Posted on 03/18/2015 11:26:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
An aide to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's (R) likely presidential campaign resigned late Tuesday night just a day after her hire was announced.
Liz Mair, who was a digital strategist for Walker, came under a storm of criticism for her advocacy for some relatively liberal policy positions and colorful tweets that critics claimed were insulting to Iowans.
"In other news, I see Iowa is once again embarrassing itself, and the GOP, this morning. Thanks, guys," Mair wrote about a January event hosted by conservative Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), according to the Associated Press. "The sooner we remove Iowa's front-running status, the better off American politics and policy will be."
Some conservatives were not pleased with her hire. The chairman of the Iowa Republican Party, Jeff Kaufmann, called on Walker to dismiss Mair and the right-leaning site Breitbart News ran a sharply critical story about her support for immigration "amnesty."(continued)
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Even though she is probably right about the fact that Iowa should not be the “lead dog” for the GOP presidential race, she needs to be canned for tweeting it out there. The truth is not a defense in this instance.
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Mair Strategies is a boutique communications and public relations firm, with specialties in online, political, and crisis communications, as well as opposition research formulation and seeding.
Founded in June 2011 by former Republican National Committee Online Communications Director Liz Mair, the firm has advised multiple Fortune 500, FTSE 100 and other publicly-traded corporate clients, as well as numerous large trade associations and prominent political campaigns for national and state office on communications in the US, the UK and the EU.
Walker has done an outstanding job. Only Reagan comes anywhere close. So a little miss here and there is no biggie. And most likely
Agree. So far I’m very impressed.
She worked on Gov Walker’s 2012 election, she was known.
The Iowa comments were done after his reelection.
She was a known quantity. She worked with previous campaigns for Walker.
1) The Pat Benatar haircut looked a lot better on Pat Benatar.
2) Other pictures reveal not much of a rack. She's not a troll, but ...
😃
Having said that, I support Walker, as well as my first choice Ted Cruz and any other non-squish.
Got concert tix for my b-day.
They still ROCK IT OUT !
But there were two dykes sitting next to me making out and one spilled her coke on me and ruined my monocular!
Exactly... I like walker, but someone like this, should have never gotten the job to begin with... hopefully its a lesson learned before the presidential running begins in earnest.
Yep. Pat and Neil are real musicians.
Walker’s team has been infiltrated.
I hope he figures it out.
Beware the Ides of Walkerbots.
the same insiders who hired Palin’s “handlers” because they hated anything not insider?
She was a beltway disease plant.
Hit me with your best shot.
Walker gets moved to the right again, this time on his Iowa hire.
Don’t get me wrong, as some on this site have done. He’s a decent candidate. But Walker is not ready for prime time.
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