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Press Release: PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA PICKS SENATOR KEN SALAZAR AS SECRETARY OF INTERIOR. LULAC is pleased with the continued roll-out of Latinos for key Cabinet positions . December 17, 2008 For more information contact: Washington, DC – The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) commended the announcement by President-elect Barack Obama of Colorado Senator Ken Salazar for Secretary of Interior today. “Senator Ken Salazar has been a friend to LULAC for a number of years and has been an extremely effective United States Senator for Colorado these past four years, particularly as a leading voice for the Hispanic community,” said LULAC National President Rosa Rosales. “Sen. Salazar will make an outstanding Interior secretary for the country, for the West and for Colorado.” Salazar whose family settled in the West before the United States' founding and has ranched and farmed on the same land in the San Luis Valley for more than a century, has earned a reputation for working across the aisle during his four years in the Senate. The Senator fueled his career in Colorado by attracting bipartisan support and became the first Latino elected statewide when he won election as attorney general there a decade ago, and has worked to balance traditional energy development with a measure of environmental safeguards. President-elect Barack Obama has already named the following Hispanics to the government: · New Mexico Gov. Bill
Richardson to be secretary of Commerce. The League
of United Latin American Citizens advances the economic condition,
educational attainment, political influence, health and civil rights of
Hispanic Americans through community-based programs operating at more than
700 LULAC councils nationwide. # # # |