Hillary Clinton's former policy director, Neera Tanden, will start working for Obama

[Hope And Change]

June 27, 2008
Categories: Hillary Clinton

Tanden signs on


Hillary Clinton's former policy director, Neera Tanden, will start next week in Chicago as Barack Obama's Director of Domestic Policy, reporting to policy director Heather Higginbottom, a source familiar with the plans said.

Tanden is the most senior Clinton loyalist to join Obama, a close, longtime aide whose move is not seen in Hillaryland as a defection -- as some saw the early decision of departed campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle -- but as a natural element of the shift to the general election.

She was a key architect of, among other things, Clinton's healthcare plan, whose more aggressive push for universal coverage through mandates became was probably the key domestic policy difference between the Democrats.



By Ben Smith 09:59 AM

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0608/Tanden_signs_on.html

[Tom Rinaldo]

1. This indicates some real unity progress. Good. n/t