Hillary Clinton Hires Julian Castro’s Speechwriter

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Gregory Bell, who had a hand in the rumored vice presidential contender’s major speeches, is joining the campaign.

posted on Jun. 6, 2016, at 4:08 p.m.

Adrian Carrasquillo
BuzzFeed News Reporter

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is bringing on Gregory Bell, who is leaving the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, where he served as director of speechwriting for HUD Secretary Julian Castro, an oft-rumored vice presidential candidate, according to three sources with knowledge of the hire.

Bell will serve as a speechwriter under director of speechwriting, Dan Schwerin.

While Castro is known to do a lot of writing for his speeches himself, Bell, whose tenure at HUD predates Castro, took the lead on all of his major speeches, with the two working closely together.

A source who worked with Bell said he and Castro have a great relationship.

“I don’t know if people should read anything into it for VP consideration though I think they will anyway,” said Democratic strategist Maria Cardona.

“Right now, they’re focused on the nomination and frankly the next big thing on the plate is party unity,” she added.

Continued at Buzzfeed

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1. Gregory Bell sounds really good.. and HUD Sec Julian Castro writes a lot of

the speeches, too.

Thanks Boot.. this is all so interesting.. all the steps along the way.

“Right now, they’re focused on the nomination and frankly the next big thing on the plate is party unity,” she added.

And, then the VP spot! Great pic!

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2. I hope she announces b4 Trump....

I really don't want her to wait till after, as if her choice is somehow a reaction to the Dumpster. She should do it ASAP and beat him to the punch (thereby implying that he had a hard time finding someone to go along with his dumbass "policies" - which is in fact the case).