"Donovan, head of New York's Housing Preservation and Development Department, is a former Clinton administration HUD official"
There is your CHANGE, Amurka!
Also see: More Clintonites Fill Obama's Cabinet
"Obama taps NYC housing commissioner as HUD secretary" by Philip Elliott, Associated Press | December 14, 2008
CHICAGO - Promising a prominent role for his housing department, President-elect Barack Obama yesterday named a Harvard-educated architect to lead an agency dealing with the mortgage mess that dragged the country into a recession.
With 1 in 10 US homeowners delinquent on mortgage payments or in foreclosure, Obama said New York City housing commissioner Shaun Donovan will bring "fresh thinking, unencumbered by old ideology and outdated ideas" at the Housing and Urban Development Department to help resolve the housing and economic crisis.
"We can't keep throwing money at the problem, hoping for a different result," Obama said during his weekend radio address. "We need to approach the old challenge of affordable housing with new energy, new ideas, and a new, efficient style of leadership. We need to understand that the old ways of looking at our cities just won't do."
Gee, he sounds JUST LIKE a REPUBLICAN there!!
No, MONEY THROWS are reserved for WARS and BANKS!!!!
Donovan, head of New York's Housing Preservation and Development Department, is a former Clinton administration HUD official with a national reputation for curtailing low-income foreclosures, developing affordable housing, and managing the nation's largest housing plan....
Congressional Democrats, with support from Obama, have sought to use part of the $700 billion banking bailout to help homeowners facing foreclosure. The Bush administration has resisted those efforts....
I thought that is WHY they gave 'em the $$$$?
WTF? They lied about the oversight and the conditions?
The Congress just signed a blank check, huh?
Obama's selection of Donovan marks the 11th post he has filled in his Cabinet, in just over a month since his election as the nation's first African-American president. Still to come are the Central Intelligence Agency, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the departments of energy, education, interior, labor, transportation, and agriculture.
The rollout of the selection - announced at 6 a.m. yesterday via e-mail and later in Obama's Saturday radio address - also was a surprise. Obama had introduced all previous Cabinet appointments at televised news conferences, where he also took questions from reporters....
HUD often has been led by someone who is of a minority; Donovan is white. Latino groups were pushing heavily for Diaz, following in the footsteps of Clinton appointee Henry Cisneros of San Antonio. Bush picked Mel Martinez of Florida, a Latino, and Alphonso Jackson of Texas, an African-American.Well, I guess that is "change," isn't it?
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