While some were speculating that Ben Carson, M.D., might be named by the Trump Transition team to return to HUD, President-elect Donald J. Trump (R) has surprised many by nominating Eric Scott Turner, a former Texas lawmaker to be the next Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
1) In an email to MHProNews was the following communique. “Scott Turner was chosen to run HUD:”
I am pleased to nominate Scott Turner, from the Great State of Texas, as the Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Scott is an NFL Veteran, who, during my First Term, served as the First Executive Director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council (WHORC), helping to lead an Unprecedented Effort that Transformed our Country’s most distressed communities. Those efforts, working together with former HUD Secretary, Ben Carson, were maximized by Scott’s guidance in overseeing 16 Federal Agencies which implemented more …