Post by pavel on Apr 18, 2016 2:56:01 GMT -6
AUSTIN — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has picked mostly white men and women for hundreds of appointments since taking office last year, keeping with his predecessors who also didn’t name large numbers of minorities to state boards and commissions.
Almost three-quarters of the more than 450 appointments made by Abbott have been white, and more than 60 percent have been men, the San Antonio Express-News reported Sunday. Hispanics, who make up more than one-third of Texas residents and are the state’s fastest-growing population, have accounted for 15 percent of Abbott’s picks.
A former Abbott aide over appointments said the task of getting a larger pool of prospects is challenging. One Democratic state senator said the issue of diversity warrants examination.
The newspaper also found that roughly a quarter of Abbott’s appointees are campaign contributors who have given the Republican more than $8.6 million combined since 2000. That is also in line with former Gov. Rick Perry, the state’s longest-serving governor, whose donors also made up a similar proportion of his appointments over 14 years.
Read more: trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2016/04/gov-greg-abbot-gives-most-of-his-appointments-to-whites.html/
Almost three-quarters of the more than 450 appointments made by Abbott have been white, and more than 60 percent have been men, the San Antonio Express-News reported Sunday. Hispanics, who make up more than one-third of Texas residents and are the state’s fastest-growing population, have accounted for 15 percent of Abbott’s picks.
A former Abbott aide over appointments said the task of getting a larger pool of prospects is challenging. One Democratic state senator said the issue of diversity warrants examination.
The newspaper also found that roughly a quarter of Abbott’s appointees are campaign contributors who have given the Republican more than $8.6 million combined since 2000. That is also in line with former Gov. Rick Perry, the state’s longest-serving governor, whose donors also made up a similar proportion of his appointments over 14 years.
Read more: trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2016/04/gov-greg-abbot-gives-most-of-his-appointments-to-whites.html/