G. Locke, Commerce Secretary?
So, Bill Richardson was a bust since he was tied to scandals and Judd Gregg (or is it Gregg Judd) just couldn’t hack it. So who does Barack “All You Can Be” Obama bring to the table? None other than Gary Locke, former Governor of the State of Washington. Yeah. Guess that posh job being a partner at Davis Wright and Tremaine, LLP was getting old.
You can check the news at Huffington and at all your favorite Asian American blogs, but you can’t check this photo I snapped at the Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle anywhere else. I guess they didn’t donate enough to make the plaque for the room. (No, not really.)
Was G. Locke a good governor? Depends on what you define as good. I’d say he was alright. He is a “political centrist”, which in my book, means he is conservative. So, he’ll fit right in with the others in the Obama cabinet. He was mostly loved in Washington and he served 8 years as Governor. Beyond that, I can’t say anything else more exciting about him. From Wikipedia:
Democrats criticized Locke for embracing the Republican Party’s no-new-taxes approach to dealing with Washington’s budget woes during and after the 2001 economic turmoil. Among his spending-reduction proposals were laying off thousands of state employees; reducing health coverage; freezing most state employees’ pay; and cutting funding for nursing homes and programs for the developmentally disabled. In his final budget, Locke suspended two voter-passed, pro-school initiatives while cutting state education funding. That same state budget, though, had record-high allocations for construction projects.
Note that his name looks awfully white to me. Yes, the name Locke does transliterate to a Toisanese name, but it does look white to me. I wonder why his family did it? It is what it is.
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journalism at its finest. EXCLUSIVE PICTURE!
i think that Seattle just had their own standard for transliterating names – not only Locke, but Luke (as in Wing Luke) – that was just their style at the port of entry. That’s what I was told by a ethnic studies professor at the U.