Barack Obama delivers on claims to aid family

  • By ERICA WERNER

  • Posted: Thursday, February 2, 2012 7:00 a.m.
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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama may help Jennifer Wedel's husband find a job. Whether he gets her vote is another question.


Two days after Obama talked with Wedel during an online town hall and offered to take a look at her unemployed husband's resume, Wedel said the president has followed through.


Wedel told The Associated Press in a phone interview Wednesday that she got a call from a White House deputy chief of staff, Alyssa Mastromonaco, who told her Obama had made a personal point of making sure the matter was taken care of. Mastromonaco said the resume was sent to contacts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area where the couple lives.


Now Wedel's husband Darin has been contacted by several recruiters, and Wedel said she's grateful.


But Wedel, a Republican, said that may not be enough to get her vote unless Obama also improves some of his job policies.


"Just because he's able to send a resume out, that's not going to be a vote factor," Wedel said.

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