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  2. Jen Psaki and husband Gregory Mecher's love story started with politics. Psaki, the former White House Press Secretary and host of MSNBC’s Inside with Jen Psaki, and Mecher, a political aide,...

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    Psaki credits her husband's family and Delhi upbringing for his successful, behind-the-scenes career in Washington, D.C. It's also what drew her to him. “He is so comfortable in his own skin with who he is,” Psaki said. “He could be in a room with 5-year-old kids, he could be in a room with billionaires, he could be in a room on a factory floor and...

    Mecher’s journey to the center of the nation’s politics began with a nail-biter of an election in 1998. That year, Mecher, in his final year of college as a communications/television production major at Northern Kentucky University, won election as student government president by three votes. It was the only time he ran for office. Mecher's affable...

    The late NKU Board of Regents member and philanthropist Alice Sparks noticed something in the 22-year-old communications major. She recommended him for an internship with Democratic U.S. Rep. Ken Lucas after he graduated. His parents drove him to Washington, D.C. in 1999. His new home was a rented room. He's remained in Washington ever since. His i...

    Seven years after that pivotal softball game, in 2006, he met a fellow Democratic staffer, Jen Psaki. Rahm Emanuel, former Chicago mayor and President Barack Obama’s White House chief of staff, takes credit for introducing them, Mecher said, but that's only slightly true. Though Emanuel was there when they first met in Philadelphia. No, it was bad ...

    He's met Obama and Biden, but usually as the plus-one with his wife. He described Obama as an "incredibly talented human being and orator" and Biden as an authentic and down-to-earth guy who "values family over anything." When Mecher wants to explain Biden, he looks back to a cookout in 2016. Biden was vice president at the time. It was the Biden B...

    Politics isn't all squirt gun fights, though. His wife is now the face of the White House, and the target of all the praise and criticism that comes with that. When the opportunity came for his wife to be press secretary, Mecher was all in, Psaki said. “He was the first to say, of course, you should have the conversation, of course, you should go f...

    Mecher, himself, has taken a step back from some of it. He's working as a consultant and raising his two children. Looking back on his two decades in Washington, he said the biggest change in politics is the inability of the two parties to work together. House districts aren't competitive in general elections so members only play to the extreme sid...

  3. Apr 2, 2022 · Jen Psaki Married Greg Mecher In 2006. Psaki and Mecher first met while working at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee together in 2006. Psaki was hired in the communications department while Mecher was a deputy finance director. The pair’s first interaction was over the phone.

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  4. Greg Mecher and Jen Psaki met at work. The pair both had gigs with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in the mid-2000s, and Psaki’s desk was only about 20 feet from Mecher’s.

  5. Mar 10, 2022 · Asher. Mar 10, 2022. Jen Psaki, the current White House press secretary, has been married to Greg Mecher, then chief of staff to Congressman Steve Driehaus, for more than a decade. The couple first met at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2006.

  6. Mar 19, 2023 · POWER COUPLE. Who is Jen Psaki’s husband, Gregory Mecher? Lottie Tiplady-Bishop. Jennifer Roback. Tereza Shkurtaj. Published: 18:10, 19 Mar 2023. Updated: 18:22, 19 Mar 2023. JEN Psaki is an...

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