Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who has been pressing the Obama administration to take more active measures to contain the Ebola crisis, says the president’s appointment of longtime Democratic political operative Ron Klain as the nation’s Ebola czar is “incredibly disappointing.”

“It would disappoint me to think that this administration would appoint someone who is in the communications arena,” Blackburn said shortly after learning the news Friday morning, “and is not someone with experience in emergency response, with experience in public health, that has managed an outbreak or an epidemic or a pandemic or some such situation. That is what is needed right now.”