ryanj
Will any more Obama nominees in 2009 withdraw their nominations?
Sorry for the delay in settlement. After careful consideration, it has been determined that - Annette Nazareth The nominee for deputy in the United States Treasury Department withdrawing herself from consideration is enough to settle this market. The Surgeon General wasn't official nominee so we couldn't use his removal as potential nominee. All predictions made after March 6th at 12 noon are being refunded. A special thank you to "jamalpeter" for helping with the extensive background research for settlement.
Background:
Settlement details:As reported by a major mainstream news source. As long as a nomination placed by Obama is then withdrawn it will count.
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Initial likelihoods: Yes: 35%
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jamalpeter
: Gupta - Nominee for Surgeon General - http://www.muckety.com/saved-map/Sanjay-Gupta-withdraws-as-Surgeon-General-nominee/C477BE90242455FCCDE92F62A4035CD8.map
and Annette Nazareth, slated to be secretary to Treasury Secretary Geithner. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g9fUAlnzqRFsKsENhDXm_oy6yqjgD96OA4SO2
jamalpeter: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, nominated for Surgeon General has withdrawn, as have two Tresury under-secretaries due to the tougher vetting process as described this week in the Washington Post. Gupta's withdrawal is covered in this Chicago Tribune article, or nearly just about everywhere now: http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/health/chi-gupta_for_frimar06,0,3315248.story 
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: Sorry for the delay in settlement. After careful consideration, it has been determined that - Annette Nazareth The nominee for deputy in the United States Treasury Department withdrawing herself from consideration is enough to settle this market. The Surgeon General wasn't official nominee so we couldn't use his removal as potential nominee. All predictions made after March 6th at 12 noon are being refunded. A special thank you to "jamalpeter" for helping with the extensive background research for settlement. 
Suspend date: Thu 31st Dec 11:59pm PST (5 weeks to go)
Settlement date: Sun 8th Mar 9:40am PST
Prediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Fri 6th Mar 9am PST have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled details 
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kind of interesting how little I'm seeing about this in the news though. Every time Bush tried to appoint a judge to the supreme court, including the current chief justice, they were slandered as terrible choices. Meanwhile, Obama selects multiple people that don't pay their taxes to economic positions, including Geithner who is in charge of the IRS now, and there's not really a lot being said about it. Obviously you can pick anyone you want as long as they aren't reps and the newspapers wont care about what they've done, or not done.
Guess that opinion is not shared by all democrats. . .
Main Stream Media is every quiet about these outrageous omissions.
They are too busy touting Hope and Change.
They HOPE nobody will notice and want to CHANGE the subject.
Obama kicks up White House entertaining
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hjPujfKghPXUPK3LKaH2P0gDV3cQD96M06J02
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