Convention's green leader has history in Hollywood

By David Montero, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)

Published July 23, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.
Updated July 23, 2008 at 12:13 a.m.

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Andrea Robinson may be best known for role in the series 'Doc'.

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The link between greening and Hollywood has never been far apart. So it's not a huge surprise that the Democratic National Convention's first director of greening has a link to Tinseltown.

Andrea Robinson carries a lengthy list of acting credits to her name. Last year, she had a small role on the hit show CSI: Miami.

She also had roles in Doc, The West Wing and Melrose Place, among other roles, from 1995 to 2007.

But the Democratic National Convention Committee never highlighted any of that when she was named director of its green effort.

When initially asked about her acting career, the DNCC said it wasn't relevant. When asked to provide a resume for Robinson, it took the DNCC a month. There was no mention of her acting background - just how she developed recycling programs on the sets of Doc and Sue Thomas F.B.Eye.

And when she was asked about her acting career, Robinson said it was something that was in her past. But when a call was made to the Los Angeles-based Amsel, Eisenstadt & Frazier Talent Agency, it confirmed she is still being represented by the agency.

None of which might have been a problem except when a conservative blog, redstate.com, noted that on the DNCC's biography page for Robinson, it touted her 25 years of environmental experience.

That would mean the DNCC was counting experience from when she was 13.

Robinson holds a bachelor's degree in environmental science. She helped with high-level donors while working for the Sierra Club. And Damon Jones, spokesman for the DNCC, said she had a good reputation based on her past work.

"Andrea was recommended to us by some of the people that worked at Live Earth, who we knew from working with (Al) Gore in the White House," Jones said. "On their recommendation, we met with her and decided she was the best fit for the job."

Staff writer Jerd Smith contributed to this report.

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