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#1 Press Secretary Snow to resign
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 10:24 am
by Dark Silver
Yahoo News wrote:
WASHINGTON - Tony Snow, the highly visible White House press secretary, will leave his job on Sept. 14 and be replaced by his deputy, Dana Perino, an administration official said Friday.
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President Bush was to announce the changes during an appearance in the White House briefing room.
Snow, ailing with cancer, had said recently he would leave before the end of Bush's presidency because he needs to make more money.
The 52-year-old Snow was a conservative pundit and syndicated talk-show host on Fox News Radio before he was named press secretary on April 26, 2006. He is the latest in a string of White House officials to head for the exits.
Friday was the last day of work for political strategist Karl Rove. Others who have left since Democrats won control of Congress are counselor Dan Bartlett, chief White House attorney Harriet Miers, budget director Rob Portman, political director Sara Taylor, deputy national security adviser J.D. Crouch and Meghan O'Sullivan, another deputy national security adviser who worked on Iraq.
Snow has been undergoing chemotherapy after doctors discovered a recurrence of colon cancer in March.
And another one gone..and another one gone and another one bites the dust...
#2
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 10:46 am
by LadyTevar
Hey... Cancer is a serious reason to quit! It's not just because he's realized how fucked the Bush Admin is....
#3
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 11:38 am
by Cpl Kendall
It could be said that he must have had cancer of the brain to take the job in the first place. And doesn't the White House have a health care plan for fucks sake?
#4
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:15 pm
by SirNitram
Holy shit, he looked like crap today. His hair's gone AWOL as well.
#5
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:35 pm
by Dark Silver
Chemo does that to a person.
I don't care the manner in that he resigns, just that he's resigning.
The fact he has cancer is indeed sad, and I hope he managed to beat the reoccurance.
#6
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:59 pm
by Cpl Kendall
What I don't get is why he has to resign because he's not getting paid enough. Doesn't the White House have paid sick leave, and don't they have a decent health care plan that would cover most of this? And I'm more than a little curious as to where he's going to find a higher paying job while he's got cancer. Who's going to hire him?
#7
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:19 pm
by SirNitram
Cpl Kendall wrote:What I don't get is why he has to resign because he's not getting paid enough. Doesn't the White House have paid sick leave, and don't they have a decent health care plan that would cover most of this? And I'm more than a little curious as to where he's going to find a higher paying job while he's got cancer. Who's going to hire him?
Fox News, Right Wing talk radio? Given he worked for the former and indeed, the job description never changed.
#8
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:21 pm
by Cpl Kendall
SirNitram wrote:
Fox News, Right Wing talk radio? Given he worked for the former and indeed, the job description never changed.
Good point. Bet they've got a better health care plan to.