LETTER: Senate should advise Trump to choose experts, not clowns

To Ozaukee Press:

One very important step for the U.S. Senate toward establishing a real government is to advise the president-elect on his selections of department secretaries. The Constitution uses the word “advice,” and the president-elect desperately needs real advice. Here’s what I urge the Senate to do:

Draft a resolution that strongly encourages the president-elect to nominate department heads that meet a certain criteria. Any other leadership job in a corporation or agency has a job description that includes a minimum number of years of experience in the field, a relevant degree, accomplishments that prove one’s expertise and leadership skills, and accolades from other respected people in the field. Leaders in a real, functioning government should be required to do the same.

Notice that this list does not include loyalty to the president-elect. The government’s job is to govern, not to make the president look good.

The people the president-elect has put forward to date include people who have no relevant experience and a lot of ridiculous ideas that would cause their resumés to be dismissed with howls of laughter from any corporate HR department.

If the president-elect wants to run the government more efficiently, which is a laudable goal, then step one is to put experts, not clowns, in charge.

Derek Strohl

Port Washington