Posted on 07/13/2006 6:25:07 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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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I hadn't heard anything bad coming from Harris' campaign for over a month now - so I was thinking "Hey, maybe the staff has got her turned around and on message". Well, it appears I guessed wrong.
Increasingly (and unfortunately), it appears as though Bill Nelson has sewed up a second term in the Senate. It's too bad because the GOP really needed that seat too - considering we may lose Burns and/or Santorum.
Opinions or comments - anyone?
One word: megalomaniac. Harris is delusional.
I like Harris, but she's tried to rise too far, too fast in the GOP. We had a woman Senator back in the 80's and she was voted out after one term, in favor of Bob Graham. Florida is wierd when it come to senators. SOme they keep around forever, like Chiles, and some they toss after a term or two.........
Wow. Like many here, I was hoping against hope that Harris would do well and all this personality stuff was simply a minor thing, but increasingly it has become very hard not to conclude that Ms. Harris has too prickly of a personality for public service. That is a shame.
I would much rather have Harris than Nelson, but it ain't gonna happen, so if there is someone else on the primary ballot, I'm voting for him. Either way, I'm voting GOP in Nov., though.
I wish Ms. Harris the best, especially with her upcoming surgery.
But when staff worker after staff worker resigns, I don't think he problem is the staff worker.
There have been more turnovers in this campaign than during a New Orleans Saints football game.
I guess all of those knives to the back from the Family Bush and the GOP establishment have finally bled this campaign to death.
Having Katherine Harris running for the Senate is kind of like Newt Gingrich running for President.
Maybe they both have good ideas, but in a lot of people's eyes they are damaged goods who should stay permanently in the background.
More like self-induced wounds..at least be honest. Seems the Bush family knew things that only her staff members know now.
Yeah. It can't possibly be that Harris is impossible to work with.
In my company, when sales rep after sales rep from the same unit resigns, and gives as the reason the sales manager, the sales manager is soon gone himself.
The Bushes have nothing to do with her prickly personality.
Jeb Bush your phone is ringing.
Come on Jeb. It's all yours. Just say yes.
She's had more staff changes than Van Halen has had lead singers.
5.56mm
Wasn't she just diagnosed with ovarian cancer? That might be part of the equation.
I don't know if she is delusional, but Mrs. Harris sure is the problem with this campaign.
I've worked on a lot of campaigns, and when you have this many staff leaving it points right at the candidate. Simple as that.
Too bad Mr. Nelson gets to walk back into office. He could have been licked with a slightly more than mediocre candidate. Mrs. Harris isn't that candidate. Pity.
It was the people's will that Harriette Not be appointed to the Supreme court and she wasn't.
Harris is a WOMAN , with all the required positive attributes. Women seldom lose.
Women seldom lose.
I hope her surgery went well. But if employees resign on you during your biggest time of need, something is wrong.
If my boss were in the middle of a medical crisis, I wouldn't resign on him, simply out of human kindness.
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