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Interesting NYT's five page 2010 article regarding Julian Castro (2012 Democratic keynote speaker)
Last edited Tue Jul 31, 2012, 06:31 PM - Edit history (1)
May 6, 2010
The Post-Hispanic Hispanic Politician
In early December, Julián Castro, the newly elected mayor of San Antonio, visited the White House to attend President Obamas national jobs-and-economic-growth forum. Castro was one of only five mayors in attendance and, at 35, the youngest. When his turn came to speak the subject was the creation of green jobs the president looked at him, midway down the long conference table, and said: I thought he was on our staff. I thought he was an intern. This guys a mayor? The other participants world-famous economists, environmentalists and politicians burst into laughter.
Of San Antonio, Tex., Castro said evenly.
Obama grinned. Im messing with you, he said. I know who you are.
Castro was neither flustered nor flattered by the presidents bantering familiarity. Of course Obama knew who he was gate-crashers might make it into White House social events, but they dont get to the table of high-level West Wing policy meetings led by the president himself. Castro smiled politely at Obamas jest and then proceeded to the business at hand, delivering prepared remarks about employment and the energy market in San Antonio. He is cerebral, serious, self-contained and highly efficient. If he were an energy source, hed be zero-emission. A video of the event shows the president listening intently to Castros presentation and nodding occasionally, Harvard Law 91 silently encouraging Harvard Law 00.
A few days before the meeting, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood visited San Antonio and told the mayor that he was on the radar in Washington. The morning of the meeting, Castro was included in a small working breakfast hosted by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Valerie Jarrett, one of the presidents closest advisers, was there, too. Castro was being noticed and auditioned. It had been about a dozen years since another brilliant young man from San Antonio, Henry Cisneros, regarded by many as the emerging national leader of the Hispanic wing of the Democratic Party, lost his political future in a sex-and-money scandal. Cisneross implosion left an opening. For a while, Bill Richardson, the governor of New Mexico, and Antonio Villaraigosa, the mayor of Los Angeles, were Great Hispanic Hopes, but scandals eventually knocked them out of contention too.
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Full article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/magazine/09Mayor-t.html?_r=1
A VERY Good Read
And here's a link to Castro's bio on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Castro
Julián Castro Announced as Keynote Speaker for 2012 Democratic National Convention
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Interesting NYT's five page 2010 article regarding Julian Castro (2012 Democratic keynote speaker) (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Jul 2012
OP
Article link below: Elizabeth Warren to speak at Democratic Convention just before Bill Clinton
Tx4obama
Jul 2012
#5
Thanks. I hope this will be live streamed on the WH channel/or uploaded to youtube or hulu.
freshwest
Jul 2012
#6
Mayor Castro gave the Keynote Speech at the 2012 TEXAS Democratic Convention - video
Tx4obama
Aug 2012
#7
musiclawyer
(2,335 posts)1. Let's hope this guy has zero scandals
It would be a breath of fresh air
monmouth
(21,078 posts)2. I do like him...n/t
freshwest
(53,661 posts)3. Wow, he's going to be great. Is Elizabeth Warren still going to speak?
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)5. Article link below: Elizabeth Warren to speak at Democratic Convention just before Bill Clinton
Here regarding Elizabeth Warren: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/30/elizabeth-warren-to-speak-at-democratic-convention-just-before-bill-clinton/
So far I think the line up is ...
Tuesday Sept. 4 -- Julian Castro, Michelle Obama
Wednesday, Sept. 5 -- Elizabeth Warren, Bill Clinton
Thursday, Sept. 6 -- President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden
freshwest
(53,661 posts)6. Thanks. I hope this will be live streamed on the WH channel/or uploaded to youtube or hulu.
flamingdem
(39,336 posts)4. Muy bien
Estoy de acuerdo
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)7. Mayor Castro gave the Keynote Speech at the 2012 TEXAS Democratic Convention - video
Mayor Castro gives Keynote Speech at the 2012 Texas Democratic Convention
introduced by his twin brother Joaquin
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)8. Julian, wife Erica, daughter Carina - PHOTO
Mayor Julián Castro his 2-year-old daughter Carina and wife Erica greet supporters at his campaign headquarters - May 2011