Contact Jordan LaPier Director (202) 495-3320 jlapier@ourpublicservice.org Hey, let’s find out if they can actually do the job July 23, 2019 To the exclusion of any executive competence or managerial skills, voters have come to choose presidents as if they were ideological leader in chief or vision bearer in chief. That’s a mistake, because the job of president is actually executing the laws and running the executive branch. It’s about hiring good people, setting priorities and modeling behavior.