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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumswouldn't Chelsea Clinton be a great house speaker?
because I see political ambitions in her
Ocelot II
(115,874 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,642 posts)Amishman
(5,559 posts)Then this merits discussion.
tritsofme
(17,403 posts)Theres a few folks who are actually members, who might be standing a few places in line closer, lol.
Ocelot II
(115,874 posts)but she's a rich hedge funder who has never held any elected office.
enough
(13,262 posts)Ask again after shes has a couple decades of actual experience.
onenote
(42,776 posts)And if she has political ambitions, fine. She should run for an office.
Aristus
(66,467 posts)Hey! I think that celebrity I like should run for a very high-responsibility public office that they don't know anything about!
No, thanks...
Demsrule86
(68,702 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,874 posts)Actually doesn't even have to be a citizen. Law merely says that the House shall elect a person to be the Speaker every two years when they organize after an election.
MichMan
(11,981 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,874 posts)The only requirement in the Constitution is that the person receive a majority of the vote when the House organizes. It was the Presidential Succession Act in 1947 that put the Speaker as second in line after the VP, so they would need to be a citizen or they couldnt serve as POTUS.
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)Am I reading you right?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)There's no reason to think she has the special combination of talents a good speaker needs -- and to a really exceptional degree!, and we know she'd require years in the house to develop the experience.
Democratic house members elect the best speaker they can because their own political careers and achievement of the dreams they came to fulfill depends in part on how good the speaker is. And of course, how much that leader shares their own ideals and goals.
Future speakers also have to have a LOT of colleagues who like and admire them. Or in the Republlicans' case, fear them.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)This is one of those OP's that gets posted somewhere else to say "Look at what the silly libs are saying" almost as if, hmm...
Gore1FL
(21,152 posts)Celerity
(43,565 posts)Model35mech
(1,553 posts)I don't wish to offend, but, please, please think of capability and experience before naked ambition.
I'd say the same for ANY member of Congress presenting as a candidate for a Leadership role of House Dems.
Boomerproud
(7,968 posts)that politics has become (and probably always has been). She can use her knowledge and talents for real change.
FlyingPiggy
(3,384 posts)i want people like Pelosi who elicited fear from the gop.
niyad
(113,587 posts)we can do it
(12,198 posts)obnoxiousdrunk
(2,910 posts)trick question ?