If you鈥檇 asked me a year ago what Cabinet post might best suit 优蜜传媒鈥檚 Kevin McCarthy, I'd have been at a loss. There is no Secretary of Mega-Donor Relations. Yet.
During McCarthy鈥檚 17-year tenure in Congress, which he鈥檒l abandon at the end of this month, he didn't exactly establish himself as an expert in any noteworthy aspect of policy or governance 鈥 unless you include fundraising, back-slapping, vote-counting and career advancement (not that those skills are entirely without merit). Even those strengths, however, deserted him in the end.
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