His other main function, they said, is that of head cheerleader for morale, organizing softball, touch football and most recently a staff tennis tournament, with the championship held at the court at his parents' house.
The food in the visitor center cafeteria is pretty good, although the seating, built out on a deck over water, gets crowded and, on the busy day I was most recently there, staff needed to do a better job picking up abandoned trays and emptying recycling and garbage bins before they filled up.
Most recently, a former staff member accused her of making antigay remarks at him.
O'Connor most recently was a staff writer at Forbes where she covered woman entrepreneurs, workplace equality, and diversity in tech and Silicon Valley.
Late last week, Mr. Scott hired a new chief of staff, Steve MacNamara, who was most recently the chief of staff and general counsel to the Florida Senate president.
Rick Barber, who also worked briefly at Andreessen Horowitz — he was a data scientist on staff in 2013 — most recently served as the chief of staff at Nuna, a five-year-old, San Francisco-based health care analytics company.
Every week brings inquiries about starting chapters, most recently from students or staff members at Arizona State University, Luzerne County Community College in Pennsylvania, the University of Central Florida and Humboldt State University in California.
I asked Steve Rosenthal, the president of the Organizing Group and a former political director of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., and John Lawrence, who spent 38 years as a top aide on Capitol Hill, most recently as chief of staff to Nancy Pelosi, about how they deal with question of moral principle versus political pressure when evaluating a controversial vote.
David most recently worked as a staff photojournalist at the Athens Banner-Herald in Athens, Ga.
He served most recently as Chief of Staff to the Deputy Mayor for Education for the District of Columbia, playing a lead role in school reform efforts, including the mayoral takeover of the school system and the successful Race to the Top application.
