Obama Hires Progressive Liaison For Transition Team

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/10/obama-hires-progressive-l_n_142648.html


Obama Hires Progressive Liaison For Transition Team
Nico Pitney/Sam Stein
November 10, 2008 10:29 AM


Veteran Democratic official Mike Lux has been tapped by Barack Obama to serve as an adviser and progressive liaison during the transition period, the Huffington Post has learned.

Lux, who worked on the Clinton administration transition efforts in 1992, confirmed the hiring but, citing a need for clearance, declined to offer further information.

The staffing move provides the Obama team with an important outlet to the progressive community -- a constituency from which the president-elect currently enjoys great support but one that has a wide range of priorities and will be holding Obama most firmly to his campaign promises once he takes office.

After working in the Clinton White House on issues ranging from health care and the budget to school lunch policy, he founded Progressive Strategies LLC and began writing for the site OpenLeft.com in July 2007. He also helped co-found a number of progressive institutions including: Americans United for Change, Center for Progressive Leadership, Grassroots Democrats, Progressive Majority, Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, and Women's Voices/Women Vote. He writes for the Huffington Post.

and demonstrates that President Obama will be listening to many different perspectives. And that's how it should be.

Is he real or is he just another Will-Marshall-Type turd in the political punchbowl?

Mike Lux Hired by Obama Transition to Handle Loud-Mouthed Liberals

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Clinton administration start-up.

Mike was a really good community organizer, I think it was called Citizens Action. He emerged in the early 1980s, when he was in his early 20s. He's got to be close to 50 years old, maybe 48.

He and his wife, Barbara, are confirmed liberals.

He worked for Bill Clinton during Bill's years at the White House.

He and Joe Lockhart did some stuff together a few years back, but damned if I can remember what it was.

He's a good guy.