Feb 18, 2009 10:50pm
President Obama Taps Bronx Borough Prez to Direct WH Office of Urban Policy
EmailABC News has learned that President Obama has tapped Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión to serve as director of the White House’s new Office on Urban Policy.
Carrión — borough president since 2002 and president of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials — will coordinate federal programs to help cities. He has served as a city planner, assistant pastor, teacher, and city councilman.
The appointment was first reported definitively in Tuesday’s New York Daily News.
- jpt
UPDATE: Credit where credit is due. The Washington Post’s Al Kamen first reported that Carrión was "on tap" for the position on December 16.
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Random question, but how many appointments does Obama have to make? I don’t remember reporting on hundreds of appointments in previous administrations – is Obama’s org chart much larger on or does the media just think we care more about all the minor posts and third-in-commands now?
Posted by: jhw539 | February 18, 2009, 11:53 pm 11:53 pm
jhw539, in principle all government personnel is appointed or reappointed by the new prez. PBO has zero experience with zero base that he could rely on despite his heavy use of clinton people, which is a smart thing. it left still two secretaries unnamed and all but two under and assistant secretaries unappointed. The government is so far essentially an empty shell without leadership and decision makers at all levels.
Experiene matters. You already seen every time pbo speaks, signs something, SoT speaks, the stock markets tumbles. There is zero confidence in pbo.
Good luck and good night.
Posted by: kat | February 19, 2009, 12:46 am 12:46 am
Sounds like this new person will have
more qualifications than Obama ever
had to be Prez. Might even make a
better Prez, too. Just sayin’……….
Posted by: Trajan | February 19, 2009, 12:55 am 12:55 am
jhw539, more on your random question. do you realize that PB0 just sent 17000 troops into a country, and then phoned and had the first conversation with the President of that country after his order. Can you imagine what the world is going on? Do you really trust such a commander in chief in making a life and death decision without even talking to the President of the country where your sons and daughters will sacrifice their lives.
Posted by: kat | February 19, 2009, 12:58 am 12:58 am
Obama should appoint Oprah for something. People trust Oprah, and many of us voted for Obama, becous Oprah said he is the ONE.
Posted by: Ann | February 19, 2009, 1:08 am 1:08 am
God help us if we find out Adolfo Carrión knows Obama’s best friend Valerie Jarrett, slum lord of Chicago. With this extensive background on foreign state affairs evading building codes in Chicago, Obama sent Ms. Jarrett to a World Economic Summit in Switzerland where she promptly apologized for America. Someone tell me the link between being a slum lord realtor in Chicago to World Economics to apologizing for America’s treatment of terrorists. What in the world do the three have in common at all? Yet there she is. Every time Obama appoints a candidate to a senior cabinet position, I have deja vu on Tim Geithner, Tom Daschle, Bill Richardson and his other appointments. The longer the list of supposed achievements the more it sounds like Obama’s loaded resume. It wouldn’t pass mustard with a company’s HR department.
Posted by: Der Kempt | February 19, 2009, 1:41 am 1:41 am
here we go again, larger government, lost count on how many new arms of the gov he has made so far, higher taxes are coming to pay for all this crap
Posted by: pink stocks are a scam | February 19, 2009, 7:35 am 7:35 am
kat – President Bush never brought together all of his top advisors in making a decision and letting them discuss the pros and cons of whether to go into Iraq before him and make a decision yet I am CERTAIN you trusted him implicitly.
On the other hand, Obama listens to his Commanders in the Field, has Representative Holbrooke in Afghanistan meeting with its leaders (who are requesting additional help) and you want to talk trusting the President?
Now that’s whack!
Posted by: Ranger | February 19, 2009, 10:05 am 10:05 am
Ranger,
A chicken can do better than Bush, who ranks next to the bottom of all presidents.
You are so brilliant in pointing out the Smartest Clueless Leader is an improvement over GWB.
Posted by: Voodoo | February 19, 2009, 1:05 pm 1:05 pm
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