Obama Picks Former National Council of La Raza Executive as White House Domestic Policy Adviser

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Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama has named an administration liaison to the nation’s Hispanic community as the director of his Domestic Policy Council, the White House announced.

Cecilia Munoz has been serving as director of intergovernmental affairs for the White House, coordinating with state and local governments. She succeeds Melody Barnes, who stepped down last year. The director of the Domestic Policy Council coordinates policy making and supervises the execution of domestic policy, the White House said in a statement.

Obama said in the statement that Munoz “has done an extraordinary job working on behalf of middle class families.”

Before joining the administration, Munoz was an executive at the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic civil rights advocacy group.


read: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-10/obama-picks-munoz-as-white-house-domestic-policy-adviser.html

[FarLeftFist]

1. RW heads EXPLODING!

[msanthrope]

2. Oh, the freepi will go nutz....good. nt

[BlueCaliDem]

3. Well, this is going to p*ss off the rightwingers

If I've learned anything on HuffPo, it's how much the rightwingers hate anything that has to do with "civil rights". But they really hate civil rights groups by dark-skinned people.

This is a smart move by President Obama. It's no secret that, aside from old school pro-Republican Cubans, the vast majority of Latinos have a great respect for La Raza. That name alone will have rightwingers spin in a tizzy and frothing at their slack-jawed lips.

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5. yep. All the republican candidates skipped the La Raza conference this summer

. . . the president attended.

Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich and Jon Huntsman were invited to the annual conference of National Council of La Raza, the largest Latino organization in the nation. All five chose to skip the affair.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/25/republican-presidential-c_n_909059.html

[BlueCaliDem]

7. The sorry-a$$ clowns want Latino votes and nothing else.

I'm happy the vast majority of Latinos know this and will vote accordingly.

[jenmito]

4. Faux has someone new to attack. Good-I LOVE when Obama does things that he knows

will anger the RWers.

[AtomicKitten]

6. That should set the wingnuts' hair on fire. LOL.

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8. kick

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/10/cecilia-munoz-white-house_n_1197117.html

[ProSense]

9. Excellent. n/t

[one_voice]

10. Just mentiong La Raza makes the...

right start foaming at the mouth and sends them into fits. This will damn near kill 'em (figuratively speaking)...Now if he can find someone from ACORN to tap as an adviser...the right will become catatonic.

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11. not much yet

. . . just one observation (complaint) that she will help shape policy 'outside of the normal legislative process', as the President has done in the wake of the breakdown in cooperation from republicans.

I'd be interested to see the shape of such an attack right now, with all of the heat the republicans are taking from Latino voters.