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Obama Appoints White House Speechwriting and Intergovernmental Affairs Heads
By Michael A. Fletcher President-elect Barack Obama continued rounding out his White House staff today, naming Jonathan Favreau director of speechwriting and Cecilia Munoz director of intergovernmental affairs. Favreau has worked for Obama since 2005, when he joined the president-elect's Senate ...
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The Corner on National Review Online — ... as Obama's "first major Hispanic appointment," Cecilia Munoz , one of the top people at La Raza, has been named director of intergovernmental affairs. Since her job is to oversee relations with state and local governments, there's obviously not going to be much encouragement from the White House for state and local cooperation in immigration enforcement. ...

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Michelle Malkin — [image] Left behind. Barack Obama has appointed senior VP of The National Council of La Raza (The Race) Cecilia Munoz to “oversee the White House office responsible for relations between the administration and state and local governments.” Via WaPo: Munoz, meanwhile, will oversee the White House office responsible for relations between the administration and state and local governments. The 2000 MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” winner is a senior vice president at the National Council of La Raza, a leading Hispanic civil rights group. There, she has spearheaded many of the ...

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President-elect Barack Obama today named two more officials to his incoming White House team, appointing Cecilia Munoz as director of intergovernmental affairs and Jonathan Favreau as director of speechwriting. Munoz will oversee coordination between the White House and state and local ...