Danny O’Brien knows how to choose ‘em. I detect a common theme in the following!
13 Jan 2015: Roll Call: Menendez Staffer Bids Farewell to Hill Life
By Humberto Sanchez
Danny O’Brien never had a career path plotted out — certainly not one that included serving as Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff director for the past two years, in the Clinton White House or in senior Senate posts for now-Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J.
Now, after more than 20 years in the public sector, O’Brien is calling it quits to join General Electric’s global government affairs team...
O’Brien was Biden’s Senate chief of staff in 2003, then helped lead his 2008 run for president.
“Danny has not only real substantive depth on domestic and foreign policy issues, he also understands how to get things done,” Biden told Roll Call through an email from his staff. “He knows the right thing to do at the right moment. That’s the mark of a good leader.”...
For the 1998 cycle, O’Brien was hired by the Democratic National Committee to lead a program organizing and training state parties and campaigns, helping to shape the response to Bill Clinton’s impeachment...
In 2000, again at the behest of Reid, O’Brien led Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore’s campaign in Nevada. After a second campaign loss, O’Brien thought he’d had enough of political campaigns. That was until he met Jim McGreevey, who was running for governor of New Jersey, in a move that would lead him to Biden.
It took some convincing, including from then-Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, who is now governor of Virginia, but O’Brien did join the ultimately victorious McGreevy campaign. Of course, three years later McGreevey surprisingly resigned after confessing to having a secret male lover whom he had tried to install as a Homeland Security adviser...
After the 2001 gubernatorial campaign, then-Sen. Robert G. Torricelli, D-N.J., tapped O’Brien to be his chief of staff. But that ended up being Torricelli’s last year in Congress. After the Ethics Committee admonished him for accepting gifts from a campaign donor, Torricelli decided not to seek re-election in 2002...
O’Brien helped Lautenberg set up his office before moving over as Biden’s chief of staff. In 2006, O’Brien left Capitol Hill to become political director of Biden’s presidential campaign...
Biden, who had a shoestring campaign budget, came in fifth in the Iowa caucuses and shortly thereafter dropped out of the race. But O’Brien said he still feels like they came in second, since Barack Obama chose Biden to join the ticket as his running mate...
https://www.rollcall.com/2015/01/13/menendez-staffer-bids-farewell-to-hill-life/