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Just What JSC PAO Needs – An Overt Bush Politico

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
March 14, 2008

Editor’s note: Ellen Engelman Conners has been selected as the new Director of External Relations at JSC replacing Eileen Hawley (who will be missed). Conners is a consumate Bush loyalist and overt politico – and a Huckabee supporter. Looks like she is burrowing into a career SES position now that the Bush Administration is coming to an end. She is currently the Senior Deputy Bureau Chief at FCC Headquarters in Washington DC. Prior to that she was at the NTSB. As for her previous experience with space exploration: by all accounts it is zero. Oh well – a hearty welcome from NASA Watch, Ellen!

Safety Chief in Holding Pattern – Relations With Colleagues Called Frosty and Petty

“Engleman Conners has not been popular among her peers at the board. Last year, she got into a high-profile spat with three of the four other board members that led to members’ not speaking to one another and Engleman Conners working much of the time from the NTSB Academy in Ashburn, Va., rather than at headquarters in Washington.”

New Strife at the NTSB under Engleman-Connors Leadership

“NTSB members are strongly dissatisfied with the way in which Board chairman Ellen Engleman Conners is attempting to curb their activities. Three Board members-Carol Carmody, Richard Healing and Deborah Hersman-sent a letter to the chairman late this summer expressing their concerns.”

Transportation safety board’s Engleman Conners withdraws nomination for second chairmanship term, Progressive Railroading

“National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) member Ellen Engleman Conners recently sent a letter to President Bush to withdraw her nomination for a second term as board chairman. The president nominated her in April.”

Exiting From the Game Doesn’t Dispel Clouds, WS Journal

“MOVING OVER: National Transportation Safety Board insiders twitter over the FCC’s hiring of former chairwoman Ellen Engleman Conners for the managing director’s office. Internal strife marred Conners’s three-year NTSB term, where complaints, including from fellow Republicans, ranged from how she resolved a backlog of safety issues to how she divvied up office supplies.”

Safety Chief in Holding Pattern – Relations With Colleagues Called Frosty and Petty

“She often joked to colleagues that she was determined to live the life of a spinster aboard her houseboat on the Potomac with her five cats — each of which had its own life preserver.”

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