Neera Tanden named staff secretary for President Biden
Source: Washington Post
Neera Tanden speaks in Wilmington, Del., in December after being nominated to lead the Office of Management and Budget. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)
Neera Tanden was named the next White House staff secretary on Friday morning, putting her in the nerve center of the building charged with overseeing the paper flow for President Biden, according to a White House official briefed on the move. White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain announced the move in a morning staff call.
She has been working for Biden since May and will also retain her current title of White House senior adviser, which has allowed her to advise the president on a wide range of issues, the person said. Tanden will replace Jessica Hertz, a former Obama administration attorney who worked more recently in the government affairs office of Facebook. White House officials have praised Hertz as a highly regarded, well-liked member of the team.
Hertz will leave the job on Friday, a planned departure that was first reported by Politico last week, and Tanden will start on Monday, the official said. The staff secretary, who reports to the chief of staff, traditionally plays the role of both traffic cop and honest broker in the White House, with control over the documents that make it to the president, whether they be briefing books or decision memos laying out the arguments on major decisions.
The White House staff secretary has often served as a steppingstone for other roles in government. Former White House counsel Harriet Miers, Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh and former White House chief of staff John D. Podesta, a mentor for Tanden, have all previously held the job.
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The RW have a billion "think tanks" (a bunch probably including a PAC too), where some have "annual" conferences that get "wall to wall" media coverage of their circus performances like CPAC and "Focus on the Family". 
I guess because a number of liberal organizations are more into actually doing work for the cause, they are more "on the ground" focused rather than in front of the camera. I suppose some of the earlier ones that were more "out there" included "Move On" and "Occupy", and more recently "Indivisible", but about all that is left that actually has annual "conventions" is "Netroots" which was spawned out of DKos but at least has an "annual" event that gets some media attention.
Hell... The "Sturgis" idiocy gets more attention than anything we put on. 
We need the equivalent of a "The Lincoln Project" and a "Meidas Touch" arm of the party doing the messaging and that will let the other orgs do what they do at the "grassroots" level. Of course that requires $$$$ and $$$ should be devoted to it.
I agree with you here..
Also with what you said just above---- "We need the equivalent of a "The Lincoln Project" and a "Meidas Touch" arm of the party doing the messaging....."
It's true though... You need your "attack dog" messengers that have tightly-controlled messages ("controlled" meaning without continually going off-script with stuff that could become a distraction). "Move On" used to do that in the past but there should be a whole new generation of young activists who are expert at social media who could spearhead something.
valuable for Democracy Neera Tanden is.. and she knows Bullshit when she sees it. 
