Obama Presidential Campaign Official Kick-off

[Gaspar]

Some real good has come of this.  The Obama campaign is now actively seeking African American applicants to join the cause, and they need them fast!

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75323.html

President Barack Obama's team is looking to hire more African-Americans, a search that has stirred a debate among black Democrats about Obama's record on diversity and its implications for his reelection.

Stefanie Brown, director of the campaign's African American Vote program, wrote in an "urgent" March 21 email to contacts in the black community that "The Obama for America campaign is in the process of really staffing up in states around the country, and I need your help to find qualified, African American candidates for some of these positions." The email, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO, notes that "this is a fast moving process and your (quick) support is greatly appreciated."At Monday's meeting, Angela Rye, executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus, asked two White House personnel officials, Priority Placement Director Ryan Ramsey and Special Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel Teresa Chaurand, for statistics on diversity within the ranks of government officials appointed by the president, according to a source in the room. The White House officials responded by saying they don't keep that data, the source said.
White House spokesman Eric Schultz declined to comment on the exchange or to provide statistics on the racial and ethnic breakdown of the president's appointees.

[Teatownclown]

Some real good has come of this.  The Obama campaign is now actively seeking African American applicants to join the cause, and they need them fast!

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75323.html

President Barack Obama's team is looking to hire more African-Americans, a search that has stirred a debate among black Democrats about Obama's record on diversity and its implications for his reelection.

Stefanie Brown, director of the campaign's African American Vote program, wrote in an "urgent" March 21 email to contacts in the black community that "The Obama for America campaign is in the process of really staffing up in states around the country, and I need your help to find qualified, African American candidates for some of these positions." The email, a copy of which was obtained by POLITICO, notes that "this is a fast moving process and your (quick) support is greatly appreciated."At Monday's meeting, Angela Rye, executive director of the Congressional Black Caucus, asked two White House personnel officials, Priority Placement Director Ryan Ramsey and Special Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel Teresa Chaurand, for statistics on diversity within the ranks of government officials appointed by the president, according to a source in the room. The White House officials responded by saying they don't keep that data, the source said.
White House spokesman Eric Schultz declined to comment on the exchange or to provide statistics on the racial and ethnic breakdown of the president's appointees.

The last thingy I want to know is where you werk. But I would like to know the % of blacks and women who are co employees....

[DolfanBob]

I'm going to take it that these are volunteer positions.

[Gaspar]

The last thingy I want to know is where you werk. But I would like to know the % of blacks and women who are co employees....

60% women (including one of the owners). 6% Korean, 6% black, 6% Pilipino, 13.3% American Indian, and the remainder are pink, light tan, dark tan, and some have varying degrees of facial hair.

In the other business that I am a partner in we are 25% black.

I couldn't care less about the color of a person's skin, and I typically find that same philosophy with most employers.  Of course I've never signed an executive order forcing people to hire other people based on skin color.  I suppose if I had, I would try to exemplify that behavior in the hiring of my own staff.

[Teatownclown]

Ok...I'm impressed. Not by you, but by the company you keep. 

[Gaspar]

Ok...I'm impressed. Not by you, but by the company you keep. 

I'm impressed by you because the company I keep impresses you.  They impress me too. 

The finest folks in the world!