10 Things You Didn't Know About Janet Napolitano
Corrected on 11/25/2008: An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified Gov. Janet Napolitano’s college. She attended Santa Clara University.
1. On Nov. 29, 1957, Janet Ann Napolitano was born in New York City. Napolitano grew up in Pittsburgh and Albuquerque, N.M., where she attended high school.
2. Growing up, Napolitano was a Girl Scout and is a lifetime member.
3. Napolitano loves music. She enjoys listening to opera and played the clarinet in the band at Sandia High School. As a senior, she was named the best musician in her class.
4. After high school, Napolitano followed in her father's footsteps and attended Santa Clara University, where she studied political science. In 1979, she was valedictorian of her graduating class, the first female to earn the honor in the school's history.
5. In 1984, a year after receiving her J.D. from University of Virginia, Napolitano worked at the Phoenix law firm Lewis & Roca. Napolitano worked at the firm for 10 years, making partner in 1989.
6. In a close race in 1998, Napolitano was elected Arizona's attorney general. State history was made in that election because women were elected into the top positions of governor, attorney general, state treasurer, secretary of state, and superintendent of public instruction. The women were nicknamed the "Fab Five".
7. During her first term as governor, Napolitano focused on education. She implemented a full-day kindergarten, started a literacy program, and secured funding for an increase in teacher pay. In 2005, Time named her one of the five best governors in the United States.
8. When Napolitano was first elected governor of Arizona in 2002, less than 12,000 votes separated her from her opponent, Republican Matt Salmon. Napolitano's 2006 re-election was a landslide: She received 63 percent of the vote.
9. Napolitano has been active in the National Governors Association, for which she has served on the executive committee since 2007. She has also served as vice chair and became the first woman to serve as chair.
10. Reading, whitewater rafting, and hiking are some of Napolitano's hobbies. She has hiked in Arizona's Superstition mountains and New Mexico's Sandia mountains and has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and the Himalayas.
Sources:
- Arizona Capitol Times
- The American Prospect
- The Arizona Republic (Phoenix)
- The Associated Press State & Local Wire
- Business Journal-Phoenix & the Valley of the Sun
- Campaigns & Elections
- Current Biography Yearbook
- Phoenix New Times (Arizona)
- Time
- US States News
- www.azgovernor.gov/
Reader Comments
Why?
It makes me think that Obama has put her into this position with something else in mind and is not really concerned with Homeland Security
Are you freaking serious about that
Your words: "stopping the guns will help to stop the killing"
We have no power to stop a cartel operating in another country from obtaining firearms. Even if the US stopped sale of and banned all guns in America, there would be no stop in the violence, it may in fact do the opposite; as these people operate with no regard to any law, this may only invite more cross border kidnappings and violence as the cartels would know that their targets were less capable of defending themselves.
This woman is a perfect patsy for Obama's team, if something really bad were to occur, that is.
I really hope that our government doesn't forcefully or even legally try to disarm it's populace. It would be a sad day for liberty if that were to occur. All that it would accomplish is making it a crime to have the means of defending your life, liberty, family and home from a cruel death at the hands of criminals who break laws with impunity.
There was a case in Texas where a farmer, whose land bordered Mexico, caught a bunch of immigrants destroying his fenced and wandering through his land. He had a shotgun, but didn't use it, and detained the illegals until INS came and picked them up. The sad part is that this poor farmer got sued to the tune of millions somehow by these illegals for something like "illegally" detaining them with a weapon. Somehow a person illegally entering this country, or already here illegally, has more rights than a law abiding US citizen; a landowner at that, and this occurred on his own property on which they destroyed a section of his fence.
GM and Chrysler bankruptcies are also paving the way for death of contract law in the US. No such thing as rights or contracts, and soon we are headed the way of Mexico and then Zimbabwe ourselves through hyperinflation and ultimate collapse of the dollar.
The FED IG is all over youtube and the web in a five minute long debacle of doubt into the country’s fiscal oversight of something like $15,000,000,000,000.oo or enough money to have paid off every American’s credit card debt and still have enough to do something more proactive than reward failure, prop up vacuum of corporate greed, and debase the currency by the crime of “quantitative easing,” without ever addressing the real and continually evolving threat of the web of credit default swap and other high risk derivative schemes that have only been mentioned through the obscurity of the terms such as “systemic risk” and “too big to fail.” (That paragraph was a sentence, whew)
This woman is in way over her head and unless our country gets its purse in order SOON, she is headed for a cacophony of migraines and sleepless nights.
bad breath
is she a woman homosexual? if so, she needs to read Romans chapter one.
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