Here's your chance to reveal YOUR candidate's minority appointments.

[stopbush]

Lots of threads tonight on Al Sharpton attacking Howard Dean not appointing any minorities to the 6 cabinet positions he had to fill as Gov of Vermont. And, lots of piling on from the anti-Dean crowd.

So, turnabout being fair play, here's YOUR chance to give the names of the SENIOR-LEVEL minority staffers employed by YOUR candidate. You can post the names from their Congressional staffs or their campaign staffs, but in the spirit of Sharpton's attack, you must limit it to senior level positions, since Sharpton didn't seem to accept Dean's answer that he had minorities working on his non-cabinet-level staff in Vermont.

We can start with the position of campaign manager for the seven white Dem candidates.

Have fun (and maybe I'll learn something I didn't know in the process).

[stopbush]

1. 9 hours later and not a single response to this thread!

C'mon, anti-Dean types. It's your chance to show how your candidate is different than Dean!

BTW - one DUer did respond to a similar question I posed in another thread. He pointed out that John Edwards' staff is extremely well represented by minorities in key positions. I thank him for that response - I learned something.

[Le Taz Hot]

2. *crickets*

;-)

[sandnsea]

3. Picture/female campaign staff

I have no idea who all is on Kerry's Senate staff and would have no idea how to find out. Here's the women in his campaign staff, all shapes and colors.

http://www.johnkerry.com/communities/women/campaign.html

Harold Ford, Jr. is a campaign co-chair, Cisneros is on the National Steering Committee. See who else I guess.
http://www.johnkerry.com/endorsements/pdf/national_steering.pdf

Endorsements:

http://www.johnkerry.com/endorsements/

[helleborient]

7. Al said campaign staff don't count...this is about working staff...

Kerry's senatorial staff, in other words.

[beaconess]

4. Here's Edwards' record

Campaign Senior Staff:
National Campaign Co-Chair, National Treasurer, Deputy Campaign Manager, three regional directors and several state directors are African American. Edwards' Political Director and Deputy Press Secretary are Hispanic.

Senate Staff:
Chief of Staff, Chief Counsel, Scheduler, and two District Directors are African American. In fact, Edwards is the FIRST U.S. Senator in history to appoint an African American female Chief of Staff.

Not bad, eh?

[stopbush]

5. Not bad at all, especially if your support depends on the issue

Sharpton raised with Dean.

[John_H]

12. he he he...you just got got, pardner (nt)

[stopbush]

14. How did I just "got got?"

My initial post that started this thread mentioned Edwards' staff and its inclusion of minorities. Post #4 provided the details.

Now that we've got Edwards' and Kerry covered, let's move on to the others.

[beaconess]

15. It's not bad at all, no matter what

[AP]

6. cool.

[helleborient]

8. Excellent for the Senate staff...campaign staff doesn't count...

According to Al

[diamondsoul]

11. Al didn't start this thread.

StopBush did and he stated in the OP Senior Campaign Staff does count. Dennis' Campaign manager is a woman. Have not looked into the ehtnicity of any of his staff, congressional or campaign.

[helleborient]

13. This thread would not be here without Al, now would it?

Al didn't write this thread...but his comments at the debate started it.

[helleborient]

9. I also wonder, though, what is the minority % of population in NC vs. VT?

[AP]

10. Jesse Helms acted like it was 0%

[beaconess]

17. In a Senate Staff, the senior staff is comparable to a cabinet

and generally consists of the Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, Chief Counsel, Press Secretary, State Director, and District Directors. Interesting that minorities comprise a significant number of Edwards' senior staff, isn't it?

[Ramsey]

16. I'd just like to point out

That in the debate, when Dean mentioned he had minorities on his campaign staff and in his governor's office, Shaprton said that wasn't good enough. He specifically wanted to know how many minorities Dean had appointed to his CABINET. So I think that is the standard we should be holding all the other candidates to, if this is really such an important issue to those who are criticizing Dean.

[AP]

19. Then Edwards is clearly a cut above Dean in this respect.

Or, several cuts above.

[dajabr]

18. OK...

Has Edwards passed Al's test? No one else wants to take a shot at this?

Hmmmmmm....