Julie Su ‘Embodies the Spirit of California,’ and That’s the Problem

California spreads its bad policies in a variety of ways, sometimes by launching its politicians directly into top federal posts. But for pure incompetence, few of those California politicians match Julie Su, President Biden’s nominee to run the Department of Labor.

While she was Governor Gavin Newsom’s secretary of labor, Su oversaw the implementation of bad policy and the mismanagement of simple procedures. Any one of her major catastrophes would have been career-enders elsewhere; in California, where the failure of progressive policy is invariably a prompt for more progressive policy, she was instead excused — and then promoted into the Biden White House as deputy to now-former labor secretary Marty Walsh.

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Will Swaim

Will Swaim is the CEO of the California Policy Center and, with David L. Bahnsen, a co-host of National Review’s Radio Free California podcast.

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California spreads its bad policies in a variety of ways, sometimes by launching its politicians directly into top federal posts. But for pure incompetence, few of those California politicians match Julie Su, President Biden’s nominee to run the Department of Labor.

While she was Governor Gavin Newsom’s secretary of labor, Su oversaw the implementation of bad policy and the mismanagement of simple procedures. Any one of her major catastrophes would have been career-enders elsewhere; in California, where the failure of progressive policy is invariably a prompt for more progressive policy, she was instead excused — and then promoted into the Biden White House as deputy to now-former labor secretary Marty Walsh.