Beto O'Rourke Hires Former Obama Aide as Campaign Manager

[crazytown]

Beto O’Rourke Hires Former Obama Aide as Campaign Manager
NY Times



Beto O’Rourke has hired a former top aide to Barack Obama to be his campaign manager, installing a seasoned political strategist to take the helm of what has so far been a skeletal organization effectively overseen by Mr. O’Rourke himself.

Jennifer O’Malley Dillon, a data expert who was Mr. Obama’s deputy campaign manager in 2012, said in an interview Monday that she was going to work for the 46-year-old former Texas congressman because he represents “a new generation of leadership I think we need.”

Ms. O’Malley Dillon was one of the most sought-after Democratic operatives of this election and her hiring suggests that Mr. O’Rourke is willing to professionalize his presidential bid in a way he resisted during his electrifying but unsuccessful Senate campaign last year.

A former executive director of the Democratic National Committee, Ms. O’Malley Dillon, 42, has worked on five presidential races and a number of other campaigns.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/us/politics/beto-jennifer-malley-dillon.html

[LakeArenal]

1. Good job, Beto.

You'd make a great VP

[JI7]

3. nobody is done this early on

[RLG]

4. Oh, I agree!

But it's a shame that one week a candidate is great, then the next week he/she is toast.

It's not even June and the infighting has begun.

It's sad.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

10. No, but close to it...was not a good week for Beto. But, I do think he can, perhaps, still rise

in the polls.


Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[Cha]

5. No.

[riverine]

6. If Beto hires Plouffe and Axelrod I will switch my vote

to him.

[JI7]

7. those guys, especially Axelrod are overrated. it was Obama's own incredible talent

which was why he did so well.

the same will be true for Beto if he is going to win this.

[BannonsLiver]

14. Definitely not overrated as campaign operatives

Obama had tremendous faith in both of them so I’d doubt he sees them the same way you do. As talented as Obama was as a candidate he still benefited from their expertise and knowledge of how to frame issues and messaging.

[George II]

8. Excellent choice. This proves he's serious!

[dalton99a]

9. He really needs good help

The guy was running a campaign out of his Dodge Caravan when I saw him

[BannonsLiver]

15. That's by design.

[Gothmog]

11. This is a great hire

Link to tweet

?s=20

[crazytown]

12. I'm in awe of people like Jen O'Malley Dillon

The incredible workload and responsibility they take onto their shoulders. 20 months with the rest of their lives on hold. Staggering.

[Blue_true]

13. If you calculate, she has been associated with democratic presidential

campaigns since she was ~21 years old. The guess here is that she knows how to run the other part of her life during that period and also likely has a terrific spouse. We need people that get analytics information to the top campaign people, that is where President Obama's groups excelled.