M&R: Racial politics marked BART board's search for new chief
Printer-friendly version Date of publication: August 26, 2007
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Author: Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross
The selection of longtime BART second-in-command Dorothy Dugger as the transit agency's new general manager was loaded with politics - a lot of it racial.
It started last month when the search firm charged with seeking out a diverse range of candidates came back with a list of 30 possible GMs - of whom 16 were African Americans. Only one was Latino and none was Asian American.
The BART board's three-member search committee whittled the list down to nine earlier this month, five of them African American and the rest white...
