The Washington Post, New York Times, and Huffington Post are reporting
that Joe Biden has chosen Rep. Deb Haaland Secretary of the Interior.
She’ll be the 1st Native Cabinet Secretary in history..
[ [link removed] ]Sign the congratulations card to our friend, Deb Haaland. (You can add
a personal note if you like.)
[ [link removed] ]Congratulate Congresswoman Deb Haaland - sign the card
The Washington Post, New York Times, and Huffington Post are reporting
that President-elect Joe Biden has chosen Congresswoman Deb Haaland of the
Laguna Pueblo and first district of New Mexico to be the first-ever Native
American Secretary of the Interior -- and the first Native American
Cabinet Secretary.
As an Indigenous person active in progressive politics, I am over the
moon. Biden's decision is a historic win for Indian Country, the
environment, and progressives. The Congresswoman is perfect for the job.
As my friends at the PCCC said, "With the historic appointment of Deb
Haaland as Interior Secretary, Joe Biden chose the most qualified person
and put a true movement progressive in his Cabinet."
[ [link removed] ]Can you join me and the PCCC in congratulating soon-to-be Secretary of
the Interior Deb Haaland? Sign the congratulations card here. You can also
leave the Congresswoman a personal note -- and one for President-elect
Biden.
The PCCC will deliver this card to them.
I've interviewed Congresswoman Haaland and gotten to know her a bit over
her last two years as a member of Congress. What's so exciting to me about
her victory is that her story is so relatable.
Like many of our people, she lived on food stamps. She raised her daughter
as a single mother. She started a salsa business on her reservation and
she cooks for family and friends on traditional pueblo feast days. Like so
many across the country, she's still paying off student loans. Unlike so
many in the halls of power, she's one of us. Sometimes, Native folks
lovingly call her 'Auntie Deb' on social media for exactly this reason.
As Secretary of the Interior, Haaland will bring real change to the agency
charged with managing much of this nation's public lands, natural
resources, and tribal affairs.
In Congress, she chairs the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and
Public Lands, where she has exercised oversight over the agency she will
now lead. She has introduced the most bills with bicameral support of any
member of Congress, and in an era of partisan gridlock, she's seen three
of her acts signed into law.
The Congresswoman is going to do great at the helm of Interior. That’s why
I worked with tribal leaders, progressive activists, environmentalists,
feminists and so many others to urge Biden to do the right thing and make
history. I know we are all so thankful that he did.
[ [link removed] ]Join me in congratulating soon-to-be Secretary of the Interior Deb
Haaland. Sign the PCCC’s congratulations card to Haaland here, and include
a personal note if you want.
Progressives played a leading role in this fight. Data for Progress, the
think tank where I work, published the first list with Haaland for
Secretary of Interior back in July. Senator Elizabeth Warren and the
Progressive Change Institute, who sent a list of 400 recommended
appointments to Biden, played a crucial role too.
As with Data for Progress's list, Haaland’s name was way high up on the
recommendations put forward by the Progressive Change Institute. But many
more slots have yet to be filled. [ [link removed] ]You can make a tax-deductible
donation to Data for Progress and the Progressive Change Institute here.
Thanks for being a bold progressive.
-- Julian Brave NoiseCat ([ [link removed] ]@jnoisecat)
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