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- From: pajerek@telstar.kodak.com (Don Pajerek)
- Subject: Re: Affirmative action is dead
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.185153.13698@kadsma.kodak.com>
- Keywords: quotas
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- Reply-To: pajerek@telstar.kodak.com (Don Pajerek)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corp. - Telstar
- References: <BzKC55.6JK@agora.rain.com> <1992Dec21.223347.19989@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:51:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.223347.19989@oakhill.sps.mot.com> pjm@anegada.sps.mot.com (Patrick J. McGuinness) writes:
-
- [stuff deleted]
-
- >Already some women's groups are complaining about Clinton's effort in
- >signing up women. Despite Clinton's well-publicized female appointments, and
- >the almost certain effort the transition team took in *looking* for and
- >finding qualified women, they claim that Clinton may have fewer high-level
- >women appointed than Bush - something they find unacceptable.
- >My only fear is that Clinton takes them too seriously. His EPA appointment
- >was a 34-year-old women whose only significant administrative background
- >was less than a year heading Florida's EPA; I doubt a white male
- >with that thin a resume would have been even considered.
- >
- >I'd like to have Clinton - or someone - stand up to the pressure groups
- >and say " I have one quota - excellence. Every member of my cabinet
- >is the best candidate for the job, bar none." (Well, maybe next time.)
- >
-
- I hope you got to hear some of Clinton's 12/21 press conference, at which
- the nominees for Education and Energy were presented. Clinton got really
- animated at one point about this question, stating that the various womens'
- groups who were complaining 'had better reassess' their ideas, and that
- he felt he was doing a good job of including the various 'sensitive'
- groups in the administration.
-
- >> The Clinton administration should provide a test of this type of policy,
- >>as he seems intent on getting a quota cabinet. He says it should look
- >>like America, but evidently he means this only in a superficial way.
- >
- >>There will apparently be no low-income people or non-college graduates
- >>included, for example.
- >
-
- There is, of course, the small matter of 'qualifications'. And no, I'm
- not arguing that you *must* be a college graduate to be qualified.
- Give me a break.
-
- >
- >Pat
- > Kay Hutchison for U.S. Senate '93
-
- Don Pajerek
-
- Standard disclaimers apply.
-