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2021-05-28 India-Pakistan
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Biden ready to name Eric Garcetti ambassador to India
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Hey, Dron, you're gonna love this one! Los Angelinos know him as Mayor Yoga Pants. He's famous for a $2 billion bond issue that he convinced voters to pass to provide housing for the homeless. The resulting housing units, the few of them that have actually been built, cost $750,000 a pop. And there are those of us who will never forget the road diet in which he appropriated car lanes on which commuters depend to get to and from work for bike lanes. Gotta go green, you know. He's pretty thoroughly discredited so there was no way he was moving on to another elected office after his term as mayor ended. Nice of the Big Guy to find something for him.
[Axios] President Biden is ready to nominate Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti as his ambassador to India, sending a trusted political ally to the world's biggest democracy, people familiar with the matter tell Axios.
Driving the news: Biden is planning to name his first slate of political ambassadors as soon as next week, rewarding political allies like Garcetti, as well as big-dollar donors, many of whom covet postings in elegant European capitals.
The White House is still finishing the vetting process for potential ambassadors, including Garcetti, whose office called an Axios report earlier this month that he was being considered for an ambassadorship "speculative."
When the vetting process is complete, Biden is expected to formally send more than a dozen names to the Senate to begin the confirmation process for his first batch of political ambassadors.
Garcetti, who served as the co-chair of Biden's presidential campaign, was initially considered for the Cabinet. However, his chances diminished after a sexual harassment lawsuit against one of his former aides, Rick Jacobs, received national attention after journalist Yashar Ali reported about his own experience with Jacobs.
A Garcetti spokesperson, as well as the White House, declined to comment. 
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