GW professor appointed to FTC

I just found out that the director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection is J. Howard Beales III, one of my professors at GW. I’m not at all surprised. He taught a course on Business-Government Relations. The material was actually really interesting, and he was quite an expert on the subject. But at the same time, he often inflected his political viewpoint into the lectures. His pro-business/anti-government views sound like they made him an ideal candidate for Bush’s executive branch…