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Quoting “several close aides” to former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, Des Moines CBS affiliate KCCI is reporting that rumors of Vilsack being named U.S. commerce secretary instead of secretary of agriculture are not true.
Wednesday, several close aides to Vilsack told [KCCI] the rumors are not true. One said that Vilsack is in Washington, D.C., interviewing candidates for [...]

An anonymous source tells the New York Daily News that former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack may not be the country’s next Secretary of Agriculture after all. He may move over and take the spot of New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who withdrew his name from contention for Secretary of Commerce earlier this week.
A well-placed source [...]

Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, recently named U.S. Secretary of Agriculture by President-elect Barack Obama, needs to stop aspiring to something more and start taking his current job seriously. That’s the word from long-time Illinois agriculture writer Alan Guebert.

The selection of former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture was more political pay back to the Hawkeye State than smart policy, according to an editorial by the Fort Dodge Messenger.
The Messenger, which endorsed John McCain, calls the move a “thank you” to Iowa for helping get Barack Obama elected president and [...]

The news that former Gov. Tom Vilsack will serve as President-elect Barack Obama’s Secretary of Agriculture has left political insiders with one fewer interesting hypothetical going into the 2010 campaign cycle.  Vilsack was seen as the Democrats’ strongest challenger to Sen. Chuck Grassley, a seemingly unbeatable Republican incumbent.
Though Vilsack’s appointment does not completely preclude a [...]

Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack may be on his way to Washington as President-elect Barack Obama’s secretary of Agriculture, but his wife Christie Vilsack plans to continue as the executive director of The Iowa Initiative, a group she founded a year ago with the mission of reducing unplanned pregnancy.

Although former Gov. Tom Vilsack is likely to be confirmed by the Senate as secretary of agriculture after President-elect Barack Obama takes office, the Organic Consumers Association continues to hold out hope that they can derail the nomination before that happens.
While Vilsack has promoted respectable policies with respect to restraining livestock monopolies, his overall record [...]

During his two terms as Iowa governor, Vilsack endeared himself to both the left and the right. But the Democrat who was both the first to enter and the first to leave the 2008 presidential campaign had his critics.

Former Gov. Tom Vilsack has been tapped to be the nation’s next Secretary of Agriculture, and most observers greeted the selection warmly.

The Associated Press has confirmed that former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack will be appointed Secretary of Agriculture by President-elect Barack Obama.