Laughable.
” ... the transgressions of Mr. Krone — [cut list of transgressions] have damaged Democratic unity at a time when the party can least afford it, ...”
I think 90% of the Democrats problem is Obama. He’s their Albatross and hopefully millstone for 2016.
Krone’s disease..
Krone’s wife just left the White House. Here is a description of her position.
“Ms. Mastromonaco has the lowest profile of that original Obama brain trust, which included Mr. Rouse, David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs and David Plouffe. One reason: Only Mr. Rouse is as reticent with reporters. (Ms. Mastromonaco declined to speak on the record for this article.)
Since January 2005, Ms. Mastromonaco not only has managed Mr. Obama’s schedule and global travel — like secret trips to Afghanistan and Iraq, and the election-eve tour of damage from Hurricane Sandy with Gov. Chris Christie, Republican of New Jersey — but also has had a voice in the strategy behind it all.
“She is not just somebody who says, ‘We have to get from A to B,’ ” Mr. Rouse said. “She’s a person who says, ‘We have to get from A to B, and on the way, here are the problems we’re going to have, here are the challenges we have, here are the opportunities.”
Is this the NYT’s attempt to rehabilitate Reid before 2016, when he has to face the voters?
It appears to me from reading this that Reid is nothing but a senile old bat who is propped up by Krone. Without Krone, Reid will be seen as nothing but a drooling, incompetent fool.
Why is there a painting of GEORGE WASHINGTON in that office? What does Washington have to do with Democrats these days?
...and where is the picture of his mentor, Karl Marx?
““I don’t smoke and I don’t drink, and it’s not — I mean with him it’s obviously religious and deep feelings,” said Mr. Krone, who has climbed Everest. “For me it was just who I am.””
What the hell does RELIGION have to do with anything? This is an article about Democrats.
BENJY SARLIN – JUNE 22, 2011, 5:46 PM EDT22
Majority Leader Harry Reid’s chief of staff, David Krone, left a highly lucrative gig at Comcast before working for the Senator. As part of his exit from the company, he’s collected $1.2 million in additional payment since taking his job with Reid.
Mr. Krone, for example, earned about $165,000 working for Mr. Reid (D., Nev.) in 2009, public records indicate. In 2008, he earned nearly $3 million from Comcast, not including the $1.2 million condo payment he received after starting with Mr. Reid. There is no evidence that Mr. Reid has done anything in particular to benefit Comcast since Mr. Krone came to work for him.
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Meet the missus ....
It was Mastromonaco who orchestrated presidential trips to Iraq and Afghanistan, and who skillfully and secretly set up meetings between Obama and his potential vice presidential picks even as the press watched the campaign’s every move. She’s been with Obama since his days in the Senate.
By all accounts, her White House titles — deputy chief of staff for operations for the past three years, and scheduling director before that — do not fully convey Ms. Mastromonaco’s role in helping decide how Mr. Obama spends his time, whom he sees, where he goes and whom he appoints.
“She has a power that is relatively scary to people,” said one Democratic activist who declined to be identified.
Nor do the titles hint at Ms. Mastromonaco’s close relationships with both the president and Michelle Obama, after coordinating their lives for so long.
“She’s like family to them,” said Pete Rouse, another of the original circle and Ms. Mastromonaco’s mentor, who left in December. In the 2010 magazine interview, she repeatedly referred to the president as “Barack,” a familiarity almost unheard-of among aides to any president. (Colleagues say she calls him “Mr. President.”)
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Ms. Mastromonaco was a bridge to some senators long before she married David Krone, chief of staff to Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader. They took two days off in November to be married by Justice Elena Kagan at the Supreme Court, witnessed only by Ms. Mastromonaco’s aides.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/11/alyssa-mastromonaco-joins-vice-media-198855.html
Alyssa Mastromonaco joins Vice Media
By HADAS GOLD | 11/16/14 10:33 PM EST
Vice Media has named former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Alyssa Mastromonaco as their newest Chief Operating Officer, the company announced Sunday evening.
Mastromonaco, one of President Barack Obama’s longest-serving staffers from his days in the Senate, left the White House in May and had taken a position as contributing editor at Marie Claire. She will assume her new role with Vice in January.
Vice’s current COO, Richard Waterlow, will be taking on the role of President of Vice International. Mastromonaco will oversee operations for all of Vice’s divisions and platforms and will work on the expansion of the company’s network of channels, partnerships and joint ventures.
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Buncha whiners...