The cabinet shuffle begins: Ashcroft, Evans resign from Bush Cabinet
Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Don Evans resigned Tuesday, the first members of President Bush’s Cabinet to leave as he headed from re-election into his second term.
Neither is a big surprise, nor indicative of problems. One would guess that Ashcroft would be exhausted and word is that Evans wants to get back to Texas. He will likely remain an advisor to the President.
And the speculation begins:
One name being mentioned for Evans’ job at Commerce is Mercer Reynolds, national finance chairman for the Bush campaign, who raised more than $260 million to get him re-elected.Speculation about a successor to Ashcroft has centered on his former deputy, Larry Thompson, who recently took a job as general counsel at PepsiCo. If appointed, Thompson would be the nation’s first black attorney general. Others prominently mentioned include Bush’s 2004 campaign chairman, former Montana Gov. Marc Racicot, and White House general counsel Alberto Gonzales.
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November 9th, 2004 at 5:37 pm
Ashcroft, Evans resign from Cabinet
Steven Taylor has the details….
November 9th, 2004 at 5:48 pm
Au Revoir, Ashcroft!
Attorney General John Ashcroft and Secretary of Commerce Don Evans have resigned from the Cabinet. Somehow, I think if the news of Ashcroft’s departure had surfaced 8 days ago, Bush would have won by 8–not three–points. Reactions elsewhere: Atrios: …
November 9th, 2004 at 8:44 pm
John Ashcroft, Don Evans Resign
Opinions on Ashcroft vary from ‘the most underappreciated, most maligned, most ridiculed, and most demonized member of the Bush cabinet’ to ‘right wing lunatic’. Unsurprising that an AG serving in the wake of 9/11 would ruffle a few feathers.
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November 10th, 2004 at 12:09 pm
John Ashcroft Resigns, Replaced with
Attorney General John Ashcroft’s resignation and replacement have been officially announced today. Ashcroft begins his letter of resignation to President Bush with Nothing in my life compares to the high honor of serving America as Attorney General in …
November 12th, 2004 at 1:22 am
I guess Racicot faced the same problems as he did when they trialballooned him for AG in 2000. Either that or he just wanted to make money.
March 27th, 2005 at 7:00 am
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