Obama Announces Urban Affairs Team

(AP Photo/Adam Rountree)

President Barack Obama today announced that Adolfo Carrion will become White House Director of Urban Affairs. The president also announced that Derek Douglas will be special assistant to the president for urban affairs.

In his new post, Carrion will oversee the distribution of federal money to metropolitan areas. The money will be targeted to address issues such as unemployment and affordable housing.

Carrion is a force in New York politics, having served two terms as Bronx Borough President. He is also a prominent Hispanic leader, a key voting bloc that helped elect Mr. Obama last November and one that he has courted assiduously since taking office.

As borough president, Mr. Carrion oversaw the construction of 40,000 new units of housing and 50 new schools. He also managed $7 billion in capital and infrastructure expenditures.

Douglas also served as Washington Counsel to New York Governor David A. Paterson and Director of the governor's Washington, D.C. Office.

The Republican National Committee, citing a Politico report, has been emailing reporters today stressing Douglas' history as a lobbyist. Douglas was registered as a federal lobbyist for the Center for American Progress from 2005-2007. (Ben Smith notes that Douglas was a policy lobbyist, not a private sector lobbyist.)

But CAP says Douglas left the think tank on January 19, 2007, CBSNews.com political reporter Brian Montopoli reports. The ethics rules instituted by Mr. Obama ban lobbyists from working for agencies they have lobbied in the past two years; Douglas' lobbying past falls just outside that two-year window.

[mattcat25]

Just like the anointed messiah of Conthurvatizm Rush Hudson Limbaugh always says:

"blow back will be severe my friendthzzzz"

Conservatives have had their opportunity to wield their agenda on the United States and now we have the results:
over spending with no oversight, tax cuts for the wealthy,
war,
war,
pollution,
corruption,
and an insolvent economic environment due to unregulated free market manipulation.

Great job GOP!

Now, brace for the blow back my friendthzzzzzzzzz.

[kazport]

The obamas and their ilk are bitter angry americans. Give up the woah is me *** and stop whining. Kumbaya ??? We the middle class are tired of this BS. They are stirring the pot with all this racial ***. It is going to backfire.

[kazport]

Michelle Obama and Eric Holder sound like they read from the same speech. We don't take advantage of the diversity blah blah blah

[kazport]

Of course lets get that in place.Low income, race, liberalism. Sounds like the 60's Its all about the same old liberal ***. Holder bringing up race again.
They are the racist, biggots, They are not going to tell me who I should hang out with on the weekends. he is reversing the racism. We have come such along way it would be a shame to have someone like him have us go bakcwards.

[mattcat25]

Obama''s "redistribute the wealth" Socialist policies are punishing smart, prudent taxpayers, and rewarding ignorant, imprudent tax-dodging entitlement abusers - and will destroy America.

The silent majority is madder than hell at Obama and the Democrats, and we''re not going to take it anymore!

DON''T TREAD ON ME, OBAMA!!!
Posted by CBSisPravda1 at 01:58 PM : Feb 19, 2009
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Maybe, just maybe it has been the detrimental Conservative (Fascists) Agenda that the majority working middle class has had to endure over the last 2 Presidential Administrations that has roused the anger.

Maybe?