Bettina Inclán Is NASA's New Office of Communications Associate Administrator
Keith’s 14 December note: NASA has a new Associate Administrator for the headquarters Office of Communications: Bettina Inclán. According to her Twitter profile at @BettinaInclan: “Entrepreneur. Storyteller. Political junky. Tired mom of 2 boys. Wife. Wine enthusiast. Proud Latina. Alum of Capitol Hill @GOP @RNCLatinos @NRCC Romney, McCain”.
Here’s her Linked In profile: Bettina Inclán Agen. Bettina Inclán reports for duty at NASA next week. A quick Google search turned up these interesting stories that mention her:
Miami politician says aliens took her on a spaceship. Now she’s running for Congress, Miami Herald (with video)
“A congressional candidate from Miami can go one better: Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera says she’s been aboard a spaceship too. But this one was crewed by aliens. As in extraterrestrials. … Rodriguez Aguilera, 59, a Republican who is running to replace retiring Miami Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, recounted her experience with the ETs during a 2009 television interview.” … Rodriguez Aguilera’s daughter is former Republican National Committee Hispanic outreach director Bettina Inclán Agen. Her son-in-law, Jarrod Agen, is Vice President Mike Pence’s deputy chief of staff.“
RNC ad has own staffer ‘breaking up’ with Obama cardboard cut-out, MSNBC (with video)
“The video portrays a woman sitting across a restaurant table from a cardboard cut-out of Obama. “You think I didn’t see you with Sarah Jessica Parker and George Clooney?” the woman asks. “It’s not me, it’s you.” But perhaps it is the woman. The actor depicting a disillusioned Obama supporter from 2008 is actually the RNC’s Director of Hispanic Outreach Bettina Inclan. “You’re just not the person I thought you were,” Inclan tells cardboard Obama in the ad, while pretending to be someone she is not.”
No. Please… …no.
As they say, you get to pick your friends, but not your family.
I guess this says more about my expectations for an “Associate Administrator for the headquarters Office of Communications” than anything else, but… It seems like she’s got political affiliations and past work in line with the current administration, looks good on camera, lets them check off a couple of boxes for diversity, and has a crazy relative. In a way, I’d like to expect more for any head of an office of communications, but that doesn’t seem to be realistic these days.