NAVY SECRETARY AGAIN BENDS RULES ABOUT SHIP NAMING TO HONOR DEMOCRATIC POLITICIAN: Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, “who has previously been accused of politicizing the ship-naming process, announced Monday that the destroyer will be named after Carl Levin, a former Democratic U.S. senator from Michigan who is still alive and did not serve in the U.S. military. Mabus disregarded Navy ship-naming rules stipulating that destroyers should be named for deceased members of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, including secretaries of the Navy…Mabus came under fire in 2011 for naming a supply ship in memory of labor leader Cesar Chavez.”