Look no farther than your own (new) backyard.
That could be the advice President Barack Obama remembers when nominating people to his administration. In a nod to Mayor Adrian Fenty, Obama successfully got a second person from the D.C. mayor’s office to pack up and move across Pershing Park to the White House as a top official.
The Senate Committee on Finance held a hearing Tuesday on the nomination of former City Administrator and Deputy Mayor Daniel Tangherlini to be assistant secretary for financial management and chief financial officer under Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.
With family present at the hearing, Tangherlini spoke about his long tradition of public service.
“Working for Mayor Williams and, later, Mayor Fenty, I had the pleasure to watch the fortunes of our nation’s Capitol turn nearly full-circle.” Tangherlini said.
This is the second former-Fentyite now with Obama. Earlier this year he tapped D.C’s chief technology officer Vivek Kundra as his new chief information officer. He also recently nominated one of Fenty’s senior advisers, James L. Hudson, to the job of Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Don’t worry about Fenty. Last month in an interview he stated, “Professionally, there’s no greater compliment.”
