Patti Solis Doyle, Former Clinton Campaign Manager, Hired By Obama Camp

***UPDATE*** The Obama campaign has sent out a press release highlighting a swath of new hires as they gear up for the general election campaign. One name on the list which sticks out is Patti Solis Doyle, the former campaign manager for Hillary Clinton. Doyle will fill the role of chief of staff to the vice presidential nominee.

From the Obama campaign:

New roles announced today:

Constituency Director: Brian Bond - formerly LGBT Outreach Director at the DNC

National Field Director: Jon Carson - formerly Obama for America Voter Contact Director

Senior Advisor to the Campaign and Chief of Staff to Michelle Obama: Stephanie Cutter

Industrial States Regional Director: Paul Diogardi - formerly Political Director for the Democratic Governor's Association.

Battleground States Director: Jen O'Malley Dillon - formerly Iowa State Director for John Edwards for President

Chief of Staff to the Vice Presidential Nominee: Patti Solis Doyle

Latino Vote Director: Temo Figueroa - formerly Obama for America National Field Director

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First Americans Vote Director: Wizipan Garriott

Northeast Regtional Director: Eureka Gilkey - formerly Obama for America Deputy Political Director

50-State Voter Registration Director: Jason Green - formerly Obama for America political and field staff

Campaign Chief of Staff: Jim Messina - formerly Chief of Staff to Senator Max Baucus

LGBT Vote Director: Dave Noble - formerly of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

West Regional Director: Matt Rodriguez -.formerly Obama for America New Hampshire State Director

Senior Advisor: Michael Strautmanis

African American Vote Director: Rick Wade

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Politico reports that Obama is expanding his campaign staff in Florida and Chicago:

Jim Messina, Max Baucus's chief of staff, is coming on board in Chicago with the title chief of staff, to help administer the growing operation with David Plouffe.

And Steve Schale, whom Adam Smith describes as a "hot shot," will run Obama's Florida operation

Obama has also hired a major Minnesota player to be his state director: Jeff Blodgett, the former campaign manager of Senator Paul Wellstone.

Comments

[Felicty]

ANYONE from the HRC campaign end is damaged goods.

[paul195]

Hard to be the "Canidate of change" when you keep recycling the old trash of the Marlows

[TocinoHumano]

Hard to be a career politician without keeping company with the same people as other career politicians.

[Sparklez]

She speaks for him now?

Thats like saying he shouldnt take new voters from the other side or Hillary's side

Dumb logic if u ask me

[Mayoyo]

As long as they stay away from McCauliffe and that other fool...i forgot his name already..... that's how past Clinton I am.

[Glowcy]

trying to be a unity party after a hard fought primary season is difficult - how can there be trust?

[JDJase]

you must REALLY not want any of H R C's supporters to support B O, eh?

[CAPTAINSKIPPY]

Guess it's not that bad to have a few DC types handy to run things and flex the old revolving doors.

[benne]

Men, men, men. Same old, same old. Obama campaign shows its sexism in so many ways. A group that a girl can get behind, if she wants to be their sweetie.

[lynnn]

You are an idiot. Why don't you read up on Obama's mother.

[Sparklez]

Dont even havr to go thast far. Look at his wife and children and how much he loves and respects her. Look at how he didnt throw the whole kitchen sink at Hillary because in the event that she actually won, she wouldnt be damaged. However, i wish she would have treated him the same way. But thats what happens when greed gets in the way. Always will be a loser.

[WLA]

I'm sure the Mc-Cain campaign is way more to your liking.

[08timefortruth]

Shut up you whiner.......OMG do you ever stop the sexism crap, you must have had some really bad relationships with men to hate them so much and that's fine -for you- but women like you give the rest of us a bad name so stop already........

[piquet]

"Talent" has no gender...get over it.
Unless of course you're down with putting bench players on the field in the biggest game of his life. This isn't 8 year old t-ball. They actually take score on this one.

[jukesgrrl]

Umm, I counted four women on that list. I agree it's not even 50%, but the pool of qualified candidates is, unfortunately, not 50% women.

[astro370]

She is cute.

[starkweather444]

Agreed she is hot

[TocinoHumano]

And she'll probably bake lots of pies and cookies for the boys on the campaign staff. I hope she knows how to make coffee!

[kay]

Yeah, that's it.

Clinton supporters are like 9/11 conspiracy theorists now, you know that, right?

Did that Michelle Obama tape ever turn up? Any action on the blockbuster Rezko trial?

You're starting to sound like fringe lunatics.

[WLA]

Starting?

[JDJase]

Jee, last i heard it was conservative groups making up stories about the 'whitey' tape, not Hillary supporters. You're not very smart, are you?

I support Barack Obama. Unfortunately, all the ridiculous comments that his supporters (that don't know what not to say) leave on websites like this are what is going to lose the election for him.

Notice this story has nothing to do with the ugliness that came out of the Primary. And yet you continue to bring up the divisions. You're pathetic.

[robertlockwoodmills]

This is a serious question, not intended as sacrcasm. "Why is this the lead story on Huffington Post?"

Does anyone believe our country will be better or worse off, depending upon which political hack gets involved with which candidate? Haven't we seen and heard enough about Karl Rove, Dick Morris, Lee Atwater, Roget Ailes, James Carville, Mary Matalin, Marlin Fitzwater, Lanny Davis, Harold Ickes, et al?

