Pressing for a Secretary
Good help is hard to find, even when you're Arnold Schwarzenegger. More than a month after Margita Thompson, the governor's press secretary, resigned, the administration has been unable to find a replacement.
Early on, Matt David, the well-liked deputy communications director for Schwarzenegger's reelection campaign, was rumored to have a lock on the job, but he has apparently decided to return to D.C., according to sources. With the governor's State of the State speech and budget coming up next month, communications director Adam Mendelsohn has hired former deputy press secretary and campaign spokeswoman Julie Soderlund through mid-January as a stopgap, but there is no word on a permanent successor.
We're not sure why. The job seems simple enough: translate and explain all the utterances of a notoriously off-the-cuff governor and placate the ceaseless demands of reporters throughout California and the world. Plus, you get to work holidays and weekends for no extra money.
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