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Cabinet Watch: Janet Napolitano

By | 11.14.08 | 1:17 pm

PHOENIX — In late February 2007, when Illinois Sen. Barack Obama asked for a private meeting with Arizona Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano, it was the ambitious, smart and politically savvy Napolitano who was making political history. She was the nation’s first woman chair of the National Governors Assn.

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Napolitano Not Ruling Out AG Appointment

By | 11.13.08 | 1:37 pm

After Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, widely rumored to be the front-runner for the attorney general post in President-elect Barack Obama’s cabinet, spoke at a Subcommittee on Health hearing this morning, I asked her if she was committed to serving out her term as governor, which ends in 2010, or if More…