Webb's Smith Named Among Washington's Most Beautiful

By: The Grey Havens
Published On: 7/25/2007 11:56:38 AM

As anyone who's met Jim Webb's Communications Director, Jessica Smith, will tell you, she's not just one of the best communications professionals working in politics, but she's also shockingly lovely.

That fact didn't escape the editors of The Hill who yesterday released their annual list of "The 50 Most Beautiful People on Capitol Hill", rightly including Jessica.

Here's my favorite part of the writeup:

Smith's selection this year gives the dashing Webb a leg up in the Most Beautiful Office contest next year, as Webb press secretary Kimberly Hunter is also a veteran of the 50. Making the list is "definitely an honor," Smith says, "though winning the spelling bee is traditionally more my speed."

Congratulations Jessica!

The full writeup is [here], see if you know anyone else on the list.


Comments



Ms Smith (AmerIdiot - 7/25/2007 1:43:39 PM)
What a babe!!


Wow. (Silence Dogood - 7/25/2007 2:58:04 PM)
I'm obviously kayaking on the wrong part of the Potomac.


Hollywood for ugly people? (Lowell - 7/25/2007 3:39:18 PM)
Isn't that what some people call Washington, DC?  Guess not! :)


Maybe it's Hollywood for people who aren't nearly as coked out, (Silence Dogood - 7/25/2007 4:09:12 PM)
Considering as Ms. Smith's picture reminds me more of Lindsay Lohan (pre-binge drinking) than Lindsay Lohan's mugshot....  And she's witty and works in public service, too--almost certainly a better role model than one would find in a supermarket check-out gossip rag.


Dems have a 29-16 "beauty" edge (Lowell - 7/25/2007 4:02:20 PM)
over Republicans, with 5 "undecided" or "equally cynical about both parties" or whatever.  I'm not sure what it means, but I'm just glad that I'm a Democrat!  Ha.


The Babe Theory of Politics (The Grey Havens - 7/25/2007 4:26:11 PM)
Possibly worth keeping in the back of your mind.

Future democratic revolutionaries take note. The key to protest in the 21st century will be the photo. Get your flag, your signs, put your hot women out front and change the world.


Considering.. (mpg137 - 7/25/2007 4:33:22 PM)
..Nancy Pelosi is 4th, I put this whole list in questions


I doubt too many people would complain (Lowell - 7/25/2007 5:27:51 PM)
if they looked as good as Nancy Pelosi does at 67 years old!


Is this for real?? (Shenandoah Democrat - 7/25/2007 5:54:36 PM)
Am I missing something here?
I'm amazed that Capital Hill staff actually go for this sort of stuff. I thought they're all so busy with their jobs (and significant others if they have them) that they wouldn't have a minute for such ridiculous and sophomoric behavior. I don' think the Hill has changed that much since I worked there a few years ago and, yes, even though it's a proud and historic place to work the fact is:
Capital Hill is the last plantation. Laws that apply to the rest of America literally don't apply on Capital Hill.
-No OHSA regulations apply, I found that out when I smashed my head into a pulled out filing cabinet right over my desk and had to get stitches. No OHSA regulations apply to Hill office overcrowding.
-Privacy regulations don't apply; I found that out when I returned to my office after hours one evening to find a couple agents (CIA?) on the floor with the phone jack disassembled. They were apparently installing bugs in our Senator's office phone lines (he had just brought in an Executive Intern from the CIA so I guess they wanted to follow him closely)
-Certainly sexual harrassment and sex discrimination  regulations don't apply. Without incriminating anyone, I'll only say I witnessed numerous passes, inappropriate comments and other activities that in the real world would spark a law suit. My relatively liberal and liberated Senator boss would regularly, after hearings, make comments like, "Who was that blond in the front row this morning? Ask her to come see me."
--Finally federal employment compensation (minimum wage etc.) guidelines don't apply--Members pay their staff whatever they want to--some staff are even volunteers-- but I know I was underpaid, along with a lot of others, for the legislative staff work I was doing ($15k/year for law school graduates!)
I'd like to see someone contradict these points,(any Hill staff listening?) but otherwise I know in the recent past the Hill was the last plantation, and barring evidence to the contrary, it still is. I believe most informed Washington insiders will agree.


You're kidding, right? (Silence Dogood - 7/25/2007 8:39:58 PM)
Have you forgotten what it's like to be 25 years old???


Gotta love (phriendlyjaime - 7/25/2007 6:18:50 PM)
the Republican girl who showed up in her Redskins uniform while everyone else dressed professionally.  Good, moral family values, eh? 


I'm Going RED (ub40fan - 7/25/2007 10:55:40 PM)
for Sarah Barfield, but assuming she doesn't date guys like me why GIVE ME LIBERTY!!!


Can never go wrong with redheads! (mkfox - 7/25/2007 10:59:53 PM)
I looked at the full list and we need more hot congresswomen!