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will nominate Warrensville Heights Democratic Rep. Marcia Fudge
...Dem Congresswoman for Ohio's 11th congressional district since 2008. She won a special election to succeed Stephanie Tubbs Jones, who gave up her office when carried out feet first. The strangely-shaped, but really not gerrymandered, district includes most of the black-majority areas between Cleveland and Akron. Fudge was Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus in the 113th Congress...
to be the next U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Politico reports, citing "two people with knowledge of the decision."Spokesman for Biden’s transition team did not respond to requests for comment on the report, and a spokeswoman for Fudge said she could not confirm it and was trying to reach Fudge.
"Everybody is calling about it," said Fudge spokeswoman Denise Tolliver.
As news outlets began reporting that Fudge was picked for the job, Fudge told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that it would be "an honor and a privilege" to be asked to join Biden’s Cabinet, though she didn’t confirm she had been picked.
"It is something in probably my wildest dreams I would have never thought about," said Fudge. "So if I can help this president in any way possible, I am more than happy to do it."
Fudge, who is a member of the House Agriculture Committee, originally sought to be Biden’s agriculture secretary, but reports from Politico and other outlets indicate that Biden is leaning toward appointing former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, who served as agriculture secretary when Barack Obama
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was president. If Fudge obtains the HUD job, she’d be the second African American woman to hold it.
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Marcia Fudge: 2019-07-30 Top aides leave Dem campaign arm amid diversity complaints
Marcia Fudge: 2019-07-29 Out of power, out of ideas, and with no goodies to dispense, Democrats turn on each other
Marcia Fudge: 2019-06-13 Dem Marsha Fudge shouts at GOP rep after being scolded for bashing Trump