A former Edwards staffer has joined the White House staff.

Christina Reynolds, who served as research director and senior communications adviser for former Sen. John Edwards' 2008 presidential campaign, will become director of media affairs for President Obama.

A graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, Reynolds worked on South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson's 2002 re-election campaign, served as communications director for former South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle's 2004 campaign and served as research director for Edwards in 2004.

She has also worked for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and as director of rapid response for the Obama campaign.

Previously: Former Edwards staffers doing well in D.C.

Hat Tip: Mike Doyle 

Dome has to wonder whether the entertainment website TMZ is struggling for news today.

Their top story this morning showed Sen. Richard Burr driving his own car (Gasp!) on Capitol Hill, Barb Barrett reports.

Their typically snarky headline: Senator's Thing Exposed in Snowstorm.

The notion of a senator driving his own car even pushed a shirtless Tom Cruise into the No. 2 position on the website. The video appears to be tied to former Sen. Tom Daschle's recent trouble with a driving service.

A lot of senators have aides to tote them around Washington, but Burr likes to drive his 1974 Volkswagen Thing convertible. The aging vehicle can usually be seen parked outside his office building on Capitol Hill, top down.

Yesterday, TMZ captured video of Burr driving in the snow. He had the top down again.

Another Tar Heel has joined the Obama administration.

According to an item by the Washington Post's Al Kamen, a native North Carolinian will soon help shepherd Barack Obama's health care plan:

Former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, now tasked with overhauling the nation's health-care system and the Department of Health and Human Services, will be able to count on former aide Mark Childress to help him. Childress is to be his chief of staff and also deputy director of the new White House Office of Health Reform. Childress had been Daschle's chief counsel and policy director when he was in the Senate.

Childress, a native of Asheville, was a Morehead scholar at UNC-Chapel Hill's law school and still has family in North Carolina.