Post edited 4:21 am - January 26, 2021 by emely
Alums from President Biden’s 2020 campaign are joining mayoral candidate Shaun Donovan’s staff.
He tapped Brendan McPhillips, who was Biden’s state director for Pennsylvania, as campaign manager; Rameera Robbalaa, Biden’s former northeastern states organizing director, as his own organizing director; and Jeremy Edwards, the president’s Georgia press secretary, as his press secretary.
“Getting talent that is deeply rooted in New York and also won the states that put Biden over the top shows that we have picked the strongest talent and that they will bring the very latest skills for how to campaign,” Donovan told the Daily News on Tuesday.
Among other efforts, Robbalaa previously worked on Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz’s campaign. Amelia Adams, senior adviser to Donovan, previously held top roles at New York Communities for Change and former Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito’s office. Most of Donovan’s campaign staff are people of color.
Donovan’s time working for former President Barack Obama and then-Vice President Biden has been a main theme of his campaign. He was secretary of Housing and Urban Development, then head of the powerful Office of Management and Budget, under Obama. Donovan was commissioner of housing preservation and development under former Mayor Mike Bloomberg, though Donovan has played down that connection.
“Clearly, I’m the candidate with the strongest ties not just to President Biden and Vice President [Kamala] Harris, both of whom I’ve worked with regularly, who I know not just as colleagues, but as friends,” he said. “What also separates me is the deep and broad relationships I have with a huge share of the incoming senior team in the administration as well as with senior leaders in Congress.”
Donovan also took a dig at Andrew Yang, though he did not mention him by name.
“This is not a game of who’s got whose telephone number,” he said. “The fundamental question here is which candidate can make sure that relationships in Washington make a real difference in the lives of average New Yorkers.”
Yang, who campaigned for Biden and Harris after dropping out of the Democratic presidential primary, recently boasted to NY1: “I’ve literally got the vice president’s number.”
Donovan has raised nearly $1.7 million total for his mayoral run and expects to get about another $1 million in public matching funds.
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