Pending Senate confirmation, King County Executive Ron Sims has accepted an appointment to serve as Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan in the Obama administration.
Sims has clearly been thinking about the Obama team's seven-page, 63-item questionnaire, the completion of which is required of every candidate for Cabinet and other high-ranking positions.
The questionnaire includes requests for personal and professional records, including a "list all aliases or 'handles' you have used to communicate on the Internet," and links to any blog posts and links to their Facebook pages.
In an interview with Seattle public radio station KUOW, Sims said,
Sims has tweeted sparingly on his appointment as he keeps his micro diary of the days of the life of a county executive. His Facebook profile notes, "Ron Sims, King County Executive has no recent activity." Not surprising given what's on his plate. Given the troubles some of his fellow nominees have had, you wouldn't blame the guy for going back to the questionnaire and that question about taxes....
Sims has clearly been thinking about the Obama team's seven-page, 63-item questionnaire, the completion of which is required of every candidate for Cabinet and other high-ranking positions.
The questionnaire includes requests for personal and professional records, including a "list all aliases or 'handles' you have used to communicate on the Internet," and links to any blog posts and links to their Facebook pages.
In an interview with Seattle public radio station KUOW, Sims said,
"They know I Twitter and they know I Facebook. So it's gonna be really interesting to see what the rules are. They may say to me no Twitter and then I wouldn't. So trust me, they know I Twitter. They know I'm active. It'll be up to the White House and it'll be up to Secretary Donovan about their comfort zones with my Twittering and my Facebook."
Sims has tweeted sparingly on his appointment as he keeps his micro diary of the days of the life of a county executive. His Facebook profile notes, "Ron Sims, King County Executive has no recent activity." Not surprising given what's on his plate. Given the troubles some of his fellow nominees have had, you wouldn't blame the guy for going back to the questionnaire and that question about taxes....
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