Obama picks his communications team
November 23rd, 2008 | by shipsintheedge |(CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team announced several key appointments to his communications team Saturday.
Robert Gibbs will have one of the most highly visible roles in the Obama administration.
Robert Gibbs, an Obama campaign spokesman who also has acted as spokesman for the transition, will become Obama’s press secretary, one of the most highly visible roles in the administration.
Gibbs, an Auburn, Alabama, native who has worked for Sen. Fritz Hollings, the Democratic Senatorial Committee and Sen. John Kerry’s presidential campaign, was communications director and then a senior strategist for the Obama campaign.
Ellen Moran, executive director of EMILY’s List, will serve as Obama’s communications director.
Moran worked for the AFL-CIO, coordinating "Wal-Mart corporate accountability activities," before returning to EMILY’s, an organization dedicated to helping Democratic women get elected to office. It had endorsed Sen. Hillary Clinton for president.
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Dan Pfeiffer, current communications director with the transition team, will be Obama’s deputy communications director. He began work with the Obama campaign in January 2007 as traveling press secretary before returning to Chicago, Illinois, to work as communications director.
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Unlike Gibbs and Pfeiffer, Moran is not already on Obama’s communications team.
"These individuals will fill essential roles, and bring a breadth and depth of experience that can help our administration advance prosperity and security for the American people," Obama said in a written statement.
"This dedicated and impressive group of public servants includes longtime advisors and a talented new addition to our team, and together we will work to serve our country and meet the challenges of this defining moment in history."
On Friday, sources indicated that some of Obama’s Cabinet posts were close to being filled.
Two sources close to the transition team said New York Federal Reserve President Timothy Geithner is "on track" to be offered the Treasury secretary post.
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Two sources also said that Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico is a serious contender for commerce secretary but that he could be chosen for anot
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