Reply #11: Her name is Tracy Sefl

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http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/newspapers/hillary_loves_drudge_for_loving_tracy_69562.asp

Monday Oct 22, 2007
Hillary Loves Drudge For Loving Tracy

It's all over the series of tubes today...the NYT piece on the relationship between Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and The Drudge Report. Who does Hillary have to thank for this?

But, typical of a campaign with a reputation for exploiting every advantage and trying to neutralize every disadvantage, Mrs. Clinton's communications team, led by Howard Wolfson, is not leaving Mr. Drudge to the Republicans. Five current and former Democratic officials said Mrs. Clinton has on her side the closest thing her party has ever had to Mr. Rhoades in Tracy Sefl, a former Democratic National Committee official, who has established a friendly working relationship with Mr. Drudge -- and through whom Mrs. Clinton's campaign often worked quietly to open a line of communication.

That effort has helped to mix some positive stories in with the negative fare about Mrs. Clinton that Mr. Drudge still serves up regularly, they said, though Ms. Sefl's fingerprints are usually impossible to spot. ...

Democrats have long known how the McCain campaign felt. And it is precisely why, a strategist close to the Clinton campaign said, her aides had decided to use the site more aggressively and capitalize on the line to him established by Ms. Sefl -- now a vice president at the Glover Park Group, the former firm of Mr. Wolfson, Mrs. Clinton's communications director, and an informal adviser to Mrs. Clinton's campaign chairman, Terry McAuliffe. Ms. Sefl had no comment.