Go, Team!

0 Comments | Insight on the News, Sept 25, 2000 | by Jamie Dettmer

Who will head the Bush transition in the event of a GOP victory at the polls in November? In 1992 it was known fairly widely before Labor Day that Bill Clinton was favoring either Warren Christopher or Mickey Kantor for the job. Clinton went for Christopher, irritating some on the left of his party, who preferred Kantor. But the Bush team is being far more secretive and has not revealed the identities of the front-runners.

Sources in Austin say the Bush team is pulling together a list of possible transition chiefs. Initially Bush had planned on his veep hunter, Dick Cheney, to be his transition chief but that was before Bush decided to choose Cheney as his running mate. Some GOP sources have argued that Cheney still could handle the changeover from Clinton to Bush but there has been no precedent for a veep moonlighting as the transition boss.