As best as I can find it looks like this will be a tax payer funded office. Wait what is that I hear from the R side of the aisle ? False alarm just crickets.
White House to launch new political office By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE | 1/24/14 3:00 PM EST Updated: 1/24/14 9:29 PM EST
Democratic campaign operatives have been getting worried that the White House wasn’t doing enough to help them in the midterms, and that President Barack Obama didn’t care enough to change that.
Friday, Obama responded: David Simas, a longtime aide who returned to the White House after running polling and focus groups for the reelection campaign, was named director of a new Office of Political Strategy and Outreach.
The re-establishment of an internal political operation marks a significant shift for the White House, and the latest step in a 2014 West Wing reorientation that’s aimed at quickly making up for years of lost time, both on Capitol Hill and around the country. ..... ..... ......
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