U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has left the Obama administration after several years of encouraging biking and walking while discouraging cell phones. During his departure, Secretary LaHood said, “By 2025, all of us, every family, will have some kind of hybrid or electric vehicle,” a very encouraging (if overly optimistic) prediction from a high level government official, and a Republican at that.
Secretary Ray LaHood’s career in public service goes on for more than 35 years. LaHood began as a teacher and county youth services director in his home state of Illinois. He later served under two Republican U.S. congressmen and won his House seat in 1994. President Obama nominated LaHood to become U.S. Transportation Secretary upon LaHood retiring from Congress in 2008.
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