Urban Affairs Czar – Adolfo Carrion Jr.

Urban Affairs Czar – Adolfo Carrion Jr.

Title: White House Director of Urban Affairs

Salary: $158,500

Reports to: President Obama

Appointed: February 2009

Department that might have handled similar issues: Housing and Urban Development

• Job entails coordinating transportation and housing initiatives, as well as serving as a conduit for federal aid to economically hard-hit cities.

• Has undergraduate degree in world religions from Kings College; became an associate pastor at a Bronx church; earned his master’s degree in urban planning from Hunter College

• Was Bronx Borough President (2001-2009); President of the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (since 2007); City Council member (1998 to 2000)

• Many reporters say he has higher ambitions and will probably run for New York City mayor in the next ten years.

• Was an active campaigner for Obama, travelling across the country to speak on his behalf. He focused particularly on states with large Hispanic populations.

• The NY Daily News reported numerous developers made tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations to Carrión around the same time he was considering approving their projects in the Bronx.

(SOURCE: List of Obama Czars by Glenn Beck
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Puerto Rican.

Anti-American activist and leftist group member in Latin America.

Millionaire "slum lord" of the Bronx,NY.

Owns many lavish homes and condos which he got from "sweetheart" deals with labor unions.

Wants higher taxes to pay for minority housing and health care.