Shirley Sherrod to meet with USDA officials for job offer

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From Marcus Baram, The Huffington Post:

Shirley Sherrod, the ousted USDA official who recently made amends with the NAACP, may be going to Washington next week to meet with Dept. of Agriculture officials to discuss the job they offered her in the wake of the scandal.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made Sherrod an offer to make her the deputy director of the Office of Advocacy and Outreach at the USDA — a definite promotion from her previous job for the department as Georgia State Director of Rural Development.

According to Huffington Post sources, Sherrod has been mulling the offer, and is set to meet with officials at the USDA on August 24.

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