agriculture secretary

In a 2006 interview with the Minnesota Independent, Mark Ritchie sounded positively Obamian in his intellectual interests, referencing a range of topics from the 1930’s Chemurgy green-fuel movement, artist Francis Lee Jacques and the business filings duties of the Secretary of State’s office. But, despite the similarity with Obama, it sounds like Minnesota’s Secretary of State wouldn’t accept the position of Secretary of Agriculture were the president-elect to offer it to him.