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Proud Public Servant

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4. You have no idea how a DC career works
Fri May 29, 2015, 12:22 PM
May 2015

DC is full of young wildly underpaid strivers, struggling to gain enough experience to climb the ladder (my daughter, in fact, is one of them). To do they, they frequently take jobs that do not totally align with their ideals, which I know is completely unheard of anywhere else in America. Why? Sometimes those are the jobs you can get. Sometimes you can't resist the cash (student loans don't pay themselves). Sometimes a dubious job will nevertheless enhance your skill set and resume enough to allow you access to the jobs you really want. All sorts of good reasons.

But seeking to tar Hillary because a woman on her staff who campaigned for Obama and worked for DC's reformist mayor also had a job once that didn't pass someone's purity test? That's pathetic.

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So we ignore Ms. Dranes public service? mcar May 2015 #1
That doesn't make for good headlines... awoke_in_2003 May 2015 #43
Too true mcar May 2015 #45
Her twitter page: JaneyVee May 2015 #2
Sounds like great choice considering her service. leftofcool May 2015 #3
You have no idea how a DC career works Proud Public Servant May 2015 #4
People know all about industry-government revolving doors Man from Pickens May 2015 #6
+1,000 Scuba May 2015 #46
I don't think that's a helpful excuse. It just emphasizes how corrupted our system is. sabrina 1 May 2015 #10
+1000000000 woo me with science May 2015 #42
I myself had a DC career and never once worked as a corporate lobbyist Report1212 May 2015 #15
It's an industry that favors those with Congressional experience Proud Public Servant May 2015 #27
What was your "DC Career"? ... 1StrongBlackMan May 2015 #39
Didn't you know? ... 1StrongBlackMan May 2015 #38
Well said tazkcmo May 2015 #40
Junk food? You ignore her other work, and MineralMan May 2015 #5
Maybe we are all supposed to be self sufficient and produce our own food?/NT DemocratSinceBirth May 2015 #8
For my money mythology May 2015 #18
I always try to include qualifying language. MineralMan May 2015 #19
They sound like they are representing grocery stores or something... kenfrequed May 2015 #29
It still has nothing to do with Black Outreach for a campaign. MineralMan May 2015 #30
I understand that kenfrequed May 2015 #35
Keep us the good work, President Hillary Clinton thanks you./NT DemocratSinceBirth May 2015 #7
Incredibly lame hit piece on a woman who has spent her sufrommich May 2015 #9
What does "Black Outreach" MineralMan May 2015 #11
I assure you these attacks on a young, aspirational African American woman ... DemocratSinceBirth May 2015 #13
Not a HRC supporter tazkcmo May 2015 #41
I do not see anything about junk food on their website KamaAina May 2015 #12
Sounds like an amazing person with excellent credentials. NCTraveler May 2015 #14
oops. NCTraveler May 2015 #16
It's totally fair to point out politicans' connections to big business... Cheese Sandwich May 2015 #17
Who do you work for? MineralMan May 2015 #20
None of your business Cheese Sandwich May 2015 #21
Yes, you're right. It's none of my business. MineralMan May 2015 #22
Clearly, all future appointees MUST have previously been self employed Sheepshank May 2015 #23
The funny thing is that she'll be heading up Black Outreach for the MineralMan May 2015 #28
Doesn't it suck when a business hires... NCTraveler May 2015 #26
I can see it just burns you when a company hires a qualified person... Cheese Sandwich May 2015 #32
This person is not a part of some kind of revolving door. NCTraveler May 2015 #34
I'm sure she is a most respected and qualified manager, political organizer and corporate lobbyist. Cheese Sandwich May 2015 #36
The Grocery Manufacturers Association is at the forefront of the anti-GMO labeling campaign RufusTFirefly May 2015 #24
She's been hired as the black outreach coordinator,why is she being sufrommich May 2015 #31
Weak attack. n/t Orsino May 2015 #25
She seems more than qualified Prism May 2015 #33
y-e-a-h...sufficiently embarassed about promoting a lying headline? Sheepshank May 2015 #37
Here's a tip about scraping the bottom of the barrel: OilemFirchen May 2015 #44
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