Patrick Gaspard, a longtime labor operative, to be Obama’s political director
By GottaLaff
The last paragraph is the good part:
Patrick Gaspard, a longtime labor operative, will be the White House political director for President-elect Barack Obama, sources with knowledge of the negotiations confirmed to The Fix.
Gaspard served as national political director for much of Obama’s general election campaign and was named deputy director of personnel for the transition effort. Prior to his work with Obama, Gaspard was the lead political operative for the 1199 branch of the Service Employees International Union, a huge and hugely influential union representing health care workers in New York. [...]
Of his job interview with the Illinois senator, Gaspard recalled Obama saying: “I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.” Following the first general election debate between Obama and John McCain, Gaspard emailed his boss to praise him as “more clutch than Michael Jordan.” The Democratic nominee replied: “Just give me the ball.”
Confidence has never been a problem for Obama, and he has every reason to have a ton of it.
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