Dodd for President campaign names co-chairs
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Posted: Thursday, March 08, 2007
WASHINGTON -- Today, the Chris Dodd for President campaign announced a diverse group of backers to serve as national co-chairs of his campaign.
U.S. Reps Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., and Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn.; Sanford Cloud Jr., former National Conference for Community and Justice president and CEO, and James Sasser, former U.S. senator from Tennessee and ambassador to China, will lead Dodd's campaign.
"The people who lead my campaign are, in a way, a cross-section of America, representing backgrounds diverse in geography, race and biography," said Dodd. "But they share one very important thing: a commitment to changing this country."
Becerra, who serves as assistant to the Speaker of the House, has represented the Los Angeles area since 1992. He serves on the Ways and Means Committee, where he is both the first Latino in the post, as well as the only current member from Southern California represented on the committee.
DeLauro, who represents the New Haven area of Connecticut, is the former chief of staff to Dodd. She has served alongside Dodd as part of the Connecticut delegation since 1990 when she first was elected. She sits on the House Appropriations Committee where she is chair of the Agriculture-FDA Appropriations Subcommittee and as a member of the Labor-Health and Human Services-Education and Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittees.
Sasser represented the state of Tennessee from 1976 until 1995.
He was appointed ambassador to the People's Republic of China by President William Jefferson Clinton in 1995 and served until 2001.
Cloud was president and CEO of National Conference for Community and Justice from 1994 until 2004. A lawyer, he has been active in encouraging private and public sector investments and philanthropic initiatives that aid people of color and the economically disadvantaged. He also is a former Connecticut state senator.
U.S. Reps Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., and Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn.; Sanford Cloud Jr., former National Conference for Community and Justice president and CEO, and James Sasser, former U.S. senator from Tennessee and ambassador to China, will lead Dodd's campaign.
"The people who lead my campaign are, in a way, a cross-section of America, representing backgrounds diverse in geography, race and biography," said Dodd. "But they share one very important thing: a commitment to changing this country."
Becerra, who serves as assistant to the Speaker of the House, has represented the Los Angeles area since 1992. He serves on the Ways and Means Committee, where he is both the first Latino in the post, as well as the only current member from Southern California represented on the committee.
DeLauro, who represents the New Haven area of Connecticut, is the former chief of staff to Dodd. She has served alongside Dodd as part of the Connecticut delegation since 1990 when she first was elected. She sits on the House Appropriations Committee where she is chair of the Agriculture-FDA Appropriations Subcommittee and as a member of the Labor-Health and Human Services-Education and Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittees.
Sasser represented the state of Tennessee from 1976 until 1995.
He was appointed ambassador to the People's Republic of China by President William Jefferson Clinton in 1995 and served until 2001.
Cloud was president and CEO of National Conference for Community and Justice from 1994 until 2004. A lawyer, he has been active in encouraging private and public sector investments and philanthropic initiatives that aid people of color and the economically disadvantaged. He also is a former Connecticut state senator.
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