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Hispanic Caucus wants Latino at Commerce to influence the Census - 01/06/09
Guillermo Garcia of the San Antonio Express News offers "Latinos push Obama on vacant post" (link). The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is going to work with other, unnamed groups to push for a Latino to be named Secretary of the Department of Congress. They settled on one candidate, who a source says was Xavier Becerra; however, he's since indicated he's not interested.
In any case, not only...
"Liberals" support quotas, just not for white men, southerners (Obama cabinet) - 12/22/08
Many "liberals" believe in quotas in everything, whether they admit it or not. However, there are limits to liberalism. Namely, when the quota involves white men, especially white men from the South. Following are four recent examples involving the selections Barack Obama has made for his cabinet and top administration positions. These are reactions to the article "Southerners are the missing...
Hilda Solis named Obama's Labor Secretary - 12/18/08
Sources say that Barack Obama has named U.S. Representative Hilda Solis to be his Secretary of the Department of Labor:
Solis, who is the daughter of Mexican and Nicaraguan immigrants, has been the only member of Congress of Central American descent. She just won a fifth term representing heavily Hispanic portions of eastern Los Angeles County and east LA... Andy Stern, president of the 1.9-...
Ken Salazar as Interior Secretary - 12/15/08
Democratic sources are telling the Denver Post that Barack Obama is going to name Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as his secretary of the Department of the Interior. This makes four Hispanic nominees - two to the cabinet - so far, and as we know there are groups keeping score.
The Salazar confirmation is subject to him passing a background check; one wonders if that's why Raul Grijalva wasn't...
Obama cabinet not diverse enough for some (has two white men, no Asians) - 12/04/08
Nedra Pickler of the Associated Press offers "Obama is delivering diversity, but some seek more" (link). Since she's not liked by the nutroots, figuring out where she's coming from is left as an exercise:
Barack Obama, soon to be the first black U.S. president, is on the road to making good his pledge to have a Cabinet and White House staff that are among most diverse ever, although some...
Xavier Becerra: new U.S. Trade Representative? (meets Obama in Chicago) update: declines the offer - 12/04/08
Andrea Mitchell says that Representative Xavier Becerra - Democrat representing Los Angeles - is in Chicago to meet with Barack Obama over the possibility of become U.S. Trade Representative:
Becerra voted for NAFTA in 1993, a vote he later said he regretted because of the lack of labor protections.
He also supported China's World Trade Organization membership in 2000, and last year he pushed...
"Latinos push for Cabinet posts": NCLR, MALDEF, NALEO trying to embed supporters in Obama administration - 11/07/08
"Latinos" want to be named to positions in the Barack Obama administration. Actually, it appears they want a quota system. And, it's not really "Latinos" as a group, but the familiar far-left pressure groups such as the NCLR, MALDEF, and NALEO. The second has an indirect link to the Mexican government, and the last has a direct link.
The ethnic boosting "reporter" Gebe Martinez of the...
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