Obama Nominates Anthony Foxx As Next DOT Head

by Derek Kreindler

April 30th, 2013 9:23 PM

obama nominates anthony foxx as next dot head

President Obama announced the nomination of Anthony Foxx, the current mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina, as his choice to succeed Ray LaHood as the next head of the Department of Transportation.

While LaHood’s legacy will largely relate to distracted driving legislation and an increase in the CAFE standard, little is known about how Foxx will align himself and the DOT on auto related issues. So far, much of Foxx’s transportation related work involves infastructure, specifically mass transit projects for his home city.

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Zackman on May 01, 2013

All these posts recall to mind 40+ years ago: DOT Doug Thoms and his 5,000 lb. "Safety Car", complete with periscope so you could see what was behind you. All I hope for is that the highways are kept in good repair, steady improvements/replacements for the existing roads and bridges and more passenger trains. You know, what the Dept. of Transportation is SUPPOSED to do.

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Seabrjim on May 01, 2013

Being a red blooded black man can I weigh in? Forget the fact that Obama is 50% Caucasian,42%+/- Arabic a 7%+/- African. Did it really surprise anyone that qualifications did not matter as much as looks? How about someone from Detroit(the former automotive mecca, not the present war zone)?

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- Summicron on May 01, 2013
  
  Good points. I think Obama's "blackness" is just another tool on his mental thumbdrive of political pandering apps. He is more accurately a slightly tanned reincarnation of his white mother's burning hatred of America and its perceived effect on the struggling 3rd world micro-economies she adopted, combined with a truly messianic ego playing to a voter base of unparalleled naivete. And I wish more self-identified balck people would weigh in on the forums I frequent. Race hatred is growing in this country, fed by the imploding economy and fanned by media and politicians of all stripes. Open discussion is needed.
  
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- Dolorean on May 01, 2013
  
  @Summicron 30% of Americans believe Obama is a secret Muslim, 13& believe he's the Anit-Christ and 4% believe Lizard people control politics (latest Public Policy Polling poll) and Sum people believe Obama uses his 'blackness' for political points. Funny that no one ever accused Dubbya for propogating his effervescent whiteness. Fun thing is 'Murica is an incredibly ignorant population, regardless of the subject. Foxx seems to be a good choice and the rest, time will tell.
  
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- Summicron on May 01, 2013
  
  @dolorean I'd agree with most any vile thing you'd care to lay at W's expensively booted feet.
  
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- Geeber on May 01, 2013
  
  dolorean: Funny that no one ever accused Dubbya for propogating his effervescent whiteness. You must have missed the pundits and hysterics - and not from the right - who claimed that the Christian George W. Bush was going to turn the United States into a big, evangelical version of Saudi Arabia. Or that 9/11 was an inside job. Or that the Koch Brothers are conservative activists who are out to rule America (never mind that they support gay marriage and legalized marijuana). Or that Walmart is responsible for every bad thing - short of erectile dysfunction - that has happened since the Dust Bowl.
  
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- Dolorean on May 01, 2013
  
  @geeber Been trying to edit that comment Summicron, sory bout that, but TTAC editing wont load for some reason. @geeber, to your first point, really? 'Murica didn't become a more evangelical radical place since W's Presidentc? Beg to differ. Second, left AND right wing pundits both espoused 9/11 was an inside job. Tin-foil hat conspiricists know no political affiliation sometimes. Finally, I do believe Wally World is responsible for many things I would characterize as shameful, but would never claim it to be responsible for all.
  
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- 28-Cars-Later on May 01, 2013
  
  @geeber I had a similar problem with the editor.
  
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- Geeber on May 01, 2013
  
  @geeber If you believe that American has become a more "evangelical radical place" since the Bush's presidency, you don't have any idea of what evangelicals really believe, and apparently are not up on current events as to what is happening in this country. As for Walmart - let's compare it to Costco (the retail chain usually held up to put Walmart in a bad light) using actual figures. Walmart generated about $200,000 per employee in revenue last year, while Costco generated about $1 million per employee in revenue. So Walmart employs five people for every $1million in revenue, while Costco employs one person. Walmart is providing more jobs - granted, lower paying ones, but jobs nonetheless - for every dollar of revenue. Walmart moving to Costco's business model would result in the firing over 1.7 million employees. I don't believe that this is the result people had in mind when they compared Walmart to Costco. Unless we believe that people are better off being unemployed as opposed to working. As for the 9/11 conspiracy theorists - I googled "9/11 truthers" and found a list of people who believe that the federal government was behind 9/11, complete with their statements to that effect. The names? Michael Moore, Janeane Garofolo, Ed Asner, David Lynch, Rosie O'Donnell, Roseanne Barr, Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen and Ed Begley, Jr., for starters. Seems pretty overwhelmingly left wing to me...
  
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Kevin on May 01, 2013

It's sad that exactly 14 of 32 posts are on topic, and of those one is crying about how Obama is a socialist. The rest is all racism. How pathetic.

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- Chocolatedeath on May 01, 2013
  
  I agree. I come to sites like this for my love of cars. Sometimes politics plays a part in it(EPA, Bailouts) sometimes tits and ass are included (both babes). I dont care or give a rats ass about someones race, political leanings or sexual orientation. I just want to talk and read about F@$king cars.
  
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- Summicron on May 01, 2013
  
  @Chocolatedeath Find me a site about anything anywhere that doesn't have the same thing happening in its comments. And public discourse is only going to get more rancorous. Besides, this particulat story was about a political appointee, so it got political.
  
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- SqueakyVue on May 01, 2013
  
  @Summicron The most relevant post was "I washed cars 2 summers in college."
  
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Beerboy12 on May 01, 2013

I truly sickens me that race was brought into this thread. It is not necessary. History is against you, just don't go there.

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