Submit a Story!

Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion Is Obama's Latest Pick, According to Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion

 

Published 12/9/2008 by Al Kamen at Wash Post Federal Page

Funny thing happened on Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion Jr.'s way to a top Obama administration job. Seems Carrion, at a speech Friday at Yale University, told students he had landed a plum position, indicating it was to head either the Small Business Administration or a Cabinet department... (link)

Tags:

Related Content
The Washington Left Asserts Itself
marcambinder.theatlantic.com 12/9/2008 — The left (apparently) is in a tizzy, if one defines tizzy by a few posts on a few blogs and a few cautious comments from the heads of left-wing interest groups who were shut out of the Obama campaign. Apparently, it has something to do with ...
Cracks appear in Obama foreign policy team
breitbart.com 12/9/2008 — WASHINGTON (AP) - The first sign of cracks in President-elect Barack Obama's foreign policy team of rivals emerged on Monday as his choices for secretary of state and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations visited the State Department. As Secretary of ...
Rod Blagojevich, Illinois governor -
chicagotribune.com 12/9/2008 — UPDATE: Feds take Gov. Blagojevich into custody Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff were arrested today by FBI agents on federal corruption charges. Click here for the latest updates from the Breaking News Center . A three-year federal ...
They Are Family
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 12/9/2008 — Greenwald skewers DC's cozy nepotism: Virtually the entire neoconservative "intelligentsia" (using that term as loosely as it can possibly be used) is one big paean to nepotistic succession -- the Kristols, the Kagans, the Podhoretzes, ...
Attorney Who Aided Terri Schiavo’s Husband Now Advising Barack Obama
lifenews.com 12/9/2008 — Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- An attorney who won an award for representing Terri Schiavo's husband Michael in his efforts to kill his disabled wife is now an advisor to the transition team of incoming president Barack Obama. Thomas Perrelli, who ...
Transition at the State Department: A Tour and Dinner — Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
MOUNTAIN TO MUHAMMED: GORE IN CHICAGO TO MEET OBAMA AND DECIDE HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD FROM MAN-MADE CO2 — THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Slice, Dice, and Rice — Daily Pundit
Big State Coming — Daily Pundit
In Defense of GM's Rick Wagoner — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Rice to Panama for meeting with U.S. trade partners — Reuters: Politics 12/8/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will discuss trade this week with other nations of the Western Hemisphere, U.S. officials said on Monday, and expressed hope that support for free trade would continue under a more skeptical ...
Mayors press for piece of the infrastructure pie — Reuters: Politics 12/8/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. mayors on Monday urged President-elect Barack Obama to channel infrastructure spending directly to cities rather than state governments, saying that would speed assistance to an ailing economy.
Amid Death-Penalty Doubts, 9/11 Suspects Withdraw Offer to Confess — Wash Post Obama Administration 12/9/2008
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba. Dec. 8 -- Five of the men accused of planning the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks said Monday that they wanted to plead guilty to murder and war crimes but withdrew the offer when a military judge raised questions about whether it would ...
Obama seeks peace between new, traditional backers (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 12/9/2008
AP - President-elect Barack Obama is refereeing a struggle between liberal activists, who want to help their candidate score rapid wins in Washington, and party traditionalists who would turn his powerful grass-roots organization over to the ...
Obama plans meeting with Gore to talk energy (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 12/9/2008
AP - Former Vice President Al Gore planned to visit with President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday, but those briefed on the meeting insisted the topic would be the planet rather than Gore's formal return to ...