President Obama: Three Times a Charm
For Immediate Release
February 12, 2009
Contact: Amy Siskind
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President Obama: Three Times a Charm
The New Agenda, a non-partisan national women’s rights group, is calling on President Obama to fill recently vacated seats with qualified women. Both the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Health and Human Services positions are now open.
The New Agenda co-founder Amy Siskind said: “A fraternity of leadership has led our country into an economic crisis of epic proportions. We call on President Obama to pick from the thousands of qualified women to take these two important cabinet positions and deliver on his promise of change.”
With Senator Judd Gregg withdrawing his name for consideration, President Obama will for a third time be appointing someone to fill the Secretary of Commerce seat.
Co-founder Amy Siskind said: “President Obama, three times is the charm. As the President selects his 23rd and 24th cabinet pick, we encourage him to remember the constituency that overwhelmingly voted him into office – the women of this country. Thus far, President Obama has only selected 5 women for cabinet, while the number of men he’s selected is up to 17. With two cabinet positions now open, he has the opportunity to partially rectify this unfortunate imbalance.”
To reinforce the message that there is a rich pool of qualified women, The New Agenda released the following list of exemplary candidates for Cabinet positions.
• President of the University of Miami and former HHS Secretary Donna Shalala
• U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut
• Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill
• Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar
• Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius
• Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm
• President of the National Business Group on Health Helen Darling
• Former eBay CEO, Meg Whitman
• Former Hewlett- Packard CEO Carly Fiorina
• Former U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Comm. Chair Brooksley E. Born
• Former President, Morgan Stanley, Zoe Cruz
• Princeton University economics professor Cecilia Elena Rouse
• Former Citigroup, Inc. Executive Sallie Krawcheck
• Former Healthcare Finance Director Nancy Ann Min DeParle
