Former Speaker–and unabashed smoker–John Boehner (R-OH) was elected to the board of directors of tobacco company Reynolds American, Inc., according to a press release from the company on Wednesday.
Boehner will also serve on the board’s corporate governance, nominating and sustainability committee, according to the release.
This is the first corporate position Boehner has accepted since resigning from the speakership and leaving Capitol Hill last October. He has remained mostly out of public view although he spent late July and August traveling cross-country, fundraising for House Republican races on his bus Freedom One.
Boehner is a longtime smoker whose habit sometimes caused ire among his Republican colleagues, as when Paul Ryan said he hated getting Boehner’s cigarette smoke on his clothes.
Reynolds American Inc. also tapped Jean-Marc Levy, executive-in-residence at the IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland, for the board.
Next, he’s shooting for the Board of the Orangeomatic Tanning Bed Company, then Kleenex Tissue.
The headline like many other recently reads like its from the Onion.
Clearly Johnny is trying to make up for all those years in Congress by taking on a new career that allows him to maximize the good he is doing for the world…
And as the spokesman for Orangina’s new wine spritzer offering…
I’ll tell you what though…I bet he is making BANK in this new job.
Smoking causes cancers of the lung, esophagus, larynx, mouth, throat, kidney, bladder, liver, pancreas, stomach, cervix, colon, and rectum, as well as acute leukemia. But surely Big Tobacco and Big Orangeman know that.
@maximus The Kleenex will come in handy when he’s coughing up a lung. Or to wipe his widow’s eyes when he dies.