More historic appointments

[Auld Phart]

So the justification for the current admin doing this is that the last admin which according to you was the worst in history did it?

For that idiot, it all comes down to:


BUT TRUMP

 

[Couchpotato]

Welcome to the wonderful world of American politics

Do you think the Ambassador to Chile knows anything about Chilean culture or speaks the language?

Steven Dickson was qualifed.

Michael Huerta was qualified

Michael Huerta - Wikipedia

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Huerta was commissioner of New York City's Department of Ports, International Trade and Commerce from 1986 to 1989[citation needed] before leaving to serve as Executive Director of the Port of San Francisco until 1993.[citation needed] From 1993 to 1998 he held senior positions at the United States Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C., serving under Secretaries Federico Peña and Rodney E. Slater during the Administration of President Bill Clinton.

Randy Babbit seems qualifed

Randy Babbitt - Wikipedia

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Randy Babbitt served multiple roles within ALPA, including Executive Administrator from 1987 to 1990. In 1990 Babbitt was elected President of ALPA and served for eight years in that position.

After leaving ALPA, Babbitt formed an airline management and financial consulting firm in Reston, Virginia, Eclat Consulting. In September 2007 the personnel of this company were merged into the Aircraft Management division of Oliver Wyman.[4]

Federal Aviation Administration[edit]​

During the Clinton Administration, President Bill Clinton appointed Babbitt to the FAA Management Advisory Council. While in that capacity Babbitt sat on an independent review panel advising the government on aviation safety policy.[5]

President Barack Obama formally nominated Babbitt to become the FAA Administrator on March 27, 2009.[6] Babbitt's nomination was confirmed by the US Senate on May 21, 2009; he was sworn in on June 1.[7] Babbitt succeeded Robert Sturgell and Lynne Osmus, who had both served as Acting FAA Administrator since Marion Blakey's term expired in 2007. Babbitt's FAA term was five years.[8]

Marion Blakey seems qualified

Marion Blakey - Wikipedia

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From 1993 to 2001, Blakey was the principal of Blakey & Associates, now Blakey & Agnew, a Washington, D.C. public affairs consulting firm with a particular focus on transportation issues and traffic safety.[3]

Blakey has held six previous Presidential appointments, four of which required Senate confirmation. From 1992 to 1993, Blakey served as administrator of the Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). As the nation's leading highway safety official, she was charged with reducing deaths, injuries, and economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes. Prior to her service at NHTSA, she held key positions at the United States Department of Commerce, the United States Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the White House, and the United States Department of Transportation.[3] For instance, in 1989 Blakey was appointed as a member of the Commission on Presidential Scholars. Prior to that, she was Deputy Assistant to the President for Public Affairs and Communications Planning at the White House. Prior to this Blakey was director of public affairs and special assistant to the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education. From 1982 to 1984, she was director of public affairs at the National Endowment for the Humanities. Previously Blakey served as director of that agency's youth programs and in its Office of Planning and Policy Assessment.

NTSB Chair[edit]​

NTSB Chairman Marion Blakey (third from right) during the investigation of the tail fin and rudder from American Airlines flight 587.
Prior to being named FAA Administrator, Blakey served as chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) from September 26, 2001, to September 13, 2002. During her tenure, she led a number of accident investigations including the crash of American Airlines Flight 587 in November 2001, dealing with both the highly technical aspects of the investigation as well as the highly charged public interest in the accident.[3] Blakey worked to significantly improve the Board's accident reporting process and increased industry and regulatory responsiveness to NTSB safety recommendations. Additionally, Blakey strengthened the Board's advocacy and outreach programs to promote safer travel throughout all modes of transportation. She also furthered development of the NTSB Academy as an international resource to enhance aviation safety and accident investigations.[3]

Even Jane Garvey who started out as a teacher had a background aviation safety before becoming FAA Administrator.

Jane Garvey (aviation administrator) - Wikipedia

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Teacher[edit]​

Prior to her government career, Garvey had worked as a teacher specializing in English and history at South Hadley High School.[6] She later taught at her master's degree alma mater, Mount Holyoke College.[3] She also taught at Immaculata High School in Manchester, NH from 1968 to 1970.

Public Works official[edit]​

From teaching, she made what she later described in a 2000 interview as "the biggest quantum leap" of her career: becoming an associate commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Works, which she described as "quintessentially a male agency."[3]

Her first high-profile government role was as Massachusetts Department of Public Works commissioner from 1988–1991, appointed by Gov. Michael Dukakis to oversee the start of the controversial and severely troubled "Big Dig"—Boston's "Central Artery" underground-highway project, the nation's costliest highway program—a program which the New York Times later described as part of her political "baggage."[2][7][8][9][10]

Airport director[edit]​

Her next official role was as director of Boston's Logan International Airport in the early 1990s. Garvey's principal assignments, as Logan Airport executive, were to assure freight and passenger road access to Logan during the "Big Dig" project, supervise the airport's aviation operations and planning, coordinate policies including developing a "second major regional airport," aviation noise rules, and promptly proposed high-speed, inter-city rail links connecting Logan Airport to New York City and northern New England.[2][7][8][9]


Do I need to keep going back?

There are offices that are 100% purely political appointments. Ambassadorships is certainly one of them. I don t think the Ambassador to Chile is nearly as important as the FAA Administrator.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

They want shitty traffic control and dangerous flying conditions. It creates new episodes of Air Disasters for the Smithsonian Channel.