{"id":16529,"date":"2012-11-20T15:10:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T20:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16529"},"modified":"2012-11-20T15:10:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T20:10:46","slug":"holder%e2%80%99s-replacement-could-be-massachusetts-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16529\/holder%e2%80%99s-replacement-could-be-massachusetts-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Holder\u2019s Replacement Could be Massachusetts Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/11\/19\/attorney-general-holder-to-stay-into-second-term\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a> reporting that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will \u201cstay around\u201d for another year before stepping down, names are already circulating about his possible replacement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among those mentioned is Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, the official told Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Other names being mention on Capitol Hill are Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, a former state attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano\u2019s name also has been mentioned, a source told Fox News.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of these, my bet would be on Deval Patrick.\u00a0 In his second term as Massachusetts\u2019 governor, he\u2019s probably looking for something else to do now that he\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/aroy\/2012\/04\/12\/how-deval-patrick-gutted-romneycares-market-oriented-reforms\/ \" target=\"_blank\">put Romneycare on the way to bankruptcy<\/a>.\u00a0 Also, as a former Clinton era Department of Justice official, Patrick\u2019s resume checks the right box to lead DOJ.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, would Patrick be worse than Holder?\u00a0 That\u2019s hard to imagine.\u00a0 In the Obama Administration, that\u2019s a <em>potential<\/em> improvement worth supporting; the sooner the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Fox News reporting that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will \u201cstay around\u201d for another year before stepping down, names are already circulating about his possible replacement. Among those mentioned is Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, the official told Fox News. Other names being mention on Capitol Hill are Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Sen. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1358,1453,161,498,159],"class_list":["post-16529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-attorney-general","tag-department-of-justice","tag-deval-patrick","tag-eric-holder","tag-massachusetts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16529"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16536,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16529\/revisions\/16536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}