Article: Eugene political activist takes on work at Barack Obama's national headquarters.(City/Region)(Dan Carol will be the content and issues director at the senator's campaign offices in Chicago through Election Day)

Byline: David Steves The Register-Guard

Barack Obama found thousands of supporters in Eugene while campaigning here this spring. And he just hired one of them to work in his national campaign headquarters.

Dan Carol, 50, just took a job as the content and issues director. He'll be putting his writing and consulting work on hold for the next five months to work out of the Illinois senator's Chicago campaign headquarters.

Carol said he'll be doing everything from writing position papers to "shoveling coal" and anything else the campaign's established staff wants the new guy to do.

He summed up his new job description as "taking stuff ...

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