Is Mike Espy auditioning for a Joe Biden gig?
Mike Espy, the Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate in Mississippi, has a history of campaigning for his next political gig while appearing passionate about his current one.
In December 1992, soon after Bill Clinton won his first presidential term and Espy won his 4th term in the U.S. House of Representatives, then-Congressman Espy aggressively pushed himself on the President-elect angling for an appointment as Secretary of Agriculture.
The Los Angeles Times chronicled Espy’s pursuit of greener pastures, noting how Espy sat on a wooden milk crate behind Union Station in D.C. and scribbled on an envelope 10 reasons why Clinton should appoint him to the post. Espy gave the list to Clinton’s team at a dinner that evening but he went a step further to mention it to Clinton himself. The LA Times called it a “brash move.”
Espy had been an active supporter of Clinton during the 1992 presidential campaign, going so far as to defend Clinton to Jesse Jackson “as a leader in race relations who could bring people together.”
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