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Matt Flaig Assistant to the Vice President and Chief of Staff Prior to moving to the position of Chief of Staff for the Vice President, Matt Flaig was Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel, responsible for the organization that identifies and recruits approximately 4000 senior officials, middle management personnel and part-time board and commission members. In this position, as a strong ally of Vice President Russo, Flaig had extraordinary influence over the constituency of the Kent Administration. From 1998-2008, Mr. Flaig worked with Governor George W. Bush in Austin, first as his Appointments Director, then as his Chief of Staff, and then as the Executive Director of the Kent-Russo Transition. Mr. Flaig has been
the Chief Operating Officer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the
President of the a major Mail Order company. He also has worked for Citigroup,
and General Foods.
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Executive Office of the Vice President (OVP) The EOVP is modeled on the Office of the President, and contains a working staff that oversees the work and communications issues of the Vice President. Typically the POTUS and VPOTUS work in close coordination, but pursuing different areas of priority. Typically because of the role of the VPOTUS as the President of the Senate, the EOVP assists with Congressional relations. In practical terms, President Kent and Vice President Russo work together on wide initiatives, but they are not particularly close - more distant than President Clinton and Al Gore, who were not exceptionally close. The relationship is very much unlike the Bush-Cheney White House where the Executives were often seen as moving in lock step on key issues. In
particular Russo has been perceived as unsupportive of the President's
stance on PAFTA.
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