There is a new and much younger public face of the Florida Department of Elections.
Brittany Lesser, a 24-year-old former intern at the Washington bureau of NBC News, has taken over as communications director of the Florida Department of State.ย
The Colorado native and journalism graduate of Brigham Young University says she excited for her new Florida job.
โIt seems like a good fit,โ she told Steve Bousquet of the at the Tampa Bay Times.
Although her new office is relatively quiet now, Lesser will surely have her hands full as the 2014 election year approaches. Much of her job will be to manage the public scrutiny of the DOE as Gov. Rick Scott continues his program of scrubbing state voter registration rolls.
Lesser also spent two years as a staffer for U.S. Rep. Steve King from Iowa, the Republican who became notorious earlier this year for statements comparing illegal immigrants to drug smugglers, as well as calling for a government shutdown as a way to defund ObamaCare.
Lesser says she left Kingโs office โon good terms.โ
