ABC News reports probable Dem VP, you're not going to like it! [View All]

[ShaneGR]

Sounds a lot like Bush picking Cheney, in a "I need brainpower behind me" sort of way. Not that I think this Johnson character is anything like Cheney, heck, I have no idea who he is.

From ABC's the Note:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html

ABC News has learned that the person considered the leading and most likely candidate to head the Kerry Veep selection process is Democratic wise man Jim Johnson.

Johnson is the vice chairman of Perseus, L.L.C., a merchant banking and private equity firm, and chairman of both Brookings' board of trustees and the John F. Kennedy Center.

He was Vice President Walter Mondale's executive assistant from 1977 until 1981, when he founded Public Strategies, which advised corporations on "strategic issues," to say the least.

He joined Lehman Brothers as a managing director in the mid 1980s and in 1991 became the chairman and CEO (and "$7 million man") of Fannie Mae. He lives with his wife and son in Washington, D.C.