Rumor: Keenum on short list for Trump's Ag Secretary

[615dawg]

Since rumors are encouraged, I've heard this from two different people today.

He was the Chief of Staff for Thad Cochran and the undersecretary of Agriculture under Bush.

 

[GloryDawg]

Why would he leave a great job for a job that will only be for four years?

 

[ZombieKissinger]

Is it too late to change my vote?

 

[travis.sixpack]

Love Dr Keenum, but we need new leadership.

 

[615dawg]

Forget Keifer Sutherland, what would America look like with a Mark Keenum Designated Survivor situation?

 

[Pink Floyd.sixpack]

Why would he leave a great job for a job that will only be for four years?

Ego. And he will run to DC if he gets the appt. CHS name is also being mentioned.

 

[eckie1]

Love Dr Keenum, but we need new leadership.

FIFY.

 

[Dawgg]

Why would he leave a great job for a job that will only be for four years?

Yeah, I could understand if he was approaching 70 and wanted one last gig before he retired, but I mean… he’s only 63.

Plus, the job security for a Trump cabinet member is about like being an SEC coach without a buyout.

 

[John Deaux VII]

They could cut some cost and share make up artist! Small government conservatism is making a come back!

 

[8dog]

Doesn’t he have 4 kids at State that are freshmen and sophomores?- if so, that would be surprising.

 

[FormerBully]

If this is true I am changing my vote from independent to Trump. I’ll even put Trump signs my yard and fly a Trump flag.

 

[Bulldog from Birth]

Why would he leave a great job for a job that will only be for four years?

Because the prestige and influence that comes with being a member of the President’s Cabinet is almost impossible to turn down.

 

[Lawdawg.sixpack]

Ego. And he will run to DC if he gets the appt. CHS name is also being mentioned.

That’s why she’s campaigning all over for him. She’s the leader in the clubhouse.

 

[Fighting Irish.sixpack]

Mike Highfield could be our new president.

 

[bkmaroon]

Since rumors are encouraged, I've heard this from two different people today.

He was the Chief of Staff for Thad Cochran and the undersecretary of Agriculture under Bush.

 

[patdog]

we need new leadership.

FIFY.

Beat me to it.

 

[patdog]

Yeah, I could understand if he was approaching 70 and wanted one last gig before he retired, but I mean… he’s only 63.

Plus, the job security for a Trump cabinet member is about like being an SEC coach without a buyout.

So he’d be 68 when the term ends.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Can confirm.

It’s over a dozen on that list so don’t get excited yet.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

@

 

[JDawg13]

How much is his buyout and can it go to the rainy day fund?

 

[Dawgg]

I hope this thread does not evolve into a ****-slinging match. I do find it humorous that she is campaigning against billionaires in Texas but doesn't say a thing about all her millionaire friends in politics, film, television, and music.

What in the 17 does that have to do Keenum potentially being Ag Secretary?

 

[ronpolk]

Yeah, I could understand if he was approaching 70 and wanted one last gig before he retired, but I mean… he’s only 63.

Plus, the job security for a Trump cabinet member is about like being an SEC coach without a buyout.

I sure as hell hope when I’m 63 I’m starting to shut down the engines into retirement mode.

 

[3000lbchicken]

Me and my hypermasculinity approve this message.

 

[The Peeper]

Because the prestige and influence that comes with being a member of the President’s Cabinet is almost impossible to turn down.

Nobody could name Trump's previous Cabinet or Bidens for that matter

 

[Dawgg]

I sure as hell hope when I’m 63 I’m starting to shut down the engines into retirement mode.

Me too, but I’m not the president of a university. Point taken though.

 

[horshack.sixpack]

Because the prestige and influence that comes with being a member of the President’s Cabinet is almost impossible to turn down.

For a respectable one…

 

[ronpolk]

Ego. And he will run to DC if he gets the appt. CHS name is also being mentioned.

Is CHS Cindy Hyde Smith? I’m assuming that is the case. I’ve met a handful of our representatives (both MS and other states as well) over the years for different business deals I’ve worked on. And CHS is easily the least impressive I’ve ever met. I remember leaving a meeting with her in a little disbelief that she is a senator. I kind of expect there to be a handful of idiots in the house (Bennie Thompson, plenty of others), but I guess I have a little higher expectations of a senator since it’s a statewide election. Maybe I just caught her on a bad day but it would be disappointing to have someone like her in a presidential cabinet.

 

[Bobby Ricigliano]

Ego. And he will run to DC if he gets the appt. CHS name is also being mentioned.

Who’s CHS?

 

[FormerBully]

Is CHS Cindy Hyde Smith? I’m assuming that is the case. I’ve met a handful of our representatives (both MS and other states as well) over the years for different business deals I’ve worked on. And CHS is easily the least impressive I’ve ever met. I remember leaving a meeting with her in a little disbelief that she is a senator. I kind of expect there to be a handful of idiots in the house (Bennie Thompson, plenty of others), but I guess I have a little higher expectations of a senator since it’s a statewide election. Maybe I just caught her on a bad day but it would be disappointing to have someone like her in a presidential cabinet.

I have met serval myself and I honestly I was not impressed with her. I was actually a little ashamed she was our senator. Bennie might have her beat on smarts level.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

I'm already voting Trump. You don't have to keep selling me on it.

 

[patdog]

I have met serval myself and I honestly I was not impressed with her. I was actually a little ashamed she was our senator. Bennie might have her beat on smarts level.

I think Bennie would run circles around her on smarts level.

Another great legacy from Phil Bryant. **

 

[greenbean.sixpack]

Ego. And he will run to DC if he gets the appt. CHS name is also being mentioned.

Don't know much about CHS, she seems like she's not the sharpest knife in the drawer?

 

[DerHntr]

Yeah, I could understand if he was approaching 70 and wanted one last gig before he retired, but I mean… he’s only 63.

Plus, the job security for a Trump cabinet member is about like being an SEC coach without a buyout.

Ending your career at 68 by working in the cabinet for the president of the United States would be incredible. I can’t imagine many successful people looking at that unfavorably.

 

[Dawgg]

Ending your career at 68 by working in the cabinet for the president of the United States would be incredible. I can’t imagine many successful people looking at that unfavorably.

I sure as hell hope when I’m 63 I’m starting to shut down the engines into retirement mode.

So he’d be 68 when the term ends.

Ok, y’all convinced me.

 

[The Cooterpoot]

Mike Highfield could be our new president.

Your mom could be Under Secretary of Ag, she's been plowed so much

 

[Colonel Kang]

Forget Keifer Sutherland, what would America look like with a Mark Keenum Designated Survivor situation?

We darn sure wouldn’t get anything done and definitely fall behind in all areas

 

[olblue]

Nobody could name Trump's previous Cabinet or Bidens for that matter

People in Washington not only can name them, they pay hefty salaries to employ them.

 

[Xenomorph]

Why would he leave a great job for a job that will only be for four years?

You get some of that cabinet post smell on your resume and you gotta be an idiot to 17 it up from there..

 

[Dawgbite]

I sure as hell hope when I’m 63 I’m starting to shut down the engines into retirement mode.

I retired at 55, I highly recommend it!

 

[Bulldog from Birth]

Nobody could name Trump's previous Cabinet or Bidens for that matter

I can absolutely assure you that far more people, especially powerful ones, know who the Secretary of Agriculture is than know who the President of Mississippi State University is. Maybe not Mississippians, but that’s kind of the point.