{"id":2973,"date":"2010-01-20T10:40:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T15:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/2010\/01\/20\/tsa-nominee-withdraws-amid-political-agenda\/"},"modified":"2010-01-20T10:40:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T15:40:52","slug":"tsa-nominee-withdraws-amid-political-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/tsa-nominee-withdraws-amid-political-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"TSA Nominee Withdraws Amid &#8216;Political Agenda&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TSA Nominee Withdraws Amid &#8216;Political Agenda&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>By JULIE PACE Associated Press Writer\u00a0WASHINGTON January 20, 2010 (AP)<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration&#8217;s choice to lead the Transportation Security Administration is withdrawing his nomination.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Erroll Southers says he is withdrawing because his nomination has become a lightning rod for those with a political agenda. Obama tapped Southers to lead the TSA in September but his confirmation has been blocked by Republican Sen. Jim DeMint, who says he&#8217;s worried Southers would allow TSA employees to join a labor union.<\/p>\n<p>The White House says the president has accepted Southers&#8217; decision with great sadness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/wireStory?id=9610631\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/wireStory?id=9610631<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TSA Nominee Withdraws Amid &#8216;Political Agenda&#8217; By JULIE PACE Associated Press Writer\u00a0WASHINGTON January 20, 2010 (AP) The Obama administration&#8217;s choice to lead the Transportation Security Administration is withdrawing his nomination. In a statement, Erroll Southers says he is withdrawing because his nomination has become a lightning rod for those with a political agenda. Obama tapped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-LX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}