1.0 link 151929 <![CDATA[Ray LaHood at Transportation, What is Obama Thinking?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-nelson/ray-lahood-at-transportat_b_151929.html Originally posted at The Seminal.

Ray LaHood (R-IL), who has a lifetime LCV score of 27% (p. 31, pdf), is your new Transportation Secretary. I repeat, a Republican with a consistently bad record on environmental issues has just been nominated to run the Department of Transportation.

Shit.

From his perch atop the Department of Transportation, LaHood will be a key player in the new administration's public works projects designed to stimulate the struggling economy.

Here are some of LaHood's lowlights:

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