Sunday, April 02, 2006

Katherine Harris

Katherine Harris gave her staff until 5:00PM today to decide if they wanted to continue on with her campaign, and decide they did. All of the remaining senior staff members have resigned. From the Orlando Sentinel:

"These changes have been part a thoughtful process at the highest strategic levels of my campaign. We are stronger as a campaign today than we were yesterday."

Former campaign manager Jim Dornan, who resigned in November, disagreed with the assessment.

"She had the best people in the country," he said. "She can't get any better than that. This is a campaign that is spiraling downward by the minute, and the smartest thing for her to do would be to get out of the race."

"Katherine's trying to run it and a candidate can't run her own campaign. It's foolish for her to try," Dornan said.

Among those resigning from the campaign were Ed Rollins, a political adviser to President Reagan and others; campaign manager Jamie Miller, who replaced Dornan; and press secretary Morgan Dobbs.

My understanding of the problems facing the Harris campaign is that she simply would not listen to any of her advisers, instead favoring the views put forward by her loony spiritual adviser Dale Burroughs. That's not gonna change when these people are replaced.

It's a shame there isn't a little more "Dr. Dale" to go around.

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