Oh, How Soon They Forget

I pwned Leiben­thal on this fact last night, but it appears the rest of the urchins are par­rot­ing his post last night on the news of the Walker Campaign’s lat­est hire need a his­tory les­son as well.

With all the excite­ment of the hire of Ms. Jill Bader to  the Walker cam­paign, the name “Anson Kaye” appears to have been lost on the polit­i­cal blog­ging left of Wisconsin.

Gov­er­nor Jim Doyle today announced the appoint­ment of Anson Kaye as Senior Pol­icy Advi­sor.  Kaye most recently served as the Chief of Staff for Con­gress­man Anthony Weiner of New York in Wash­ing­ton, D.C.  Kaye also served as Weiner’s Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Direc­tor and Senior Advi­sor dur­ing his recent cam­paign for mayor of New York City.

“Anson brings with him a wealth of expe­ri­ence from Wash­ing­ton, D.C., New York, and Boston, and we are for­tu­nate that he has decided to join us here in the Mid­west,” Gov­er­nor Doyle said.  “He will be a vital mem­ber of my Admin­is­tra­tion as we con­tinue the impor­tant work of invest­ing in kids, grow­ing our econ­omy, expand­ing access to health care, and pro­tect­ing taxpayers.”

Before serv­ing Anthony Weiner in his con­gres­sional office and on his may­oral cam­paign, Kaye was the Press Sec­re­tary for Mid­dle­sex Dis­trict Attor­ney Martha Coak­ley in Mass­a­chu­setts.  Kaye received his J.D. from George Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­sity Law School in 1997 and grad­u­ated Cum Laude from Bran­deis Uni­ver­sity in 1991.

Anson Kaye’s appoint­ment fills the vacancy left by for­mer Senior Pol­icy Advi­sor Kirk Brown.

The “Senior Pol­icy Advi­sor” job was a total smoke­screen, within three months, Kaye was the spokesman for the 2006 Doyle re-election campaign.

But hey, why let a lit­tle thing like the past his­tory screw up a meme that cap­per thinks will gain trac­tion with the elec­torate.  (Um, Chris, it won’t.)

Typ­i­cally no one cares what a cam­paign mouth­piece is say­ing in the first place, why would they care where they’re from?

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