Zingale named Shriver Chief of Staff

Maria Shriver named her new chief-of-staff today, Daniel Zingale. But the long press release of his past experience leaves out a pretty key person he used to work for--former Governor Gray Davis. Instead, the release reads: He was cabinet secretary in the Office of the Governor in 2003 where he was the liaison between the Governor and cabinet secretaries, state agencies, departments, boards and commissions. Zingale served as the founding director of the Department of Managed Health Care, a department designed to promote patient rights and a more stable and solvent managed health care industry, from 2000 to 2002. The Office of the Governor in 2003 does not obscure the fact that the Governor who occupied that Office was Davis. It is also an interesting pick because the Zingale served for four years as political director and director of public policy for the Human Rights Campaign (HRC)and as a member of the Executive Committee on Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. The HRC is a gay rights group located in Washington D.C. that is pushing for gay marriage. Zingale served a political and publicy policy director, and now he will serve as chief-of-staff to the wife of Schwarzenegger, just in time for his veto of the gay marriage bill.