The Hill - Surprise! CBC wants AA as Commerce Secty.

CBC wants African-American as Commerce secretary
By Mike Soraghan
Posted: 01/29/09 06:04 PM [ET]

The Congressional Black Caucus is lobbying President Barack Obama to pick African-American technology executive John Thompson to be his commerce secretary. Thompson is chairman and chief executive officer of Symantec Corp, the software security company best known for its Norton computer protection products. He is expected to step down in early April.
In a letter to Obama, the caucus members stressed that Thompson is the only African-American leading a major technology company...

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