Part of the issue involves what California municipal finance expert Mark Moses noted in his recent book The Municipal Financial Crisis: the permanence of government agencies.
Keep those realities in mind as we contemplate this column's main question: How in the world did Julie Su get nominated to run the federal Department of Labor? Su is a former civil rights attorney, former head of the California Department of Labor under Gov. Gavin Newsom, and head of California's Department of Labor Standards Enforcement under former Gov. Jerry Brown.
The Biden administration knows Su's background in California - and the enormous failures she oversaw at the state labor agencies - but chose to place her in this position anyway.
For a refresher course, Su was California's top labor official and ultimately responsible for the Employment Development Department when a major scandal rocked that unemployment insurance-disbursing bureau.
"Of the $114 billion in unemployment paid by California since March, approximately 10 percent has been confirmed as fraudulent," Su, then head of the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, told reporters in 2021.
In his statement announcing Su as his Labor pick, Biden noted that "She has led the largest state labor department in the nation [and] cracked down on wage theft." She certainly did lead the California labor department.
The Biden administration continues to push similar rules at the federal level through Department of Labor rulemaking, so apparently his principle is that it's OK to "Fail up" as long as it's in service to Big Labor's agenda.
https://spectator.org/julie-su-keeps-failing-up-and-biden-doesnt-care/
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