request it. She has a relationship with another female staffer (Cindy) on the Santos campaign. Edie Ortega (Diana-Maria Riva): Santos-McGarry Deputy Campaign Manager for Strategic Planning (Season 7). Lester (Cress Williams): Santos-McGarry Campaign Consultant (Season 7). Bram Howard (Matthew Del Negro): Staffer, Santos-McGarry Campaign (Seasons 6–7); Santos Administration counselor to the President (Season 7). Moves into Charlie Young's former office on Inauguration Day. Ned Carlson (Evan Arnold): A day-one aide to Congressman Santos (Season 6); Staffer, Santos-McGarry Campaign (Seasons 6–7). He is removed from the campaign and reassigned to Santos's Congressional office early in Season 7 after Lou considers that he is out of his depth. Otto (Ramon De Ocampo): Speechwriter, Santos-McGarry Campaign (Season 7); Staffer in the Santos Administration (Season 7). Very young but capable man who has a campaign fling with Lou Thornton. It is implied he will have a speechwriting role in the Santos Administration. Vinick campaign Sheila Brooks (Patricia Richardson): Senator Vinick's chief of staff and Vinick-Sullivan campaign manager; She, like Vinick, is portrayed as level-headed and not overtly partisan. Often at odds with the more conservative voices in the party, she leaves the campaign weeks before election day to placate the Republican base (Season 6–7). In her final appearance, Brooks is mentioned as possibly being hired as Chief of Staff to the Republican Senate Majority Leader. Having renewed her friendship with Vinick, she makes an argument that convinces the Senator that he should not run for president again—and that he should accept President-elect Santos' offer to become the next Secretary of State. Jane Braun (Melinda McGraw): Vinick-Sullivan campaign manager after Brooks' resignation (Season 7); A far to the right conservative activist who replaces Sheila in order to energize hard-core GOP voters. However, she disgusts the rest of the campaign leadership by attempting to make an election night issue of Leo McGarry's death. Her outspoken partisanship puts her at odds with Vinick, Sheila, and Bruno Gianelli. Bruno Gianelli (Ron Silver): (See above). Bob Mayer (Stephen Root): Vinick-Sullivan speechwriter (Season 6–7). Frequently mocked for his messy eating habits but extremely smart and effective (and, like Vinick and Sheila Brooks, level-headed in his conservatism), Mayer becomes fast friends with Gianelli. On election night, the two briefly discuss forming a consulting firm when Mayer firmly declares he is never going to become involved in daily governance, but Gianelli politely declines because the campaign life has worn him down and