Murray’s press secretary reassigned

Bill Lucia Jul 11, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h2><p>Mayor Ed Murray has reassigned press secretary Rosalind Brazel. She'll be heading to the city’s Personnel Department. Why? Perhaps because Hizzoner's media shop made at least two embarrassing gaffes in recent months. In late February, Murray's office issued a statement mourning the loss</p></h2>
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            <p><br>Mayor Ed Murray has reassigned press secretary Rosalind Brazel. She'll be heading to the city’s Personnel Department. Why? Perhaps because Hizzoner's media shop made at least two embarrassing gaffes in recent months. In late February, Murray's office issued a statement mourning the loss of former Seattle Department of Neighborhoods Director Jim Diers. Diers, however, wasn’t dead. Then in late January, Brazel forwarded reporters a pair of draft statements about the state Senate’s passage of the DREAM Act. The email was meant for communications director Jeff Reading and included a note saying, “two statements below. One more straight forward, one with a ‘tisk tisk’ feel.” Department of Information Technology public information officer, Megan Coppersmith, takes over the press secretary post on an interim basis. In her new Personnel job, Brazel will develop “a strategy for regular communications with City employees on behalf of Personnel and the Mayor’s Office.”</p>
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Mayor Ed Murray has reassigned press secretary Rosalind Brazel. She'll be heading to the city’s Personnel Department. Why? Perhaps because Hizzoner's media shop made at least two embarrassing gaffes in recent months. In late February, Murray's office issued a statement mourning the loss of former Seattle Department of Neighborhoods Director Jim Diers. Diers, however, wasn’t dead. Then in late January, Brazel forwarded reporters a pair of draft statements about the state Senate’s passage of the DREAM Act. The email was meant for communications director Jeff Reading and included a note saying, “two statements below. One more straight forward, one with a ‘tisk tisk’ feel.” Department of Information Technology public information officer, Megan Coppersmith, takes over the press secretary post on an interim basis. In her new Personnel job, Brazel will develop “a strategy for regular communications with City employees on behalf of Personnel and the Mayor’s Office.”

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By Bill Lucia

Bill Lucia writes about Seattle City Hall and politics for Crosscut. He can be reached at bill.lucia@crosscut.com and you can follow him on Twitter @bill_lucia.