Posted on 12/28/2016 9:03:32 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
President-elect Donald Trump is considering former California Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado to lead the Agriculture department, a move that would bring greater diversity to the Republican’s Cabinet.
Maldonado will meet with Trump on Wednesday at his Palm Beach, Fla., estate. Trump spokesman Sean Spicer noted that Maldonado, owner of Runway Vineyards in the Santa Maria Valley, comes from three generations of farmers and has “strong roots in the agriculture industry of California.”
Trump will also meet with Dr. Elsa Murano, the former president of Texas A&M; University and a former Agriculture undersecretary for food safety, in connection to the post, one of the few Cabinet positions yet unfilled.
Maldonado, 49, was once considered to be the kind of Republican who could break through the party’s struggle to attract widespread Latino support. A Santa Barbara County farmer whose parents were Mexican farmworker immigrants, he served as mayor of Santa Maria before being elected to the state Assembly in 1998. . .
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“Diversity: it’s got more electrolytes!”
Media is trying to make this a ‘diversity hire’- to give legitimacy to ‘diversity hires’.
I think Trump is just having a hard time finding someone he likes for the job.
I, for one am sick to death of racialism and I’m sick of hearing the word ‘diversity’.
We tried diversity with Barack Obama and look what it’s gotten us. We practically have a race war on our hands now.
It is from the LA Times so the story has to be taken with a grain of salt. I would say there are probably a lot of half truths in the article.
maldonado? no thanks. hope this is not true. my recollection is that i could barely distinguish him from the hard leftist gavin newsome. imo, just another ca-gope, romneyite insider.
unsolicited advice for President Trump. if he wants someone from ca, look up Chuck Devore.
It’d be hard to go wrong putting a good ole Iowa farmboy in there.
I know the farmers in California are having to fight tooth and nail with the PC crowd in the cities for basics like water, so maybe this guy understands this Agenda 21 issue from the inside.
Also, subtract L.A. and San Francisco, and California is a red state.
The article says his parents were migrant farmworkers; doesn’t say they were illegals. Used to be the big farms got permission to bring in migrant farmhands legally on some type of work permit; citizens wouldn’t do those jobs.
So if this guy worked his way up from virtual slavery since childhood, he’s got the chops for the job, and my respect, AFAIC.
I’m sure Trump is doing his homework, though. He’s already made clear he’s looking at brains, not skin.
Strong roots? Oh yeah..
Diversity for the sole sake of diversity. A means with no end.
“maldonado? no thanks. hope this is not true. my recollection is that i could barely distinguish him from the hard leftist gavin newsome. imo, just another ca-gope, romneyite insider.”
Agree.
maldonado has all the earmarks (pun intended) of a professional politician. he’s run for office many times.
How about VDH?
Put the department of agriculture in Des Moines.
his last two articles were pro-Trump
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3507549/posts
and
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3506528/posts
In Bushtime, though, Pombo got on a roll. His McCarthyesque hearings on the dangers of “eco-terrorism,” where environmentalists were hauled up before the House Resources Committee and forced to endure harangues from both Democrats and Republicans, culminated in the FBI’s arrest of nearly a dozen environmental activists on charges of sabotage, conspiracy, and arson. Rod Coronado, an editor of the Earth First! Journal and probably the most famous animal rights activist in North America, was also arrested for giving a speech in 2003 at UC San Diego where he demonstrated how to make and use a Molotov cocktail.
Pombo’s scheme to sell off millions of acres of federal forest and range lands, once considered political poison, was adopted by the Bush administration in the fall of 2006, with a proposal to dispose of 200,000 acres of public land to mining and timber companies and real estate speculators, all in the name of funding rural schools.
In 2005, Pombo came close to realizing his wildest dream when the House of Representatives passed his bill to annihilate the Endangered Species Act by a hefty margin of 229 to 193. Soon after this mighty triumph, the Washington Times announced the onset of “Pombomania” among young Republican ultras.
Ironically, Pombomania probably owed more to his enemies than to the shock troops of the property rights movement. Plucking bellicose quotes from his book and his stump speeches, the Sierra Club turned Pombo into the personification of environmental villainy. In dozens of mass fundraising appeals, Pombo was presented as the new James Watt, the dark agent of the looting of the public estate. Pombo glories in his role. “I’m their bogeyman,” Pombo gloats. “They need me to raise money.” The Sierra Club’s threat inflation of Pombo almost certainly factored into Tom DeLay’s decision to catapult the congressman over the heads of more senior members to the chair of the Resources Committee, one of the most prized seats in Congress.
Pombo also got help from the Democrats. His rewrite of the Endangered Species Act, which eliminates the designation of “critical habitat” for listed species, sets in legal stone many of the practices implemented administratively by his former nemesis Bruce Babbitt when he served as Clinton’s Interior Secretary.
Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner! Maldonado is a worthless turd. Typical of the CAGOP, no balls, but big lips!
Maybe because Trump is looking at it that way, if stories be true.
Please no....the man is an idiot and knows nothing about agriculture
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