Posted on 04/21/2009 10:38:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Barack Obama is picking a Nike vice president to lead the federal agency that oversees the country's national service programs.
Obama's selection of Maria Eitel comes Tuesday as the president plans to sign a bill to triple the size of AmeriCorps and expand other programs that the corporation administers.
Eitel is nominated to be chief executive officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service, a job that requires Senate confirmation.
Eitel is also the president of Nike Inc.'s charitable arm, the Nike Foundation. She served under President George H.W. Bush as deputy director of media relations and later as special assistant to the president for media affairs.
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Underarmour is better
Just Do It...or else.
Just what I was going to post. Here comes the brown shirt thugs.
NIKE...”NOT MADE IN USA”
Let me guess, the position pays federal minimum wage, right?
(are those crickets I hear?)
Nike, a company that has done so much for the African American community in this country. Nike lead the way for the tennis shoe as status symbol at a truly obscene cost.
Asspress just puts out the government press release as news.
I hate Nike. Their garbage is overpriced. Their golf clubs and balls are shite.
Nike has exploited the black community just like Obama’s slumlord pals in Chicago.
I am sure the Youth Corps will get new Nikes plus an O t-short. Need more symbols like the Third Reich.
Hope and Change aka Arbeit Mach Frei.
Maria Eitel - is nominated to be chief executive officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service, a job that requires Senate confirmation.
Stephen Goldsmith - is the chairman of the board of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that administers AmeriCorps and other national service programs.
“As he builds a $1.75 billion empire, Michael Milken reaches into an old bag of tricks.”
Some geniuses are driven by an inevitable force. Case in point: Michael Milken. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Milken Thus we find the former junk bond king, now 55 and barred for life from securities activities, sitting on the throne of a $1.75 billion private education empire that includes private and publicly traded companies. The old suspicions still dog him. But even those suspicious of him say that, by all appearances, he appears to be doing it right this time. So what’s the catch?
His new sovereignty, Knowledge Universe, oversees nearly 50 companies, many of them interlocking. Some are wholly owned by KU. In others, KU holds anything from a majority to minority portion, (see chart). What they all share is place and purpose within Milken’s latest grand vision, one reminiscent of his junk bond kingdom from which he made as much as $500 million annually. Together, Milken’s new numbers include 14,000 employees worldwide. Though only 5 years old, Knowledge Universe is already on the brink of dominating several sectors of what is being called the Internet’s next killer app: e-learning. A space so vast, with a potential market of more than $10 billion a year, online learning could turn out to be the richest truffle since Milken sniffed out the untapped potential of high-yield debt.
http://www.forbes.com/asap/2001/0910/064.html Corporation for National and Community Service Board Chairman - Urges Service Stimulus
Submitted by NationalService on Wed, 12/10/2008 http://servicewire.org/content/20081210/nsb/Stories-Field/Corporation-National-and-Community-Service-Board-Chairman-and-For **Stephen Goldsmith** is the chairman of the board of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that administers AmeriCorps and other national service programs.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Goldsmith#Chief_domestic_policy_advisor Goldsmith is currently a Partner of Knowledge Universe, which invests in internet-oriented education companies, day care and childhood learning companies... Goldsmith also serves on the boards of several companies including: National and Board Leadership
• Chairman, Corporation for National and Community Service
• Chair, Anacostia Waterfront Corporation
• Board Member, Fannie Mae Foundation
• Board Member, Homes for Working Families
http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/faculty/cv/StephenGoldsmith.pdf
He’d have two pointed right back at him.
She comes from the private sector and worked for George H.W. Bush as Special Assistant for Media Affairs? What’s she doing agreeing to work for Obama?
Nike veep as NSA director? Surely there had to be someone out there with better qualifications....
And why to I get a “green porno” video when I click the link? nm I don’t want to know...
Not National Security Agency (NSA) director, rather National Service (Americorps, VISTA, Peace Corps, etc..) director.
OH my mistake. Read the headline too fast lol
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