[Quotidien]

Good point. It's not even covered on CNN or MSNBC as yet.

Election coverage is like crabcake. Sometimes there's meat, and sometimes there's filler.

[benne]

Men, men, men. . . . Same old, same old.

[WLA]

Grow up.

[partyofone]

This is scary. I cannot see any good coming from Obama takinig on a leader of the It
dishonest, mean-spirited, divisive, poorly managaged, failed Clinton campain. She is a long-time Hillary insider, who by all evidence was incompetent. What is the point of this? Can he really trust her? Is Obama caving in to Clintons, the political establishment? I can't think of one thing she brings to the Obama campaign that is worth the cost of compromising the high road.

[IkeChicago]

US & Iran two of a kind
We are a nation stuck in ideological positions and seldom change our habits. Here we are mired in an economic downturn, gas $5 a gallon, a foreign policy that lacks any direction and yet we are thinking about electing a senile old man who is our only war hero alive today, John McCain.

We express puzzlement of nations that elect leaders who have ravished their economies and who titter on War criminal status. President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, a man who brought a productive nation to its knees, a nation in hunger and violence, a nation that prints money that is actively used as toilet paper. Iran, a nation that elects leaders like Ahmadinejad who openly denies the Holocaust, chooses to scare other nations with the building of a bomb and bring unwanted scrutiny upon the nation of Iran.

How could nations elect leader like those two men, can’t they see that it is counterproductive for them, their children and their country. Why must they keep voting for their tribe, and their religion, it simply make no sense, we in America argue. Yet we are considering election a man like John McCain, a leader who possess all the skills of leaders we ourselves reject.

The very next time we choose to question the nations of Iran and Zimbabwe, let us first look inward, therein lies the answers to our questions.

[OverCoffee]

^ Off topic.

[Nancyann]

If she did such a lousy job for Clinton I don't know why he would want her. Maybe she'll be a spy !!!!!!

[jcwtts1]

she didn't do such a lousy job. She ran the campaign she was given with the candidate she was given. Hillary blew this not her staff.

[Nancyann]

I agree with you. Clinton was a fraudulent candidate and we are soooooo better off without her. Now we have to get her out of representing NYS in the senate. CAROLINE KENNEDY FOR JUNIOR SENATOR FROM NEW YORK!!!!!!!

[Dane1911]

At admire and respect this man so much. He is taking his time to build a general election team. He has done so much for this party in two weeks than McCain have done for his party since February. That is really sad. I am glad we have a leader that is excerising his leadership! When we are in full gear of this election, Obama will be on stoppable. He will McCain spend money he doesnt have because of his 50 states plan.

[adzeman]

I wonder if there is a clue on the VEEP here. Or if that was even a consideration.

[Janel]

Let's pray that it isn't a clue. For me, not a good idea!

[jukesgrrl]

Doubt it. Patti was gone from HRC's campaign before it was over. She's probably on Bill's "list."

[gulopartisan]

It took me a minute to decide which of his lists you meant. Do you think he cuts notches?

[jcwtts1]

I had heart failure for a moment thinking this meant Hillary, but then I realized Obama is trying to build a team that works in an integrated fashion, i.e. people work for both the pres and the veep, open sharing of info, connected offices that kind of thing. He's picking the VP chief because the VP is going to be part of the machine not outside of it.

J

[magnitude]

Welcome Patti, All aboard to the white house in January 2009!

[vinimor]

not sure i understand what the fuss is about - HRC has been out of the VP running for a while, the 'dealbreaker' was bubba's refusal to disclose donor lists to his presidential library

[benne]

Well, if she's out of the VP running, as you say, a lot of women are going to leave with her. Obama's terrific numbers among women all came out after her speech. He's going to have some that will just stay home rather than come out to vote.

[mairs]

You honestly believe that O's great female numbers over Mc's are predicated on HRC being his veep? Don't think so!

[bygollymissmolly]

I don't believe that any woman who cares about this country will be childish enough to stay home or vote for Mc'Cain just because H'illary lost. If they do, they should be ashamed of themselves.

But, I believe the recent poll numbers are proof that a majority of the women who supported H'illary love their country and want what's best for it. The few who are still screaming and yelling are more likely right wing plants.

[Sparklez]

Glad im not that childish. I love my country more than to let McSane get his seat in the oval office.

[WLA]

Perhaps these immature people you speak of should looks at Mc-Cain's record on women's issues.

[Knowbetter]

I smell a Ratpublican!

[joeinvt]

Where did you hear that?

[nomobull]

everywhere including articles on this site.

[TiffanyHusseinBanned]

WSJ The O campaign leaked it at the time of the Democratic primaries finale AND at the time of the famous Vanity Fair article.

Not a chance she is going to be asked

[vinimor]

http://www.examiner.com/x-243-Progressive-Politics-Examiner~y2008m6d4-The-Deal-Breaker

if you put 'dealbreaker' and 'presidential library' into google you get a load of sources - it was pretty widely reported

[jcwtts1]

hadn't heard it was offically over yet but I head the donor lists and some personal behavior questions basically ended it. If O was going to pick her he would have already.

J

[Moka11]

Some people's heart and soul is captured in a moment and come through in a photogragh. Hers is very apparently warm and peaceful. She was one of the better people in the Hillary campaign from everything I read and heard. She battled with Mark Penn which tells me she was right. She also had said she would work for Obama long before the last primary.