Bush campaign national field director Ken Mehlman was named White House political director. Sperling Advances to Massachusetts Avenue Moving on . . . National Economic Council director Gene Sperling , who's advised Bill Clinton since the 1992 campaign, is signing on at the end of the month to be a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution. He's also going to co-chair a new group called the Basic Education Advocacy Roundtable. Its founders are Lorine Card , who worked in the Reagan White House and for a few New Hampshire governors before most recently being a director of MediaOne's Washington office, and Valerie LoCascio , a director with the Bozell Sawyer Miller Group who has done strategic PR and marketing for major film and television operations.
Card is well-connected.
He's also Bush chief of staff Andrew H. Card Jr. 's brother. Down for the Count Clinton administration political folks at a Saturday reception were treated to buttons commemorating the administration's term. Going to the Other Sector John T. Spotila , administrator of the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, heads to info-tech firm GTSI as chief operating officer. News Jobs AP Shopping Archives Entertain.