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May 29, 2003

Area woman makes good

Nicolle Devenish, the former Californian who’s been working in the White House regional press operation, will begin a new gig Monday as the communications director for President Bush’s reelection committee. Devenish cut her teeth in the state capitol as a press aide to then-Assembly Republican Leader Bill Leonard and worked briefly on Dan Lungren’s 1998 gubernatorial campaign. She was a casualty of that year's Republican debacle in California but landed on her feet, to say the least, becoming press secretary to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Devenish was working for Jeb when all hell broke loose in Florida during the November, 2000 vote count, and soon was spinning for W in front of the press mobs that converged in Dade County. She’s been in the White House ever since.