Frank (D-Mass.) told author Stuart Weisberg that he would like to be Housing and Urban Development secretary.

Oh joy, the person most visibly responsible for the Community Reinvestment Act wishes to take charge of the agency now harboring Ron Sims, the former Executive of King County, WA. Under Sims, the crooked recount manipulation of ballots by the County succeeded in reversing the results of the 2004 election and emplacing the current Christine Gregoire as Governor. The two ‘liberal’ Seattle papers were remarkably incurious about some of the blatant evidence which turned up, and a legal challenge failed. Birds of a feather…