What you need to know about Julián Castro, the likely next head of HUD

*It’s interesting to see what non-Latino, mainstream media is saying about Julián Castro. It reads like a dossier for the uninitiated, and across the country there are many. This is all the more reason to see the step-up as a step-to 2016. I know it’s idle speculation at this point, but the  reaction is telling. We’ll have a better idea when the extreme right begins attacking. VL

By Emily Badger, Washington Post

Since Saturday morning, the media in San Antonio have been buzzing about a likely home in President Obama’s Cabinet for the city’s 39-year-old mayor and ascendant Democratic star, Julián Castro. Now it appears that the boyish-looking Harvard Law School grad — the twin brother of U.S. Rep. Joaquín Castro — will become the next head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Ed O’Keefe reports that the mayor has agreed to take the position, replacing current HUD head Shaun Donovan, who will move to helm the Office of Management and Budget. If Castro is confirmed, it would cement the rapid rise of one of the youngest big-city mayors in America, a Mexican-American who’s been positioned since he was first elected mayor in 2009 as a future national Hispanic leader for the Democratic Party. Now, you will likely hear even more about him as a potential running mate to whoever wins the party’s presidential nomination in 2016.

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[Photo by The Texas Tribune/Flickr]

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