{"id":19476,"date":"2013-02-07T15:21:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T20:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19476"},"modified":"2013-02-07T15:21:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T20:21:26","slug":"more-diversity-likely-in-next-pres-obama-job-selections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=19476","title":{"rendered":"More Diversity Likely In Next Pres. Obama Job Selections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0 \u2014 As he prepares to announce a new wave of Cabinet and other senior posts, <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> is aiming to put a more diverse face on his administration \u2014 an image that was missing as he filled the first round of vacancies of his second term with a parade of white men.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> is said to be looking at women, Latinos and openly gay candidates for top slots at the departments of Commerce, Labor and Interior, and for his own White House budget office.<\/p>\n<p>The leading candidate for nomination to be secretary of commerce is <strong>Penny Pritzker<\/strong>, a long-time <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> ally and big-money fundraiser from Chicago, according to people familiar with the White House selection process. The top candidate to lead the White House Office of Management and Budget is <strong>Sylvia Mathews<\/strong> <strong>Burwell<\/strong>, who was a former budget, White House and treasury official in the <strong>Clinton<\/strong> administration and is now the president of the Wal-Mart Foundation.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0 \u2014 As he prepares to announce a new wave of Cabinet and other senior posts, President Barack Obama is aiming to put a more diverse face on his administration \u2014 an image that was missing as he filled the first round of vacancies of his second term with a parade of white men. Pres. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}