Jesse Lee has been appointed to a new position (within the communications department) titled Director of Progressive Media & Online Response. What a perfect title for such an ideologically bent administration.
The post is a new one for this White House. Rapid response has usually been outsourced to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), if not done on an ad-hoc basis by administration officials. And it signals that the White House will be adopting a more aggressive defense of the president and his policies as his re-election campaign gears up.
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HATCH ACT Violations here? Probably not, but I'll have to research that one.