Nancy Killefer, the latest Barack Obama candidate to be ensnared by tax woes, has withdrawn from the candidacy as Barack Obama's Chief Performance Officer, the White House said Tuesday.
Killefer is the second major Obama administration nominee to withdraw (the first was New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, for the Commerce Secretary Post) and the third to have tax problems complicate their nomination (the others are Tom Daschle, still awaiting confirmation as HHS secretary, and new Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner).
If confirmed, Nancy Killefer would have overseen budget and spending reform.
"Nancy Killefer has decided to withdraw her nomination, and we accepted her withdrawal," Tommy Vietor, a White House spokesman, said on Tuesday.
Killefer's tax troubles were not non-payment of her own taxes, but for others. When her nomination was made on Jan. 7, AP reported that in 2005 the District of Columbia government had filed a $946 tax lien on her home for failure to pay unemployment insurance tax for her household help.
According to the New York Times, Killefer is expected to fully explain her withdrawal later Tuesday.
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