Will Obama Yield to Right-Wing Pressure to Fire Green Jobs Advisor Van Jones?
Will Obama Yield to Right-Wing Pressure to Fire Green Jobs Advisor Van Jones? Friday September 4, 2009 Last March, when President Obama selected Van Jonescivil rights attorney, environmental activist and social entrepreneurto join the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) as special advisor on green jobs, enterprise and innovation, many considered Jones an inspired choice. Now, six months later, Obama may be preparing to show him the door. When reporters asked White House press secretary Robert Gibbs on Friday morning whether Jones still has President Obama’s confidence, Gibbs would only say that “he continues to work in this administration.” Not exactly the full-throated support Jones was likely hoping to hear from the Obama White House. This controversy has nothing