Via Washington Examiner:
Harry Johnson, a Los Angeles-based lawyer nominated by President Obama to serve on the National Labor Relations Board, granted a brief phone interview to the Washington Examiner today in which he said he is a free market Republican. He nevertheless promised to take an impartial approach to the NLRB’s work.
“I am extremely honored and thrilled to be nominated for this. I intend to serve the American people, if confirmed, and, at the end of day apply the (National Labor Relations) Act in such a way that we recognize that it is part of a free enterprise system,” Johnson said.
A native of Roanoke, Virginia, the 44 year-old Johnson has represented “exclusively management” in all manner of labor-related disputes in his legal career. He declined to get into details of how he was approached to serve on the NLRB, though he indicated that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was consulted. […]
Asked to define himself ideologically, Johnson said: “That would be a little bit hard to do. I mean, I pretty firmly believe in free enterprise and that we have a free enterprise system and that the National Labor Relations Act is an important part of regulating that system.”