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What must be remembered, however, is that we are seeing a change of administrations within the same party, and not a changing of the guard between incoming and outgoing parties, a far more delicate and bruising process.
Baliles’ first and presumably his most important appointment must be viewed in such a context. That appointment was the tapping of David K. McCloud, Robb’s chief of staff and top cabinet officer, for a senior staff position, as yet unspecified, in the new administration.
The move stunned-reporters and old Capitol hapds last week. McCloud had earlier accepted the position of administrator of the new Center for Innovative Technology, or CIT, which is being built in Northern Virginia.
The appointment of McCloud brought an immediate and predictable outcry from Robb’s critics and from some members of the press. They charged that keeping McCloud on board was a clear signal that the Baliles administration would be a carbon copy of Robb’s and that Robb would still be running the state, in absentia, from his lofty perch in the Hunton and Williams law offices where he will be employed when his term expires.
In point of fact, Baliles did not consult Robb at all about the hiring of McCloud. He took the step on his own and talked McCloud into turning down the $97,000 per year CIT position for one on his staff which will pay some $24,000 less.
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