Katherine Harris's Campaign Staff To Resign (Again)

[LiviaOlivia]

July 12, 2006
Katherine Harris's Campaign Staff To Resign
Hotline On Call-National Journal

The high command of Rep. Katherine Harris's FL Senate bid plans to resign by the end of the week, two people familiar with the campaign tell the Hotline.

The departing staff includes Glen Hodas, Harris's campaign manager, her spokesperson, Chris Ingram, and Pat Thomas, her field director. The status of Harris's chief fundraiser, Erin Delullo, is not clear.

The resignations will take effect by Friday, according to the sources. TooConservative, a Virginia-based blog, first reported this afternoon that several staffers would quit.

One person involved in the campaign said there was no single precipitating factor. "She's just very difficult to work with. It's all the same stuff. The more than we put her out there, the more she shot herself in the foot," this person said.

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http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/07/harris_staff_to.html

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Harris Loses Top Campaign Staff -- Again
By Justin Rood - July 12, 2006, 9:48 PM
Tpmmuckraker.com

Top aides to Rep. Katherine Harris' (R-FL) Senate campaign are heading for the exit, the Hotline On Call reports.

"The departing staff includes Glen Hodas, Harris's campaign manager, her spokesperson, Chris Ingram, and Pat Thomas, her field director. The status of Harris's chief fundraiser, Erin Delullo, is not clear," the blog says.

Harris is trailing her Democratic challenger by 33 points, according to a recent Quinnipiac University poll.

If you recall, in April Harris lost "her chief political strategist, her campaign manager, her spokeswoman, her director of field operations and even a traveling aide who helps hand out stickers at campaign appearances," as the Orlando Sentinel reported the first exodus.

After the first wave of defections, Harris instituted a "loyalty oath" policy ...

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http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001116.php

[Old and In the Way]

1. What a joke. She can't run an election campaign....think she can

be an effective Senator?

[MadMaddie]

2. Let her keep running....she providing more damage to the Repugs

every day she stays on the ticket...:popcorn:

[radfringe]

3. I love the smell of

burnt toast in the morning, it smells like, well, it smells like burnt toast

and she's stubborn enough to keep toasting herself.... at this rate an implosion is in the near future

[Bucky]

4. One measure of her irrelevance when a Harris thread can't get more DUers

to respond each time she does something a little more pathetic. Normally we just pile on with a Katherine Harris thread. By now she's become so tiresome, so pathetically pointless, that we don't even bother with the usual schaudefreude jubilee with her latest fuck ups. Have we really lost the ability to kick a dog when she's down? Are we slipping back into a sense of decency? For SHAME!!

[rodeodance]

5. you would think she would get the hint!

[ozymandius]

6. This is becoming a Saturday Night Live skit.

Like musical chairs with a crazy person at the record player.

[Vidar]

7. Hang in there, Katherine!

[Richard Steele]

8. Really makes you wonder how she "won" an election before, dunnit? nm

[Bake]

9. But what about the Twins?????

What will she tell Moxie and Spunk?

Bake

[StaggerLee]

10. !

:rofl:

[Bake]

11. No Katherine Harris thread is complete

Without mention of the Twins!

Bake

[samsingh]

12. this is sooo cool

[Moderator]

13. k

[ryban]

14. AP: Deja vu for Harris: Key Senate campaign staff leaves

Deja vu for Harris: Key Senate campaign staff leaves


By BRENDAN FARRINGTON
AP Political Writer

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Katherine Harris' Senate campaign staff is leaving again, and the description of working for the Republican congresswoman plays like a scene out of "Mommie Dearest."

Harris is prone to tantrums, wants to be treated like a princess, micromanages, fixates on minutia while ignoring the big picture, and sometimes does exactly opposite of what advisers tell her with bad results that they have to clean up later, staff members said.

It's a story that's been told before. When her first campaign staff left in April, the same description of Harris was given by those who quit the effort to unseat Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson.

"That's exactly like what happened," said Ed Rollins, a strategist that left the campaign in April "Everything is someone else's fault. If there's not a Starbucks coffee house within distance, it's someone else's fault."

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http://www.jacksonville.com/apnews/stories/071306/D8IRAT488.shtml

[grannylib]

15. And the LIES...did you see Countdown tonight? KO said that she had claimed

to have passed a bill that allows low-income folks to own a home, and her claim was that 4,000,000 people had taken advantage of that. Truth is, 13,000 was the actual number. As Keith says, she ain't exactly good at countin' stuff...

[mconvente]

16. yeah, like counting Al Gore's REAL votes... n/t

[vixengrl]

17. Because the Buddha and the Christ both counsel compassion

I will honor the divine within her humanity, and acknowledge her capacity for suffering. Then I and Eris will laugh our asses off at her capacity for discord, and acknowledge that if she cannot handle a campaign, she definitely does not need more responsibility. She is just about responsible for herself.