Steve Heminger
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Steve Heminger is the executive director of the San Francisco Bay area's Metropolitan Transportation Commission.[1]
[edit] Early life and education
Heminger received his bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and his master's degree from the University of Chicago.[2]
[edit] Career
Heminger was appointed by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of California to serve on the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission.[3]
Heminger, a Democrat, has been active in transportation politics, and he has recommended that the federal gasoline tax be raised by forty cents per gallon. He was also a possible candidate to be President Barack Obama's nominee as Secretary of Transportation.[4] Obama would ultimately choose Ray LaHood and not Heminger to fill the Transportation post.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.transportationfortomorrow.org/about/bio_heminger.aspx
- ^ http://www.mtc.ca.gov/about_mtc/Key_Staff/
- ^ http://www.railstotrails.org/newsandpubs/news/features/2008_05_trailvoices.html
- ^ http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20081005/pl_cq_politics/politics2971165_7
- ^ http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/17/transition.wrap/index.html
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