First black governor staffs twenty percent of top posts with non-whites. Despite an almost ninety percent white population (almost 100% outside of
Governor Deval Patrick has hired more than three times as many minorities into managerial positions as his predecessor, Mitt Romney, did by this point in his first year in office. Eighty-three, or about 19 percent, of the managers the Patrick administration hired in the first 10 months of 2007 were racial minorities, compared with 25, or 8 percent, of the managers Romney hired by October 2003, Patrick officials said. Patrick made history a year ago when he was elected the state's first black governor. Many African-Americans and other minority groups hoped the governor would create equal opportunity and address the problems the state's minority communities face. Lily Mendez-Morgan, Patrick's senior director of appointments, said the administration has closely monitored its progress in making state government more diverse.
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