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The positions will become official once Clinton announces her candidacy, expected this month.

Finney is a longtime member of Hillaryland, having served as Deputy Press Secretary to Clinton when she was First Lady, after working on Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign. Finney was a traveling press secretary on Hillary Clinton's 2000 senate campaign and Communications Director at the Democratic National Committee from 2005-2009. As a contributor and host on MSNBC Finney became a prominent Democratic voice in politics, most recently appearing on CNN as a Democratic strategist.

Shur will oversee television, mail, radio and digital advertising. He served as Director of the Democratic Governors Association independent expenditures in 2014 cycle and managed Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon's successful 2012 re-election campaign.

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Clinton is due for a reset with the press. Her 2008 campaign was notoriously combative with reporters. She was more at ease with the press corps that covered her while she was Secretary of State, but she's treated reporters with suspicion since her years as First Lady, where attention to controversies often left Clinton feeling assaulted by the media.

"My relationship with the press has been at times, shall we say, complicated," Clinton acknowledged last month as she gave the keynote address at a gala honoring political reporting.

"I'm all about new beginnings," she added, "A new grandchild, a new hairstyle, a new email account, a new relationship with the press."

Clinton's 2016 communications staff selections reflect an effort at a reset. Finney will join a roster of staff who have congenial relationships with reporters, led by Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri, who most recently served in the same role in the Obama White House, and joined by lead spokesman Brian Fallon, and spokesman Jesse Ferguson, who is expected to handle daily communications with the press.

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CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misstated which year Clinton had hired her campaign staff.

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Hillary Clinton isn't likely to have even a semi-serious primary challenge. That much we know.

But, her expected coronation hasn't stopped a few Democrats from offering some less-than-positive thoughts about her and her candidacy. Here's the five meanest, ranked from least mean to most mean.

5. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.)

"She is the leading candidate, whether it be Republican or Democrat, to be the next president and I think that she needs to step up and come out and state exactly what the situation is." - on NBC's "Meet the Press" March 8

How mean, really?Feinstein was critical of Clinton's handling of her e-mail controversy, but not exactly mean.

4. Sen. Harry Reid (Nev.)

"How can ... Jeb get away from [President George W. Bush's record]? I'll take Clinton baggage over that any day." - in an interview with theNew York Timespublished April 2

How mean, really?Coming from someone like Reid, it's basicallya compliment --albeit a back-handed one. It's notthe best thing to say about the presumed nominee of your party, but hey, who in national politics doesn't have baggage after more than two decades?

3. David Axelrod

"What happened in 2008 was that Hillary's candidacy got out in front of any rationale for it, and the danger is that that's happening again. You hear 'Ready for Hillary.' It's like, ready for what? Now Hillary's task is to define what it is that she's running for and running about, and what would the future look like under another President Clinton, and I suspect that's what she's taking her time working through now, but she has to answer that question." - on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" December 16

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Decision time for GOP operatives, another controversial foreign policy choice for President Obama, a ripple effect from the Robert Menendez indictment, and two insights into Hillary Clinton's campaign launch -- those stories filled our Sunday trip around the "Inside Politics" table.

1. First a deal with Iran, now hug a Castro?

Obama's Iran diplomacy already has his conservative critics fired up, and things could get even more interesting in the week ahead.

The President is headed to Panama for a regional summit, and Julie Pace of The Associated Press reports one of the big questions is whether he'll make history and have a face-to-face meeting with Cuban leader Raul Castro.

"This would be the first meeting between a U.S. and a Cuban leader in decades," said Pace.

"But Obama's efforts to end this freeze of Cuba have been a lot more difficult than they looked when he announced it last year," Pace said. "And so what the White House is going to be weighing is whether this meeting would be a way to generate more progress or whether it would be a premature reward for the Castros."

2. HRC launch, take one: more biography

Hillary Clinton has leased her headquarters space in Brooklyn and will soon make her presidential campaign official.

And with the launch, Jonathan Martin of The New York Times reports, will come a carefully orchestrated effort to reintroduce Clinton -- with an emphasis on her childhood and her earlier work on children's issues.

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