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...addition, two of Bush's picks appear manifestly inappropriate for their posts. Yesterday brought news that Linda Chavez, Bush's choice for Labor Secretary, had an illegal immigrant living in her home who performed odd chores and received "spending money." Bush should withdraw Chavez from consideration...
...thing, a columnist leaves a paper trail. At Senate confirmation hearings, old rants - stupidities that seemed a good idea at the time - come back from the dead and cause trouble. That will be a problem for Linda Chavez...
...careers, Chavez has been a columnist. She has done what a columnist does: advanced provocative, impolitic ideas. She has shot off her mouth in the way that a mindful, foresighted and rump-covering politician would not. Chavez has shown a talent for infuriating liberals - for example, deriding "crybabies" for bringing certain sexual harassment lawsuits...
...Confirming Linda Chavez, the nominee to head the Labor Department, will chafe pro-labor Democrats and those interested in raising the minimum wage; Chavez, a former Reagan administration official, has demonstrated a strong enmity toward both...
...diversity-and-previous-GOP-administration category, Linda Chavez for secretary of labor. Chavez, who was director of the civil rights commission under President Reagan, has written extensively enough on the subject of civil rights to provide plenty of fodder for Democrats looking to make trouble for her nomination. But for now, her name ends in a "z," and she's the fourth woman on the Bush team...