Tuesday, January 22, 2008
News Shirley Franklin's big gamble
Posted by Scott Freeman on Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 9:32 PM
It's long been speculated that Mayor Shirley Franklin would go to Washington, D.C., if a Democratic president is elected. The rumor is she would be on the Cabinet as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. And, as a post-Atlanta move, it makes perfect sense.
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Franklin waited before she endorsed Sen. Barack Obama over Sen. Hillary Clinton. And at a service yesterday celebrating the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., she added fuel to the fire when she tossed in a well-placed barb at Bill Clinton. Clinton happened to be sitting a few feet away and was not amused.
She's taking a big gamble that Obama will win the Democratic nomination. If he doesn't, Franklin may have just barbed her way out of a Cabinet position. The Clintons are known to have a long memory. But if Obama wins, Franklin would seem to have earned herself an inside track.
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