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   characterize her as speaking “regularly” with the president.   
      
   (Also on POLITICO: Wasserman Schultz and Pelosi split)   
      
   “The best way to describe it is: as often as we need,” she said.   
      
   According to multiple people familiar with the president,   
   Obama’s opinion of Wasserman Schultz was sealed back in 2011.   
   Shortly after becoming chairwoman, she pushed hard for a meeting   
   with the president that she kicked off by complaining that she   
   had been blocked from hiring the daughter of a donor — who’d   
   been on staff in her congressional office — as a junior staffer   
   to be the DNC’s Jewish community liaison.   
      
   Obama summed up his reaction to staff afterward: “Really?”   
      
   Asked about the relationship between the president and Wasserman   
   Schultz, the White House issued a statement praising the   
   chairwoman and DNC staff.   
      
   “The president’s foremost political goal is helping Democrats do   
   well in the midterms — and Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz   
   is doing a great job in that effort,” said White House spokesman   
   Eric Schultz. “The president is grateful for all of the hard   
   work being done by the entire team at the DNC. He fully   
   recognizes the value of their work, and that’s why he has worked   
   so hard to support them.”   
      
   Last summer, Wasserman Schultz and the White House clashed again.   
      
   (Also on POLITICO: DWS, O'Malley agree on border kids)   
      
   Wasserman Schultz resisted Obama circle favorites Marlon   
   Marshall and Buffy Wicks replacing Patrick Gaspard as executive   
   director. When Jarrett found out that Wasserman Schultz had had   
   her daughter sit in on the interview with Wicks at the end of   
   July 2013, she called to register her dismay, describing   
   Wasserman Schultz’s behavior, according to people familiar with   
   the conversation, as “completely unprofessional and rude.”   
      
   Shortly thereafter, the DNC chairwoman spoke at length to   
   POLITICO about how she planned to leverage the donors she’d met   
   as DNC chairwoman into fundraising to build chits for her own   
   political future. Jarrett was infuriated and called Wasserman   
   Schultz.   
      
   Jarrett had always been a defender, she reminded Wasserman   
   Schultz, according to people familiar with the call, but now she   
   delivered a clear message: She was disappointed by the narrative   
   in the story the chairwoman herself had fed, and cautioned her   
   to remember that Obama is head of the party.   
      
   Obama’s team came very close to replacing Wasserman Schultz   
   after the 2012 race.   
      
   (Driving the Day: Democrats distancing from Obama?)   
      
   At the Charlotte convention, Wasserman Schultz’s DNC staffers   
   assembled a collection of perks — entry to her skybox, access to   
   the chairwoman’s lounge — for House members and candidates she   
   was hoping to attract for her leadership run and DNC voting   
   members she would need to retain her DNC post should Obama   
   replace her. She also had her DNC staff explore and plot how she   
   could remain chairwoman if Obama lost the race.   
      
   A DNC official said Wasserman Schultz denies she ever made or   
   directed staff to make such inquiries in the event the president   
   was going to lose, but sources say White House and Obama   
   campaign staff were furious.   
      
   “She was trying to figure out what the protocol was,” said a DNC   
   staffer at the time. “What was the exact length of her term,   
   what would it take to run.”   
      
   http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/democrats-debbie-wasserman-   
   schultz-111077.html   
      
       
      
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