“For those of you who like to read the last page of a book first, here’s a spoiler. On the Sundance Channel’s series “The Hill,” which chronicles the everyday work lives of staffers for Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.), Wexler’s foreign policy adviser Haley Soifer ditches her Republican boyfriend for a Democratic one.
Though he’s never identified by full name on screen, Hill hands will recognize the new, blue paramour as Andrew Kauders, the former executive director of the House Democratic Caucus and aide to Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) who is now a principal with government-relations firm PodestaMattoon.
The four of six filmed episodes that have aired so far have delved into Kauder and Soifer’s debate over whether they should move in together.
Unlike so many other reality-TV couples (i.e., Whitney and Bobby, and nearly every couple from the Bachelor), the two are now blissfully married.
They tied the knot Aug. 19 in Lansing, Michigan.
Another update: Soifer has left Wexler’s office to pursue a master’s degree at Johns Hopkins in foreign policy with an emphasis in the Middle East. Soifer says she misses life on the Hill, particularly her old colleagues in Wexler’s office. But now she’s happily busy with subjects such as Arabic language and economics, which she says she wouldn’t have been able to pick up on the job.
Still, Soifer says she’d like to come back to the Hill, work for a campaign, or maybe in the executive branch someday.
“There’s something very addictive about the Hill,” she says.”
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oh, so cute.../s