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MONTPELIER, Vt. - During more than a decade as Vermont governor, Howard Dean (news - web sites) did not appoint any blacks or Hispanics to his Cabinet, but minority leaders say it was not for lack of trying in the nearly all-white state.
None of Dean's five cabinet secretaries or top commissioners was Hispanic or black during the more than 11 years he served in office, as he was forced to concede during a Democratic presidential debate Sunday.
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Hoyt said one effort to recruit a black man to the Cabinet fell through because he would not be paid as much as he was making in Massachusetts. She could not recall the man's name or the position he was offered.
Campaigning in Iowa, Dean explained that with a handful of Cabinet slots and little turnover, he didn't have many positions to fill, and he had trouble competing with better job recruiters such as IBM and the University of Vermont.
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"The fact that people, white people, have made black appointments is in and of itself no reason to vote for them," said McCrorey, who is black.
"I know Howard Dean and I believe he is on very firm ground in the sense of civil rights," McCrorey said. "He understands justice. He understands civil rights."
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