By Greg Hazley
Kurt Bardella, who was fired as press secretary to Rep. Darrell Issa in March after sharing emails from reporters with the New York Times, has landed at the Daily Caller as director of communications.
He takes over for his replacement in Issa's office, Becca Glover Watkins, who was spokeswoman for the Caller before moving to the congressman's office in early March.
The news and aggregation website was founded by pundit Tucker Carlson.
Carlson said in announcing the hire that Bardella would help promote the site, its reporters and bloggers to the Hill and media outlets. He'll also pitch in for tech projects "in the pipeline."
Bardella was fired by the powerful California Republican Issa after Politico's editor John Harris raised concern with the congressman that Bardella had shared emails from Politco reporters with Times reporter March Leibovich for a book project.
Issa fired Bardella a few days after saying he would investigate the claim. "Though limited, these actions were highly inappropriate, a basic breach of trust," Issa said in dismissing the press secretary.
Bardella was press secretary for Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Me.) before joining Issa in January 2009. He previously worked in PR at San Diego-based Benedetto and Danon PR.
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