Ready for Julián?
Politico gets their digs in throughout the article. But I am ready for Julian!
POLITICO @politico 2m2 minutes ago
.@SecretaryCastro builds his case to be @HillaryClinton's running mate http://politi.co/1KuZbV5 | AP Photo
Ready for Julián?
Practicing Spanish, taking advice from Bill Clinton, Castro builds his case to be Hillary's running mate.
By Edward-Isaac Dovere
01/22/16 01:39 PM EST
.....................Starting Saturday, he’ll be out on the trail for Hillary Clinton in in Nevada, Iowa and Maine.
He’s plotted his rise carefully, studying and strategizing with a clear goal in sight. But if Clinton picks him to be her running mate, it’ll be more about perfectly fitting his party’s moment and the nearly non-existent Democratic bench than about his 18 months as a HUD secretary who hasn’t left a deep mark at his agency, the White House or the housing world.
Castro’s got a made-for-campaign commercials biography, and an undeniable savvy that’s helped him spin a job as a part-time mayor of San Antonio into an unusually successful 2012 Democratic convention keynote and then the answer to the second term Obama White House’s own search for more diversity in the Cabinet, without having to wait until he could win statewide in Texas.
Since he got to Washington in 2...........................
Castro declined comment on any of the gaming out. But ask the Castro circle if there’s any other Latino they can imagine Clinton picking and they stammer. Xavier Becerra, they say skeptically, their voices trailing off as they stretch a question mark out the last vowel in the California congressman’s name. And at 57, they figure, he’s also too old.
Castro’s a young-looking 41, a lower-level Cabinet secretary with a record that’s most distinguished for not having anything go wrong. He’s the former mayor of the seventh-largest city with a record that includes a big win in implementing universal pre-K, but the job is technically part-time and pays only $3,000 per year. (Most of the municipal government is run by an unelected city manager, though people around Castro say he was expected to be on around the clock.)
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/julian-castro-possible-vice-president-218119#ixzz3y0pqPqos
= new reply since forum marked as read
Response to riversedge (Original post)
I'm ready!
I know President Obama wouldn't have appointed him if he didn't think he would be great for the job.
I'm sure he's had invaluable experience working in the Obama Admin.. and "low level" or not.. It's an important part of our Country.. to help those who need assistance with being able to afford a place to actually have a home.
