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Ken Blackwell: Trump admin will "make the trains run on time"
Not the Onion.
With Bannon Pick, Trump Invites Alt-Right Into White House
So far, the Trump camp has not responded to the criticism of Bannon, and what has come out of the campaign has not been encouraging. “Bannon is going to be keeper of the image of Trump as a fighter against the status quo, and Reince is going to utilize his personal connections with the speaker and others, to make the trains run on time,” Ken Blackwell, a former Ohio state official and a member of the Trump transition team, told The Wall Street Journal. When you are trying to convince America that its new leader is not a fascist, it’s best not to make any Mussolini references.
So far, the Trump camp has not responded to the criticism of Bannon, and what has come out of the campaign has not been encouraging. “Bannon is going to be keeper of the image of Trump as a fighter against the status quo, and Reince is going to utilize his personal connections with the speaker and others, to make the trains run on time,” Ken Blackwell, a former Ohio state official and a member of the Trump transition team, told The Wall Street Journal. When you are trying to convince America that its new leader is not a fascist, it’s best not to make any Mussolini references.
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This is something Mussolini bragged about.
Great.
You will know them by the company they keep.
Il Donald will be just as efficient! 
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/family-research-council-s-starkly-anti-gay-ken-blackwell-leading-trump-s-domestic-transition-team
Hillary Clinton may have made a huge rhetorical gaffe when during the campaign she labeled more than half of Donald Trump's supporters as occupying a "basket of deplorables." That term, however, may be much more applicable to some of the people heading up Trump's transition team. As proof that Trump intends to consummate his affair with conservative Christian evangelicals, he has named Kenneth Blackwell, the senior fellow for Human Rights and Constitutional Governance at the Family Research Council -- an organization named as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center – to head his domestic transition team.
Blackwell, the former mayor of Cincinnati, UN Ambassador, and Secretary of State of Ohio, is a controversial figure, in part stemming from being accused of voter suppression while Secretary of State of Ohio and honorary chair of George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign.
"He continued: 'The reality is, again…that I think we make choices all the time. And I think you make good choices and bad choices in terms of lifestyle. Our expectation is that one's genetic makeup might make one more inclined to be an arsonist or might make one more inclined to be a kleptomaniac. Do I think that they can be changed? Yes.'"
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Hillary Clinton may have made a huge rhetorical gaffe when during the campaign she labeled more than half of Donald Trump's supporters as occupying a "basket of deplorables." That term, however, may be much more applicable to some of the people heading up Trump's transition team. As proof that Trump intends to consummate his affair with conservative Christian evangelicals, he has named Kenneth Blackwell, the senior fellow for Human Rights and Constitutional Governance at the Family Research Council -- an organization named as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center – to head his domestic transition team.
Blackwell, the former mayor of Cincinnati, UN Ambassador, and Secretary of State of Ohio, is a controversial figure, in part stemming from being accused of voter suppression while Secretary of State of Ohio and honorary chair of George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign.
While not quite channeling the late Rev. Fred Phelps – he of "God Hates Fags" infamy -- Blackwell is as anti-gay as it gets. According to People for the American Way's Right Wing Watch, "In a 2006 newspaper interview, when he was running for governor of Ohio, Blackwell called homosexuality a sinful 'lifestyle' that 'can be changed,' like that of kleptomaniacs or arsonists:
'I think homosexuality is a lifestyle, it's a choice, and that lifestyle can be changed,' Blackwell said in response to the question 'Is homosexuality a sin, and can gays be cured?' according to published transcripts. 'I think it is a transgression against God's law, God's will.'
'I think homosexuality is a lifestyle, it's a choice, and that lifestyle can be changed,' Blackwell said in response to the question 'Is homosexuality a sin, and can gays be cured?' according to published transcripts. 'I think it is a transgression against God's law, God's will.'
"He continued: 'The reality is, again…that I think we make choices all the time. And I think you make good choices and bad choices in terms of lifestyle. Our expectation is that one's genetic makeup might make one more inclined to be an arsonist or might make one more inclined to be a kleptomaniac. Do I think that they can be changed? Yes.'"
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