Obama Taps La Raza Racist for White House job

The Detroit News
11/26/2008
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WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama selected Detroit-native Cecilia Muñoz as the White House director of intergovernmental affairs, the Obama transition office announced Wednesday.

Muñoz, who has a bachelor’s degree in English and Latin American studies from the University of Michigan, is currently a senior vice president at the National Council of La Raza, where she supervises legislative and advocacy work. Meanwhile, Jonathan Favreau, of North Reading, Mass., will be the director of speechwriting, the Obama team also announced. He held that position during the 2008 presidential campaign.

He started off in Obama’s Senate office as a speechwriter beginning in 2005, and he was the deputy director of speechwriting on John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign.

“We’re continuing to build a White House team that can rise to the challenges facing this country — and I couldn’t be more excited to announce Jon and Cecilia,” Obama said in a statement.

“I’m confident that at a critical time in our history, this White House will restore openness and accountability to our Executive Branch and help to put government back in the hands of the people it serves,” Obama continued.

Muñoz joins two other recently named Obama aides with Michigan ties:

• Robert Gibbs, who as communications director helped Michigan Democrat Debbie Stabenow win her first Senate campaign in 2000, will be the White House press secretary.
• University of Michigan Law School graduate Valerie Jarrett will serve as a White House senior adviser.

Jarrett, a co-chairwoman of the Obama-Biden presidential transition team and an Obama family friend, received her law degree from U-M in 1981.

Muñoz was born in Detroit in 1962, according to Gale, a Farmington Hills-based reference center, to immigrant parents from La Paz, Bolivia. The family moved to Michigan so her father, who was an automotive engineer, could attend the University of Michigan, Gale reports.

At age 3, she moved with her family to Livonia. While studying at the University of Michigan, she tutored Hispanic Americans incarcerated at the state prison in Jackson.