Kavanaugh accuser leans on Democratic operative for advice

She is looking to Ricki Seidman, a veteran of Obama and Clinton worlds, to help her navigate a potential hearing.

"Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were both teenagers, is being advised by Democratic operative Ricki Seidman.

Seidman, a senior principal at TSD Communications, worked as Joe Biden’s communications director during the 2008 general election campaign, after he was named Barack Obama’s running mate. In 2009, according to her online biography, she helped the White House manage the confirmation of Obama's Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

Before that, she worked in the Clinton White House as deputy communications director.

“I believe her and I think she’s very courageous for coming this far,” Seidman said in a brief interview, confirming her role advising Ford."

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/20/kavanaugh-accuser-democratic-operative-advice-833013

Ricki Seidman

Advisor

Ricki Seidman, a senior principal at TSD, is a seasoned communications strategist. At TSD, Ricki advises a wide range of clients in the corporate and non-profit spheres. She previously served in government and worked in campaigns. She served as VP Joe Biden’s communications director during President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, and in 2009 assisted the White House in their effort to confirm Justice Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s first nominee to the Supreme Court. After a senior role in the 1992 campaign, Ricki held several positions in the Clinton White House, including Deputy Communications Director, Counselor to the Chief of Staff, and Director of Scheduling and Advance for the President; she subsequently served as Deputy Associate Attorney General in the Department of Justice. Her experience also includes a stint as executive director of Rock the Vote, on the staff of the late Senator Edward Kennedy and at the civil liberties organization People for the American Way. She received a B.A. from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio and a J.D. from the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

https://benslighthouse.org/team/ricki-seidman/

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Ricki Seidman

Senior principal at TSD Communications

Ricki Seidman is a senior principal at TSD Communications. Her areas of specialty include solving short- and long-term communications challenges, developing public affairs strategies, campaign planning and execution, crisis management, litigation support, media training and reputation management. Her clients have included Google, Bechtel, News Corp/MySpace, Napster, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and Shawn Fanning. In 2017, Seidman was appointed to the ACS board of directors.

During the Clinton Administration, Seidman served as White House Deputy Communications Director, Counselor to the Chief of Staff and Director of Scheduling and Advance for the President. She also served as Deputy Associate Attorney General in the Department of Justice.

During the Obama Administration, she assisted the White House in the successful confirmation effort for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. She worked on President Obama’s general election campaign as Vice President Joe Biden’s Communications Director, ran the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign War Room, and directed a campaign that led to the successful passage of the Clinton economic plan in 1993. Seidman worked for Senator Ted Kennedy, of Massachusetts, as Chief Investigator on the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. She has also worked in senior positions for Rock the Vote and People for the American Way. Earlier in her career, she was a Harvard University Institute of Politics fellow.

Seidman received her J.D. from University of Georgia and her B.A. from Miami University.

https://www.acslaw.org/person/ricki-seidman/

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Ricki Seidman, aide to that defender of womanhood, Senator Ted Kennedy, and James Brudney, aide to Senator Howard Metzenbaum, were tipped off by the legion of liberal activists digging for dirt that Professor Hill harbored a secret grudge against Judge Thomas.

They called her and persuaded her to file the accusation that the reassembled Bork Brigade thought would surely bring him down. As the chosen instrument of the conspiracy to scare the nominee into withdrawing, Ms. Hill was assured by new and old friends that it could all be done from ambush; that her name would never be used publicly, or even made known to her target.

From her point of view, what was there to lose? She could settle a longstanding score, which she may well have persuaded herself to believe. In leaving a lifetime sinecure and following her mentor to his bigger job at E.E.O.C., she lost personal contact with him and soon became disgruntled.

She attributed her disappointment at the time to three telephone friends as sexual harassment, but never mentioned it to the woman with whom she shared her apartment (a fact developed by Andrea Mitchell of NBC, the network that has dominated the coverage); this does not make her charge true then or now. She could block his advance without any cost to herself in reputation because it would all be done "quietly and behind the scenes," as USA Today later reported she was assured.

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Thus was she manipulated into presenting a series of stories, each more vile and specific than the last, with the extensive help of some of the highest-priced legal talent and advocacy groups in Washington.

But when asked by Senator Arlen Specter (the panel's only adept questioner, atoning for his Bork defection) if anyone had told her of this plan to quietly pressure the target to quit – in effect, blackmail – she lied, and lied again, and lied a third time.

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/14/opinion/essay-the-plot-to-savage-thomas.html

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WTF? Spoiler that anon?

It that really her now?

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Wow. Just like Gene there!

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https://www.agg.com/Sara-Lord/