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Tusk's career- other than his four years as Blagojevich's top aide- consists of five years of leash law and litter policy at the New York City Parks Department two years as a spokesman for Senator Charles Schumer, one year as a low-level adviser at the start of Bloomberg's firstterm, and nearly two years as alobbyist for another 2008 debacle, Lehman Brothers. Since the Blagojevich job is Tusk's only significant managerial experience, it oddly becomes the rationale for his hire, an uncomfortable reality for a mayor known to pick the best talent available.
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Bloomberg's Dark Knight
When Mike Bloomberg named Bradley Tusk to run his $80 million re-election campaign in December, the mayortook pains to explain that his new 35-yearold hire was not tainted by his most prominent prior employer- Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who had been arrested just three Bays earlier.
Tusk "never had anythingto do with parts of that administration," Bloomberg told the Times. He knew this, he explained, because tusk, Blagojevich's first-term Deputy Governor, had told him so, bringing it up himself "to make sure we were aware of the issues" before he was given the all-powerful campaign manager postSince Bloomberg made that announcement, he has derisively dismissed press Questions about the campaign as if it were Unconnected to him. The message from him feclean The self-vetted Tusk is now in charge, iandpicking, for example, the most expensive collection of advisers ever assembled under a single city campaign.That team of seasoned consultants, including the face of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, Howard Wolfson, now all report to the youthful Tusk, who has never worked on a campaign, even at the most junior level. Tusk's career- other than his four years as Blagojevich's top aide- consists of five years of leash law and litter policy at the New York City Parks Department two years as a spokesman for Senator Charles Schumer, one year as a low-level adviser at the ...See the full content of this document
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