Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Huh?



If only the interviewer had asked her.  That's what I was wondering:  what "science" against it is she refering to?


Good one.


Sending our best and brightest.  (I'd correct that command of "Englsish" if I'm complaining about hers, though.)  And, I doubt a lack of education is the problem.

Here's an interview she did shortly after being appointed. She doesn't sound terribly weird as far as her "Englsish" goes, but she does say she's going to learn about Canada once she gets there. You'd think an ambassador to a country should know about it before he/she goes, but I know that's pie in the sky and not the way ambassadorships are appointed these days. She surely gave a bunch of money to the Trump campaign. (One thing I'll admit was weird: "Obviously, we're very much into human trafficking." I know that's not what she meant to coney, but maybe it's a hint at the speaking problems the tweet refers to.) She talks like a politician, and she talks like a Trump flunky. No surprise.






So who is she?
Kelly Knight Craft isn’t a first-time diplomat, but her experience in international relations has recently been quite equestrian. Horse breeders in Kentucky have sought thoroughbreds from overseas, so she’s travelled as a delegate of her local chamber of commerce, says one of her colleagues there, and been hosted by the princess of Dubai.

“My sister’s always had an international flare,” says her younger sibling Micah Guilfoil.

[...]

She is a talented fundraiser—with her husband, she contributed seven figures [more than $2 million] to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign—and she is a name who helped legitimize Trump for many undecided voters.

[...]

Although the couple initially supported Marco Rubio, they announced their Trump support in June 2016, partly because he agreed in private that he wouldn’t replace House Speaker Paul Ryan or Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, whom they’d also helped elect.

[...]

Knight Craft is also tight with Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin, who congratulated her on the new job by holding a luncheon in the rotunda of the governor’s mansion. She’s close enough to Mike Pence and Ted Cruz to stop them eating during a recent dinner so they could observe the birthday of her younger brother, Mark (president of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission). “Leave it to Kelly to organize not one but two cakes,” says Trout, who was at the meal. “There is nothing she wouldn’t do or give to another human being.”

  Macleans
Oh, wow.
[Restaurant owner Debbie Long] says the couple quietly supports myriad charities including an academy for gifted science and math students.
Does that explain why she believes "in both sides" - she doesn't really?
Knight Craft studied at the University of Kentucky and earned a Bachelor of Arts. She married David Moross, CEO of a private equity firm, and within one year became mother to Mia Moross, who is now a businesswoman who sells antique jewelry. Knight Craft later had another daughter, Jane Brady Knight, with her second husband, Judd Knight, an orthodontist.

Joseph Craft, her current husband, owns a billion-dollar coal company, Alliance Resource Partners.


...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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