Subject: Fwd: New Exec. Dir. of DGA
From: "Valerie" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 15:50:30 -0500

Do we know either of these guys.   Avbo
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> From: Teresa Knag <[email-masked]>
> Date: December 9, 2010 9:23:14 AM EST
> To: Doug Dodson <[email-masked]>, "Jill E. Barcikowski" <[email-masked] 
> >, Valerie Biden Owens <[email-masked]>, Joe Slade White <[email-masked] 
> >, Robbie Dodson <[email-masked]>
> Subject: New Exec. Dir. of DGA
>

> The Baltimore Sun - O'Malley installs longtime aide in key DGA post
>
> 12/8/10
>
> The new top staff job at the Democratic Governors Association goes  
> to Colm O’Comartun, an aide who has been with Gov. Martin O'Malley s 
> ince his days as the mayor of Baltimore.
>
> The move had been rumored for days and was openly discussed by  
> lobbyists hanging around the bar at the Saint Regis Hotel in  
> Washington last last week when O'Malley became the organization's  
> chair. O’Comartun refused to talk about the possibility at the time.
>
> In a statement O'Malley called O'Comartun "one of the most skilled  
> and loyal public servants." That loyalty should come in handy if  
> O'Malley hopes to maintain a national profile beyond the one (or  
> maybe two?) year term of his chairmanship.
>
> The executive director job will put O'Comartun in a good position to  
> build relationships with top Democratic donors outside the Maryland  
> money circuit. And it could let him build a network of the  
> pollsters, consultants and field directors key to any national  
> campaign.
>
> At the very least he'll rack up favors from needy governors who look  
> to him to deploy resources when their campaigns look shaky.  
> O'Comartun's predecessor held the position for four years -- and  
> worked there for six.
>
> In Maryland O'Comartun has been largely out of the public eye (he's  
> only been mentioned in the Sun five times), but he's frequently by  
> O'Malley's side. We've described his role as a "handler" and a  
> "spokesman" and once by his proper title: "director." He's gotten  
> some of the cush assignments, traveling with O'Malley to England and  
> Ireland in 2005.
>
> During the recent campaign O'Comartun popped up with O'Malley at  
> events and toted around the governor's over-sized three-ring binder.  
> The governor clearly favors him, turning to him when even minor  
> questions arose including, at one event, a request for information  
> about the federal unemployment program. His official job with the  
> state: Director of the Governor's Office.
>
> O'Comartun will replace Nathan Daschle, the son of the former Senate  
> Majority Leader. In a statement, O'Malley praised Daschle's work,  
> saying he'd "taken the organization to new heights