Posted by
Defend America on Sunday, February 28, 2010 6:36:33 PM
The promotion
of Julianna Smoot to White House Social Secretary is good news for
wealthy donors to President Obama's campaign, for whom Smoot -- the
chief campaign fundraiser -- is friend and point of contact.
Smoot, who had been working in the relative obscurity of the U.S.
Trade Representative's office, will now be the key gatekeeper to the
kind of social functions from which donors have complained that this administration, unlike President Clinton's, has barred them.
But the choice to unite money and access in the person of Smoot -- a
career political fundraiser whose efforts were downplayed by a campaign
eager to focus on small donors -- cuts against both President Obama's
broader message of change and against the talking points of her
departing predecessor, Desiree Rogers.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0210/A_fundraiser_as_social_secretary.html?showall