Any bets?
More scumbags scuttle to become lobbyists.
It was Mastromonaco who orchestrated presidential trips to Iraq and Afghanistan, and who skillfully and secretly set up meetings between Obama and his potential vice presidential picks even as the press watched the campaign’s every move. She’s been with Obama since his days in the Senate.
By all accounts, her White House titles — deputy chief of staff for operations for the past three years, and scheduling director before that — do not fully convey Ms. Mastromonaco’s role in helping decide how Mr. Obama spends his time, whom he sees, where he goes and whom he appoints.
“She has a power that is relatively scary to people,” said one Democratic activist who declined to be identified.
Nor do the titles hint at Ms. Mastromonaco’s close relationships with both the president and Michelle Obama, after coordinating their lives for so long.
“She’s like family to them,” said Pete Rouse, another of the original circle and Ms. Mastromonaco’s mentor, who left in December. In the 2010 magazine interview, she repeatedly referred to the president as “Barack,” a familiarity almost unheard-of among aides to any president. (Colleagues say she calls him “Mr. President.”)
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Ms. Mastromonaco was a bridge to some senators long before she married David Krone, chief of staff to Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader. They took two days off in November to be married by Justice Elena Kagan at the Supreme Court, witnessed only by Ms. Mastromonaco’s aides.
Has the ship of fools run aground? Do these departed servants know something we don’t?
In Chicagoland vernacular "Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations" means "offshore accounts specialist."
“Let’s Move!” is working, I see.
She worked for Bernie Sanders, John Kerry, Harry Reid and obozo....
We all believed that Valerie Jarrett was the most influential person in obozo’s WH and this woman comes out of left field? Doesn’t make sense. She hasn’t been with obozo as long as Jarrett. Does this woman have Secret Service protection? Jarrett does.
Lots of “influential” females driving America straight into a ditch, that is.
In before she will be missed!
MC: What’s been your biggest screwup?
AM: It was 2006, and President Obama, then a senator, was doing about 50 stops to stump for candidates in the midterm elections. He was in Denver, en route to San Francisco, when our finance director called me and said, “The plane’s not here.” I had reserved a $30,000 private plane for the wrong day.
MC: How did you handle that?
AM: I broke into tears. Rouse heard that I was crying and called Obama to tell him that I was having a meltdown. Then my phone rang—back then he had a cell phone number that came up “Barack Obama”—and I was like, Shit! So I picked up the phone, and I’m like [tearfully], “Hello?” And he said, “I hear that there are some tears at the office—I don’t know why because I’m in a first-class seat on a United flight to San Francisco, and we’re going to be there in no time.” But I can tell you, I took it as a onetime reprieve. I try to never fuck up like that again.
She’s going to get a great job paying gzillions for nothinbg more having access to the White Hut, because that’s what it’s all about.