Senator Barack Obama has started the search for his VP. Senator Obama, the 'Washington is Broken' candidate, running on a platform of 'no more of the same' has tapped long time Washington insider Jim Johnson to start the search process.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Barack Obama is quietly beginning his search for a running mate, according to a veteran Democratic activist in Washington.
The activist told CNN that former Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson has accepted Obama's request to begin a screening and selection process for the No. 2 spot.
Johnson performed the same role in 2004 and 1984 for then-Democratic presidential nominees John Kerry and Walter Mondale.
The activist, a party operative who has been involved in Democratic presidential campaigns and conventions for more than 20 years, said it is his information that the process is "at a very early point but that within the campaign itself, they have been informally thinking about it for a while."
Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton declined to comment on the report.
According to WashingtonLife.com
JAMES "JIM" JOHNSON
VICE CHAIRMAN OF PERSEUS LLC.
The Ultimate Washington Insider. Married to Maxine Isaacs, a power in her own right, he has served on a trio of Washington power boards: Brookings, the Kennedy Center and Fannie Mae. Scandals notwithstanding, he is a true power broker with friends on every board from Goldman Sachs to Target Corporation, and he is a member of the American Friends of Bilderberg, the Council on Foreign Relations, and The Trilateral Commission. Ran the VP selection for Kerry in '04. As another insider commented, "One of two guys I'd jump highest and fastest for ..."
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