Interior spokesman joins Obama campaign

Interior Department press secretary Adam Fetcher is joining President Obama’s reelection campaign as a deputy national press secretary.

Fetcher will enter the political fray with plenty of seasoning after parrying near-daily GOP attacks against Interior Department energy policies.

Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP White House nominee, has made criticism of White House energy policies a staple of his stump speeches, so Fetcher’s background will likely be put to use in coming weeks and months.

Just prior to his yearlong gig at Interior, Fetcher spent a couple of years in the press office of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The graduate of Minnesota’s Carleton College joined Obama’s 2008 campaign in Florida and then worked on the Obama-Biden transition team before heading to DHS.

It’s not clear who will replace Fetcher as press secretary.

The department’s PR shop recently added new blood by bringing on Blake Androff, who spent years on Capitol Hill as a top committee spokesman for Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) when he was chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee and later the ranking Democrat on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

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