Posted on 04/28/2016 7:18:14 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Tim Clark was asked if he was interested in running Donald Trump's campaign in California earlier this month. "Interested?" he recalls telling an emissary for the Republican frontrunner. "You bet I'm interested. I'm about to fall out of my chair."
Clark could have been forgiven for assuming the job of Trump's state director in California, the most delegate-rich primary contest, and the one likely to determine the outcome of the 2016 Republican race, would involve being thrust into the billionaire's inner circle.
Yet more than two weeks into the role, Clark has still not met with Trump or even spoken with him on the phone. "I haven't talked to him," he conceded, when pressed over the extent of his communications with the Republican frontrunner. "There's been, you know, email traffic and things like that."
The fact Trump has yet to talk to the strategist in command of the all-important California primary contest may say more about the frontrunner's centralized presidential campaign than it does about Clark.
On the other hand, it turns out Clark was not an uncontroversial pick.
Stuart Jolly, who until recently was Trump's national field director, said he considered Clark for the role but decided he was unqualified.
"I had already ruled him out," he said.
Jolly said he was overruled by a more senior campaign operative, but maintains that Clark's selection over another contender in California was "almost laughable".
Others, including some of the most prominent figures in California Republican politics, maintain that Clark is more than capable of running Trump's operations in the state, even if he currently finds himself on the margins.
Either way, the inside story of how Clark got the job sheds new light on the internal power struggle that has rocked the Trump campaign in recent weeks.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Trump will be in California for a Rally tonight.
Saying you would be interested is NOT the same as being offerred and accepting the position
This dumbell just put himself out of the running, if he wasn’t already...
Really wrong to think in terms of anything internal in Trump’s campaign as a “tug of war”. It’s actually stupid because you don’t get to this;
http://www.trump.com/real-estate-portfolio/
http://www.trump.com/hotel-collection/
http://www.trump.com/golf/
and signing 22k paychecks on the FRONT if you can’t lead people. This campaign has far less than 22k involved. Trump’s the boss and knows how to build a team that can get things done. His team is getting it done.
So is this a fight between Jolly and Manafirt?
What I was thinking; kind of a blabber mouth, someone you don’t need on your team
“Saying you would be interested is NOT the same as being offerred and accepting the position”
Read the article. The guy was hired several weeks ago.
The first person they approached about the job to is a #NeverTrump guy.
My brother ran his own company with about 65 employees.
He always said that NOT ONE PERSON IN 1000 WAS CAPABLE OF SIGNING THE FRONT OF A PAYCHECK.
I have corrected him recently-—it is now more like ONE in 10,000.
Trump is more than capable of running this country——more like a real BUSINESS instead of a constant outflow of money which is stolen from taxpayers. I hope he decides that at least 50% of Federal employees are deadweight & cans them. Let them try to find work in the PRIVATE sector & prove to anyone how important they really are.
There are a lot of shallow thinkers out there that don’t understand that. What makes it even more weird is they think they are so right about their opinions.
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