well, i knew it couldn't be good news for long...

damnit.

Bush Picks Kellogg CEO for Commerce Post

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush nominated Kellogg CEO Carlos Gutiérrez on Monday as his next commerce secretary.

If confirmed by the Senate, the Cuban-born Gutiérrez, 51, will replace Don Evans, one of several Bush cabinet members to leave the administration after the president's re-election earlier this month.

In a White House ceremony, Bush hailed Gutiérrez as a "great American success story" who learned English as a bellhop in a Miami hotel and rose through the ranks of Kellogg, starting as a truck driver delivering Frosted Flakes.

At every stage of his career, said Bush, "Carlos motivated others with his energy and his optimism and impressed others with his decency."

Gutierrez was 6 years old when Fidel Castro's guerrillas triumphantly rode into Havana, trapping Gutierrez's family in Miami where they were on vacation.

Gutiérrez has been chairman of the board of Kellogg Company since April 2000 and chief executive officer since April 1999. He had joined the company in Mexico in 1975.

He and his wife, Edilia, live in Battle Creek, Michigan. They have three children.

gutiérrez has been a donor to bush's campaign since the 2000 election and was one of the "36 key business leaders" (who all were big campaign donors to the republicans) Bush met in january 2001 as noted by various organisations, including the nonpartisan center for responsive politics.

gutiérrez is a hyperwealthy immigrant who is also the child of cuba's pre-castro hyperwealthy rightist élite. latino leaders has an article about him.

i wonder if he will have any real power.