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Smoot was born in North Carolina. She graduated from Smith College in 1989. Smoot served as finance director for then Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle and as finance director for Senator John Edwards’s Senate race in 1998. She has also held positions with Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois and Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia (wikapedia_)

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She's part of the "inner circle...."

Obama's Brain Trust

The woman charged with asking them to part with their money was another Rouse hire, former Daschle finance chief Juliana Smoot.

Obama boasts a dedicated, high-powered inner circle

Julianna Smoot, finance director for the John Edwards 2004 campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in 2006, will fill the same role for Obama.

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I’m reading “The Politician” and I’m just at the page where Ms. Smoot tells Andrew Young that Washington is “cutthroat” and “it sucks”. Guess it doesn’t “suck” that bad.