Gutierrez tapped for Commerce Secty.

Posted November 29, 2004, 12:53 p.m.

Carlos Gutierrez, Chief Executive of the Kellogg Corporation, has been tapped by President Bush to be the next Commerce Secretary. Gutierrez, whose family fled Cuba when he was six, will likely succeed Donald Evans who resigned shortly after Bush’s reelection.

All Presidential nominations for cabinet positions must be confirmed by the Senate.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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