Opinion: Online petition of Obama grows for new Cabinet post

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Looks like President Barack Obama will pretty much have the top people in place for the new administration that starts with his inauguration at the Capitol next Tuesday, late morning Eastern time.

There’s a last-minute problem with his proposed secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner, who employed an illegal alien and forgot to pay some taxes for several years. And Bill Richardson has gone back to govern New Mexico after descriptions of an ongoing federal grand jury ‘pay-to-play’ investigation of his office forced him to withdraw as secretary of Commerce.

But now comes word from our colleague Lisa Fung over on the Culture Monster blog that there’s a growing online effort afoot to petition Obama for a new Cabinet spot. Lisa’s got the whole story and the link over here.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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