GQ Labels AG Holder ‘Maverick of the Year’
Attorney General Eric Holder didn’t win the Mustached American of the Year contest, but he has succeeded on another front: A men’s magazine has named him maverick of the year.
GQ magazine named Holder one if its men of the year, and gave him a separate designation as maverick of the year, according to The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times.
GQ writes: “Over the past ten months, Holder has learned to leverage his power—both actual and symbolic. He has reinvigorated the DOJ’s commitment to civil rights, launching long overdue investigations of banking discrimination and detainee abuse. But he has also reached beyond the department, attending a rally in Selma to remember Bloody Sunday and speaking in Chicago after a surge in youth violence.”
Holder was a finalist in the Mustached American of the Year contest, but he lost the title to Arizona Diamondbacks relief pitcher Clay Zavada, according a story on the American Mustache Institute website.
