Legislative chiefs of staff come and go, of course, but really good ones are hard to find and keep. Congrats to George Plescia for promoting Janelle Riella to COS (a great selection!), and best wishes to Shaun Flanigan as he leaves the Assembly for the Flanigan Law Firm as a legislative advocate. Elizabeth Helmsin has also been named Plescia’s capitol director.
I particularly liked Janelle’s message to me, which — yes — she understood was for publication:
“I am looking forward to my new role as chief of staff to one of the hardest working and most honest people I have ever known — George Plescia. I have been fortunate to have worked for Team Plescia and with so many other great people in San Diego County. In fact, it seems like just yesterday I was interning for you, Barry, learning everything there is to know about politics!”
Kinda makes me feel like a proud papa.
August 24th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Another way to intern with Barry is to become his housemate. You learn alot about politics when living with Barry. I got my 3 years of interning under Barry in the mid 80s. It must have been crazy living with Barry when Steve Baldwin was his housemate. I think Jon learned alot from hanging with Barry. Which brings up another point-Is it possible to hang with Barry and not learn anything about politics????
Now if I could just land a COS position…….