Fixing White House Corruption

How can we expect to reign in corporate power when so many top officials come from the corporate world--commonly known as the “revolving door” problem. Should there be ethics and/or diversity standards in executive branch appointments? Why not bring community leaders and organizers, who already interface with these agencies on the local level, to Washington to serve inside organizations like HUD or EPA?

White Houses, and their lawyers, are notoriously good at finding loopholes regarding almost any standards, so that might be a tough nut to crack. Maybe a good place to start is with civil service jobs, which are usually unionized, and staffed by individuals that are actually committed to the organizations that they are part of. With a strengthened civil service, the bench of strong applicants will increase, leading to better executive appointments. We should also fight to diversify the backgrounds of these agencies.

Francesca Fiorentini was joined by Max Moran, the Research Director for the Personnel Team at the Revolving Door Project, a project that scrutinizes the executive level appointments of each American President. You can follow him on Twitter here

Francesca was also joined by Anna Hossnieh, an IranianAmerican live comedy, video, and podcast writer/producer who is currently an executive producer and host of the podcast "Ethnically Ambiguous" on the iHeartRadio network. You can follow her on Twitter here

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