Mineta Resigning from Bush Cabinet

Harry Mok
June 23, 2006

Mineta has headed the Transportation Department since President Bush took office in 2001. Mineta was also a member of former President Clinton's adminstration as commerce secretary and was the first Asian American to hold a cabinet post.

During his time at the Transportation Department, Mineta oversaw the creation of the Transportation Security Adminstration after the Sept. 11 attacks. He is the longest-serving transportation chief since the department was created in 1967.

As a congressman from San Jose, Mineta spearheaded the effort to pass the redress law for 120,000 Japanese Americans who were imprisoned during World War II.

Mineta's had a wonderful career and done some great things for Asian Americans and all Americans.

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Harry Mok

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Editor in Chief Harry Mok wrote about growing up on a Chinese vegetable farm for the second issue of Hyphen and has been a volunteer editor since 2004. As a board member of the San Francisco and New York chapters of the Asian American Journalists Association, Harry has recruited and organized events for student members. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was also a graduate student instructor in the Asian American Studies Department.

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Tom Paine wrote on Sat, 06/24/2006 - 12:51pm
Coincidence?Hmm... less than 24 hours after being quoted live on national TV,Mineta is unemployed:=================================================================Oliver North interviews Professor James Fetzer of http://www.st911.org/on "Hannity and Colmes" of FoxNews*****Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:45pm ET*****http://tinyurl.com/my3k3http://www.911podcasts.com/view.php?cat=0&med=0&ord=Name&strt=0&vid=122&epi=327&typ=0&form=0=================================================================Transportation secretary resigns*****Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:28pm ET*****By John CrawleyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta,who spearheaded an unprecedented overhaul of transportation securityafter the September 11 attacks, announced his resignation onFriday....http://tinyurl.com/hwheyhttp://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2006-06-23T172752Z_01_WAT005901_RTRUKOC_0_US-BUSH-MINETA.xml=================================================================Other related info:http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.htmlhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=964034652002408586
B.Takahashi wrote on Wed, 07/12/2006 - 1:15am
The first post ends with "Mineta's had a wonderful career..." Typical intro to establish the lackluster existence of strong Asian men in America. "Wonderful"? What kind of a WEAK adjective is that? Why not say "Mineta's had a gay career..."? And why is Mineta resigning? Why doesn't he get fired? He should stay and get fired and at least then we'll know that he's got some mettle. Resign? Who resigns? Weak, Weak, WEAK. Will a Strong Asian Man please stand up???