Seems both Dunn and Klain quietly rejoined Obama’s inner circle, er, never left and flew under the radar.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/05/nation/la-na-biden-chief-20110105
As Biden’s top aide, Klain had a tough assignment. Obama and Biden had little in the way of a personal relationship when they took office. And Biden’s penchant for gaffes annoyed a White House staff that prized discretion.
From Biden’s standpoint, two positive developments played out under Klain’s tenure.
After internal meetings that were devoted to Biden, White House aides are less likely to recoil when the vice president wanders off message. And Biden has been allowed into the inner circle, spending hours a day in meetings with Obama.
Klain came to the job after making a mark in popular culture. A chief of staff to former Vice President Al Gore, Klain was portrayed by Kevin Spacey in the HBO movie “Recount,” the story of the disputed 2000 presidential race between Gore and George W. Bush.
“The most important thing a chief of staff can do for a vice president is to be a serious and respected player within the president’s staff,” said Roy Neel, who like Klain was a chief of staff to Gore. “The vice president lives and dies according to the deference that he gets from the president and the president’s staff. And having someone who comes with the stature and experience of Ron is half the game right there.”
Posted this about a year ago.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65018.html#comments
W.H. aides debated politics of Solyndra visit
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That same day, DoE’s stimulus point man, Matt Rogers, defended Solyndra in an email to Klain. “The ‘going concern’ letter is standard for companies pre-IPO,” Rogers wrote, adding, “the company should be strong going into the fall with their new facilities on line.”
Rod O’Connor, who was Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s chief of staff at the time, also chimed in to Klain. “Bottom line is that we believe the company is OK in the medium term but will need some help of one kind or another down the road,” O’Connor wrote.
Klain then sent the two comments from the DoE officials to Jarrett with a recommendation that Obama participate in the event at Solyndra.
“Sounds like there are some risk factors here — but that’s true of any innovative company that POTUS would visit,” Klain wrote. “It looks like it is OK to me, but if you feel otherwise, let me know.”
“I’m comfortable if you’re comfortable,” Jarrett replied.
Klain responded, “The reality is that if POTUS visited 10 such places over the next 10 months, probably a few will be belly-up by Election Day 2012 — but that to me is the reality of saying that we want to help promote cutting-edge, new economy industries.”
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D94EC8D00&show_article=1
Democratic sources: Biden chooses chief of staff
Nov 13 07:15 PM US/Eastern
By LIZ SIDOTI
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Klain is a former partner in the Washington law and lobbying firm O’Melveny & Myers.
Senate lobbying records show that at the firm, Klain’s lobbying clients included Fannie Mae, U.S. Airways, Time Warner and the Coalition for Asbestos Resolution, a business group that sought government help resolving asbestos lawsuits. However, the most recent lobbying Klain appears to have done was in 2004 for Fannie Mae and Time Warner.
He was involved in both of Clinton’s presidential campaigns, and was Gore’s top aide in the vice presidential office for several years. He later had a senior role in Gore’s 2000 campaign, including the Florida recount and Supreme Court standoff that ultimately tipped the election to George W. Bush. Actor Kevin Spacey played Klain in the 2008 HBO film “Recount.”
In 2004, Klain was among several veterans of the Clinton-Gore political campaigns who advised retired Gen. Wesley Clark in the Democratic primaries. He backed Biden, whom he had known from working with Senate committees, four years later.
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THE PURSUIT OF A DAUNTING ENERGY JOB
Washington Post - Wednesday, January 6, 1993
Author: Al Kamen ; Thomas W. Lippman ; Steven Mufson ; David S. Broder
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Washington lawyer Jamie S. Gorelick, a longtime FOZ (Friend of Zoe’s), has put together a legal brain trust to assist Attorney General-designate Zoe E. Baird at her confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.).
The group includes two former Biden chief counsels, Mark Gitenstein and Ron Klain , former staff director Jeff Peck, and Duke Law School Prof. Walter Dellinger, veterans of bitter fights over judicial nominations in the late 1980s who now find themselves working for, not against, committee confirmation.
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Jan 5, 2011
Ron Klain, chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, is leaving the White House to become the new president of Case Holdings, the investment company of AOL co-founder Steve Case. Klain is leaving his current position later this month and will oversee Case’s various holdings including investment firm Revolution LLC, investments in Hawaii including Grove Farm and Maui Land & Pineapple, and Steve and Jean Case’s Case Foundation.
We spoke with Case to talk about Klain and the direction of Revolution LLC, which has invested in hot start-up companies such as LivingSocial Inc., which recently raised $175 million from Amazon.com, Zipcar Inc., which is in IPO registration, Everyday Health Inc., and Revolution Money Inc., which was acquired by American Express Co. in 2009 for $300 million.
http://www.revolution.com/our-team/ronald-a-klain
http://www.revolution.com/our-investments
wiki:
Steve Case
In early 2011, he was selected by President Barack Obama to serve as Chairman of the Startup America Partnership and named to the President’s Council on Jobs & Competitiveness.
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http://gigaom.com/cleantech/obama-to-streamline-the-loan-guarantee-program/
Nov. 8, 2010
The Obama administration is working on streamlining the Department of Energy’s loan guarantee program, a spokesperson for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) tells me this morning. The move follows a leaked memo (online here) dated October 25, reported by the Wall Street Journal (and picked up by others), from White House officials to the President that lays out several recommendations for ways to revamp the DOE loan guarantee program. One of the recommendations from that memo was moving the remaining loan guarantee program funds to another renewable energy grant program, basically killing the loan guarantee program.
But instead of “reprogramming” the loan guarantee program, the Obama administration and the DOE have decided to remain committed to the program and try to make it better and take less time, the OMB spokesperson tells me.
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October 25, 2010. MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT. F ROM: CAROL BROWNER. RON KLAIN. LARRY SUMMERS. SUBJECT: Renewable Energy Loan ...
Peas in a pod??
Birds of a feather?
Rabbit pellets? AKA
Rodent turds
Peas in a pod??
Birds of a feather?
Rabbit pellets? AKA
Rodent turds