Maryland lt. gov. in running for VA secretary

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Maryland lt. gov. in running for VA secretary
By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Nov 21, 2008 16:24:15 EST

An Army Reserve colonel and Iraq war veteran could become the next secretary of Veterans’ Affairs.

Anthony Brown, Maryland’s lieutenant governor, is getting attention because he is on President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team as co-chair of the group studying priorities for the Veterans Affairs Department — and because, like Obama, he is a Harvard Law School graduate.

Brown, who turned 47 on Friday, had been a member of Veterans for Clinton, a group that supported Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., for the Democratic presidential nomination.

That he was named to the transition team appears to show that early support for an Obama rival has not worked against him.

Brown also helped draft the 2008 Democratic Party national platform last summer.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/11/military_next_vasecretary_112108w/%2



uhc comment: Other names still in the hat include Cleland and Duckworth.