{"id":19803,"date":"2017-02-16T03:39:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T03:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19803"},"modified":"2017-02-16T03:40:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T03:40:30","slug":"puzder-pulls-out-thanks-to-ex-wifes-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19803","title":{"rendered":"Puzder pulls out, thanks to ex-wife&#8217;s interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/andy-puzder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19804\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/andy-puzder-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/andy-puzder-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/andy-puzder-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/andy-puzder-1024x554.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/andy-puzder.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Puzder shouldn&#8217;t have been nominated as labor secretary in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>He favors automation; he opposes the minimum wage; he is no friend of the working man and woman.<\/p>\n<p>None of that doomed his nomination. Oh, no! The death knell was rung when a decades-old videotape surfaced that shows Puzder&#8217;s former wife telling Oprah Winfrey that Puzder abused her. He threatened her, bullied her.<\/p>\n<p>Puzder &#8212; a fast-food restaurant mogul &#8212; then pulled out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/02\/senate-republicans-tell-white-house-to-withdraw-puzder-nomination-235062\">Vetting, anyone?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have blogged already about Donald Trump&#8217;s lack of vetting as he has looked for Cabinet officers. I thought the worry was overblown.<\/p>\n<p>But here we are. A labor secretary who apparently hadn&#8217;t been vetted properly being done in by an old videotaped interview.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that a lot more careful vetting of Puzder&#8217;s history could have prevented the president from suffering this embarrassing end to one of his Cabinet selections.<\/p>\n<p>That presumes, of course, that Donald Trump would be <em>embarrassed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Puzder shouldn&#8217;t have been nominated as labor secretary in the first place. He favors automation; he opposes the minimum wage; he is no friend of the working man and woman. None of that doomed his nomination. Oh, no! The death knell was rung when a decades-old videotape surfaced that shows Puzder&#8217;s former wife telling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19803\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Puzder pulls out, thanks to ex-wife&#8217;s interview<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,14],"tags":[6934,795,1424,2710,2712,3433],"class_list":["post-19803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-andrew-puzder","tag-cabinet","tag-donald-trump","tag-labor-department","tag-labor-secretary","tag-oprah-winfrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19806,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19803\/revisions\/19806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}