David CookFifty-one words.
When asked — a dozen times — for U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander’s office to produce any substantial explanation why he refused to renominate Dr. Marilyn Brown — one of the most decorated energy experts in the land — to the TVA board, we, the people, get little more than scraps from the table.
Fifty-one words of nothing.
“I certainly respect Dr. Brown’s academic credentials, but I encouraged the president to send the Senate a different nominee better suited to membership on the board of directors of the nation’s largest public utility,” Alexander’s official statement said.
“The Senate approved four other TVA nominees who in my judgment are well-qualified for board membership.”