MI: Stabenow steps up her power
From the Detroit News:
As she assumes a Democratic leadership position on Capitol Hill and gears for re-election battle next year, Sen. Debbie Stabenow has expanded her communications staff, hiring a helpmate of the Clintons and the Edwards-Kerry campaign to head it.
Filling the newly created $107,000 position of Stabenow's deputy chief of staff for communications is Karen Finney, former scheduler for President Bill Clinton; press secretary for the 2000 campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton; and press secretary in 2004 for Elizabeth Edwards, wife of vice presidential nominee John Edwards.
Stabenow also hired Nanette Wilkin, a former Clinton administration speech writer and "rapid response" coordinator for Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois, who now ranks second in Senate Democratic leadership, to fill a vacancy as deputy communications director.
Before bringing in heavy artillery, Stabenow already had an effective one-two punch with Communications Director Dave Lemmon, who previously worked for three other members of Congress, and Press Secretary Bob Meissner, a former Michigan newspaperman who was press secretary to U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Menominee.
That combination of positions has worked well for others...
Let's be sure it works for her.
As she assumes a Democratic leadership position on Capitol Hill and gears for re-election battle next year, Sen. Debbie Stabenow has expanded her communications staff, hiring a helpmate of the Clintons and the Edwards-Kerry campaign to head it.
Filling the newly created $107,000 position of Stabenow's deputy chief of staff for communications is Karen Finney, former scheduler for President Bill Clinton; press secretary for the 2000 campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton; and press secretary in 2004 for Elizabeth Edwards, wife of vice presidential nominee John Edwards.
Stabenow also hired Nanette Wilkin, a former Clinton administration speech writer and "rapid response" coordinator for Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois, who now ranks second in Senate Democratic leadership, to fill a vacancy as deputy communications director.
Before bringing in heavy artillery, Stabenow already had an effective one-two punch with Communications Director Dave Lemmon, who previously worked for three other members of Congress, and Press Secretary Bob Meissner, a former Michigan newspaperman who was press secretary to U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Menominee.
That combination of positions has worked well for others...
Let's be sure it works for her.
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