Here's an update on the speculation around President-Elect Obama's choice to lead Interior from Joan McCarter writing on New West. She believes the president-elect should choose Rep. Raul M. Grijalva, D-Ariz for his progressive credentials and experience.
McCarter points to this article from Juliet Eilperin writing in the Washington Post who writes:
Grijalva's experience and background meshes nicely with some of the Obama team's top requirements. The son of a migrant worker who grew up in Tucson, Grijalva boasts a strong environmental record and chairs the House Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
Choosing the congressman, who was just re-elected to his fifth term, would please both Latino advocates and the environmental community. Grijalva boasts a 95 percent lifetime score with the League of Conservation Voters, and he oversaw a federal study that linked oil and gas development on public lands with the decline in Western hunting habitat. He has also questioned the cheap grazing permits the Interior Department has leased to ranchers in the West.
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