Katherine Harris's Campaign Staff To Resign

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July 12, 2006

Katherine Harris's Campaign Staff To Resign

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.

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This slate of staff lasted just three and a half months; in April, Harris lost her campaign manager, Jamie Miller, and strategist Ed Rollins. Both have since become outspoken critics of Harris's.

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Update: Harris's office just sent out this e-mail:

(Tampa, Fla.) -- Katherine Harris announced today she has accepted the resignation of her communications director Chris Ingram from her U.S. Senate campaign. My campaign appreciates the effort and energy Chris brought to the job. He served in an important role in my campaign and he did a great job, and I wish him well,” said Harris. “I wish Katherine and the campaign well, and look forward to returning to managing my company, 411 Communications,” Ingram said. Contrary to earlier reports, Harris has only accepted the resignation of Chris Ingram. On Monday, Katherine Harris undergoes surgery for a previously described medical condition. “I look forward to returning to the campaign trail swiftly following my medical procedure,” said Harris.

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

[FrenchieCat]

1. I'd be running away too!

:rofl:

[SharonRB]

2. A brain transplant?

Just sayin'.

[Lost-in-FL]

3. Medical procedure?

A lobotomy? :rofl:

[SharonRB]

4. GMTA

Close enough.

:rofl:

[koopie57]

11. I'm hoping for bigger boobies nt

[Lost-in-FL]

13. .

:puke: :puke:

[Chipper Chat]

5. Harris is a metaphor for the Republican Party.

Hello America - wake up. Cant you see that it is imperative we put the Democrats back in power!

[C_U_L8R]

6. Again ???

This is like republican groundhog day....
Harris is the mascara'd gift that keeps on giving

Wooohooooo

[Synnical]

9. I owe you a beer!

:toast:

[Olney Blue]

7. "She's difficult to work with"

also from the article:

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.

[Synnical]

8. Again?

From Wonkette:

http://www.wonkette.com/politics/katherine-harris/today-in-katherine-harris-everyone-quit-again-probably-186902.php

Today in Katherine Harris: Everyone Quit, Again. Probably.

It would almost be beyond the pale to mock Katherine Harris now, when she’s about to go in for surgery to remove a (probably benign) ovarian mass. So let’s get to it.

Item the first: Katherine, speaking before yet another group of old republicans, said yet more crazy things. We like:

“We don’t talk enough about the Canadian border,” Harris said in Port St. Lucie. “They’ve got signs written in Arabic up there. The bleeding in America is our borders.”

It’s almost subtly crazy — it sneaks up on you. It’s nice that Katy’s switching it up a bit. She’s found a whole new country to make things up about! The accompanying photo makes this brief article a keeper.



Next up: Well, we can’t actually blame Harris for this one. A group of six marijuana enthusiasts protested outside Harris’ offices. They’d intended to protest Harris vote against medicinal marijuana, but then they all got really baked and decided getting signs with her name on it would be too much work. Seriously.

Meanwhile: A blog we’ve never heard of is reporting that Harris’ campaign manager and five “senior staff officials” are going to quit on Friday. Interesting totally predictable if true.

UPDATE: WE WERE RIGHT. Irresponsible speculation wins AGAIN.

[tanyev]

17. Signs in Arabic??????

OMG!!!!! I'd better get rid of some of the food products in my pantry. Terra-ist writing!!! Aaaaaagghh!!!!!

[tinfoilinfor2005]

10. Hmm, maybe I'll apply for a job. Appears she's gone through

everyone else in the state. I'll take a hunk of those millions she's doling out for her impossible dream. And I sure wouldn't give a shit how difficult missy is because I would just spend every minute of the day laughing at her. :)

[cboy4]

12. They prally just wanna spend, you know, more time with their

families. :eyes:

[Sadie5]

14. Before Katherine gets too dingy

that she writes a TELL ALL book about the 2000 presidential theft and of her affair with Jebby Bush. It's for sure that Bush has dropped her like a hot potato.

[Demeter]

15. Again?

She goes through staff like Kleenex.

[Ikonoklast]

16. Is she taking 'Spunk' and 'Moxie' in for a tune up?

Glad that she has lots of dough and good medical insurance.

I would be worried if I were her about waking up from anesthesia, though. Hope her surgeon is a Dem.
Bush's embarrassments seem to be dropping like flies, lately.

[rurallib]

21. Heard Spunk and Moxie have threatened to leave also

Unless she quits shoving them in people's faces.

[Hippo_Tron]

18. Jumping off the Titanic because they know it will sink

Or are we using the Hindenburg metaphor for this one?

[msongs]

19. be a HERO and SPILL THE BEANS on FL and 2000!!!! I will

salute you and buy you a near beer :-)

Msongs
www.msongs.com/6for2008.htm

[madfloridian]

20. Her opponent Will McBride is rumored supported by Karl Rove.

He has big ties to the fundamentalist community. Here is an article about him. At first I thought Leroy Collins, Jr. would be the one to worry about...his father was a wonderful Democratic governor of the 50s. Son became a Republican, but is a pretty moderate one.

But now I think Will McBride is the one to worry about.

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060606/NEWS/606060347/1004

"McBride, a Tampa native, is the son of the Rev. Willie McBride, a minister and two-time Golden Glove winner as an amateur boxer. The elder McBride was a Spanish-language pastor at Hillsdale Baptist Church in Tampa, where Stargel grew up.

Will McBride filed for the Senate race last month on the final day of qualifying amid rumors his entry had been brokered by presidential adviser Karl Rove. He would not comment on reports that he promised to spend $5 million of his own money on his campaign or that Rove had asked him to run.

"The press has overreported this issue. We know Karl Rove. No, he did not personally ask me to run," McBride said.

Rove is a friend of Stuart Epperson, the father of McBride's wife, Kristy. Epperson is one of the founders and the chairman of Salem Communications, the nation's largest Christian radio broadcasting network."

My very religious Florida legislator, John Stargel, who says abortion is murder and gays need to make a choice of lifestyle...and whose office delivers sermons when you call the office..just dropped his Harris endorsement and endorsed McBride.

[madfloridian]

22. Kick. Take this guy McBride very seriously.

Bill Nelson gets a lot of support from Republicans. McBride could pull off many who would not vote for Harris, but would vote for him with his strong party and religious connections.