Transportation) and Elaine Luria (Veterans Affairs), but a small silver lining is that bigger states are represented. There are nine men and eight women as well, which I was able to preserve.
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« Reply #182 on: October 04, 2021, 06:43:17 PM »

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« Reply #183 on: October 04, 2021, 06:51:09 PM »

Interior Secretary Raul Grijalva
(If not available, BLM director Tracy Stone Manning)

Secretary of Defense: Eric Fanning

Secretary of Agriculture: Marcia Fudge (if not available, Kathleen Merrigan)

Secretary of Veterans Affairs: General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic

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