Attorney General George Jepsen Draws Prime Spot at D.C. Press Conference

Attorney General George Jepsen, at center, wins the luck of the draw. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

If Richard Blumenthal was still Connecticut’s attorney general, you would have expected to see him square in the eye of television camera Thursday, as U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced a historic foreclosure settlement with five big banks Thursday in Washington.

But George Jepsen? He’s a little lower key.

Still, there Jepsen was, right behind Holder on the dais, as the television cameras rolled at the nationally-televised event, just a couple people down from President Obama.

Jepsen said afterwards there was no jockeying for position, and there were no assigned spots. All the lining up was done  in a staging area.

“I got that spot from luck,” Jepsen said.

Read more about Thursday’s announcement here.