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Maybe when Bernard Kerik decided to try for the Homeland Security czarship, he figured, "What's the worst that could happen?" How 'bout everything you've ever done wrong appearing on the news...
RESIGNING. TOM RIDGE, 59, as the country's first Secretary of Homeland Security; TOMMY THOMPSON, 63, as Secretary of Health and Human Services; and JOHN DANFORTH, 68, as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Ridge's nominated replacement is BERNARD KERIK, 49, the brusque and blunt former New York City police commissioner who won praise for his calm crisis management in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks...
In calculating his odds of getting confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security, former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik and his advisers had reckoned they could handle the issue of Kerik's reputation for occasional lapses of judgment in personal matters. Or that the smell of some conflict-of-interest issues still clung to him. "Everything seemed pretty normal, at least by Washington or New York standards," his mentor and boss, former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, told TIME. "It is never pleasant. You deal with it." But they hadn't counted on the nanny. Kerik's disclosure...
...It’s interesting to find an area where businesses, government and organized labor are sitting on the same side of the table,” Bernard said...
According to Bernard, Rep. John Tierney, D-Mass., wrote a letter to the General Accounting Office asking that it conduct a study examining worker misclassification on a national scale...