A mystifying story from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. (Hat tip to Think Progress) When a new administration comes in, the old appointees tend to begin gathering up their personal effects and as many office supplies as they can stuff in their bags and head for the parking lot. Not so with Mary Beth Buchanan. Though she was, to put it kindly, a rather avid Bush supporter, she sees no reason to leave the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Despite a new administration coming into power, U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan said she plans to stick around.
“It doesn’t serve justice for all the U.S. attorneys to submit their resignations all at one time,” she said yesterday. […]
More than that, she said she would consider working in the Obama administration. She would not discuss what her future might hold beyond the U.S. attorney’s office.
“I am open to considering further service to the United States,” Ms. Buchanan said.
Despite Ms. Buchanan’s civic minded attitude, it may be worth pointing out that the tradition of turning in your resignation at shift change is to avoid having to be fired. It looks a lot better on the resume. Then again, Obama has promised to have a bipartisan tenure. Could this gambit work?
We’ll keep an eye on this one.