Subject: Press Secretary
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>, "Annie Tomasini" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:24:37 -0500

Categories: White House
The press secretary finals

Thrush:

Those interviewed include deputy press secretaries Bill Burton and Josh Earnest, deputy communications director Jennifer Psaki, Vice President Biden spokesman Jay Carney and Karen Finney, a former Democratic National Committee spokeswoman who is a frequent Democratic surrogate on the cable shows.

Carney, in particular, impressed in closed-door discussions, according to a Democrat who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

...Stephanie Cutter, a special assistant to the president, has consistently told Obama’s aides that she’s not interested in the job, even though many top staffers in the West Wing are still holding out hope that she’ll change her mind.

The casting:

...officials are looking for a third type of press secretary, a fresh-faced newcomer who will focus less on politics — leaving that to the political operatives in Obama’s Chicago campaign headquarters — and more on the mechanics of government, putting a competent professional face on an administration trying to transcend the partisan fray.

Eric D. Schwerin
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