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Salon.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
President Obama's about to lose his second White House communications director since taking office. Anita Dunn, who took the job on an interim basis after Ellen Moran left to become chief of staff at the Commerce Department in April, will be resigning at the end of this month, the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza reports. According to Cillizza, Dunn's deputy, Dan Pfeiffer, will be the next person...
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Sister Toldjah (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Via The Fix: White House communications director Anita Dunn will step down from her post at the end of the month and Dan Pfeiffer, her deputy, will take over, according to sources familiar with the move. Dunn, a longtime Democratic media consultant, took over the job on an interim basis earlier this year when Ellen Moran abruptly [...]
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Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
(CNN) - White House Communications Director Anita Dunn will step down from her post early next month, two White House officials confirm to CNN. Dan Pfeiffer, the current deputy communications director, will takeover the top job, the officials also said. Dunn, a seasoned political operative, assumed the role earlier this year when then-Communications Director Ellen Moran left [...]
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YID With LID (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
In a surprising move Anita Dunn, White House communications director is leaving her post at the end of the month. Dunn who set back the image of the presidency at least fifty years is most famous for taking on the Drudge Report and losing and then taking on Fox News and Losing: Dunn leaving White House, Pfeiffer takes over White House communications director Anita Dunn will step down from her post...
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Red State (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
From the diaries by Erick Union bosses have the federal government all sewn up. They’ve got a lock on the White House, they’ve got a lock on the Senate, as well as the House of Representatives. So, what’s the problem? Immediately following the election, the President-Elect appointed the AFL-CIO’s Ellen Moran to be White House Communications Director (she has since moved on...
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Vital Signs Blog (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
John Malek alerted his Facebook friends to this important American Thinker article by Mac Fuller. In it Fuller gives thumbnail sketches (well, a little bit more than a thumbnail, actually) about 16 of Barack Obama's most outrageous buddies, advisors and appointments. And yet the list doesn't cover 'em all! Harry Knox , for instance, isn't there nor is Tom Daschle nor is Shauna Daly nor is Ellen Moran,...
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Organizing Grievances (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Happy Labor day! (could not let it pass without a post) I watched with glee the Obama speech to the AFL/CIO today, and well it got me fired up! (it is on c-span, and on huffpo ) I hope he continues the rhetoric on Wednesday's big Hcare speech. Wobs--> What do you know about the charge from Jane Hamsher that liberal groups are being corralled in a "veal pen"? How many of these calls have...
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nourishing obscurity (Free subscription) | 08/05/2009
Head honcho UK - "leading" without our authority Here we go again [Hat Tip Cassandra ]: While we were having a good laugh over the Lefty bloggers whining for their share of interest group boodle, another tasty tidbit from Ben Smith was getting largely overlooked: The latest in a series of new, low-profile efforts to coordinate the unusually focused progressive coalition backing the White...
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Political Punch (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
Former Obama for America campaign adviser Anita Dunn will on Monday become the new White House director of communications, replacing Ellen Moran. Dunn was originally President Obama's first pick to be communications director. She turned down the job to spend...
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Political Punch (Free subscription) | 04/23/2009
From Sunlen Miller White House press secretary Robert Gibbs today beat back questions over the abrupt departure of White House communications director Ellen Moran, framing her move as a decision made more for her family and less due to troubles...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 04/22/2009
PRNewser : Ellen Moran is leaving her post as White House Communications Director to become the Chief of Staff at the Department of Commerce. As Politico's Ben Smith says, it's not a common trajectory . The AP reminds us that Moran was the only member of President Obama's inner circle that did not have a long term relationship with him, and did not play a role in the epic two-year campaign to win....
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The Real Barack Obama (Free subscription) | 04/22/2009
Ellen Moran (right), White House Communications Director, is leaving the West Wing to be chief of staff to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Liz Sidoti wrote yesterday for the Associated Press. Moran made her decision on Monday, April 20 and had “informed Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel of her intentions but [had] not yet submitted a [...]
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 04/22/2009
White House communications director Ellen Moran is stepping down to be chief of staff to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, becoming the first senior adviser to President Barack Obama to leave the West Wing.
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Politico (Free subscription) | 04/22/2009
White House Communications Director Ellen Moran is leaving the job to become Gary Locke's chief of staff.
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Horserace (Free subscription) | 04/22/2009
White House Communications Director Ellen Moran is leaving her West Wing job to become Chief of Staff to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke. Moran will make the change in the coming weeks; she is poised to become the first senior Obama administration official to leave her position.
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