There was speculation that Solis Doyle would head Latino outreach for Obama, but in a campaign email announcing new staff roles, that job goes to Temo Figueroa, an Obama loyalist who had been national field director during the primaries. Instead, Solis Doyle, who reportedly has been pissed since her ouster from Team Clinton, is given the odd job of “Chief of Staff to the Vice Presidential Nominee.”
Longtime politicos: Is it customary for the presidential nominee, not the V.P. pick, to decide who should fill that role? I also have to assume that this is a way of signaling that Hillary Clinton will not be the V.P. nominee. By all accounts, there’s bad blood between the two women, which is sad, since Solis Doyle started out as Clinton’s scheduler way back in Arkansas and climbed to become her campaign manager.
—Dana Goldstein
