Obama Taps Another Union Boss for a Nomination

President Obama is adding to the list of special interest-group appointees going on to the federal payroll:

President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate William J. Boarman as the 26th Public Printer of the United States.

Boarman is currently a vice president of the Communications Workers of America and president of the union’s Printing, Publishing & Media Workers Sector.

Boarman’s career in print started in the apprenticeship program of the International Typographical Union and served as his apprenticeship at McArdle Printing Company in Washington, D.C. He became a Journeyman Printer at the Government Printing Office in 1974.

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