Hawaii AAPI Democrats Back Iolani Graduate For Biden Post
Prominent Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Hawaii are urging President Joe Biden to select Nani Coloretti to be the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Coloretti, a 1987 graduate of Iolani School, would be the first American of Filipino descent to be nominated to a Cabinet-level position, according to a March 15 letter to White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain. She was deputy secretary at the Department of Housing and Urban Development during the Obama administration.
The letter is signed by nearly 100 people — “AAPI community leaders, advocates and allies” — that include Ben Cayetano, the former Hawaii governor. It comes in the wake of the March 2 withdrawal of Neera Tanden, an Indian American, to be budget chief.
“Given the fact that Neera had to withdraw, I thought it was appropriate to have another Asian women nominated,” Cayetano, Hawaii governor from 1994 to 2002, told Civil Beat. “As the first Filipino governor in the country, diversity is important to me and to the country.”
Read more: https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/03/hawaii-aapi-democrats-back-iolani-graduate-for-biden-post/
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