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[Fred]Thompson taps Harris for spokesman role
Yahoo! News ^ | August 29, 2007 | Ron Fournier

Posted on 08/29/2007 8:19:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Republican Fred Thompson, hoping to solidify his ever-changing inner circle for a Republican presidential bid, has named strategist Todd Harris to head his communications department.

Harris, a former aide to Sen. John McCain and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, will replace Linda Rozett who left the fledgling campaign operation earlier this week, according to a Thompson aide who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Harris served as deputy communications director to McCain during the Arizona senator's 2000 presidential race.

He was communications director to then-Gov. Jeb Bush for the 2002 gubernatorial campaign in Florida.

Harris worked for Schwarzenegger from 2003 to 2005. He is currently a consultant in Washington.

Thompson, an all-but-declared candidate, sidelined his campaign-manager-in-waiting, Tom Collamore, and watched a few other aides follow him out the door amid consternation inside the operation about the active role of Thompson's wife, Jeri.

He is expected to formally launch his candidacy shortly after Labor Day.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: electionpresident; elections; fredthompson; gop; toddharris
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Communications means public relations or flacking to the press. He will have little or nothing to do with Fred Thompson’s stand on the issues, anotherwords he’s a technician. Who cares what campaigns he has worked on before as a flack? If this were the campaign manager or a political advisor, I’d join you in banging my head, but it’s not!


21 posted on 08/29/2007 9:43:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum)
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To: ansel12

22 posted on 08/29/2007 9:51:49 PM PDT by Doe Eyes
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To: Doe Eyes

Ohhh, Yahhh


23 posted on 08/29/2007 9:54:00 PM PDT by ansel12 (Paranoia, conspiracy, superiority, otherness, pod people "The Invasion" 2007 imdb)
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To: HarleyLady27
I wish you had not said that . A good man , like Donald Segretti , could run with that one .
24 posted on 08/29/2007 9:59:52 PM PDT by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it , freedom has a flavor the protected will never know. F Troop)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Please, please make it stop. That still gives me nightmares.


26 posted on 08/29/2007 11:40:06 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: Politicalmom
Bump! IT'S FRED TIME!!

http://Vets4Fred.net It's time for Vets to sign up!

http://FredForPresident.com

27 posted on 08/30/2007 2:46:36 AM PDT by W04Man (I'm Now With Fred http://Vets4Fred.net)
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To: elizabetty

So you’d prefer a campaign manager who was hesitant, reluctant to make changes even if circumstances demanded them, somebody who’ll just “go along to get along” and keep a staffer in place even though the manager is uncomfortable with that staffer.

Have you ever competed for a position or for that matter, run a business? Managed pople?


28 posted on 08/30/2007 3:43:28 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (PUT AMERICA AHEAD! VOTE FOR FRED!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ron Fournier.....laughable.


29 posted on 08/30/2007 3:47:04 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (PUT AMERICA AHEAD! VOTE FOR FRED!!)
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To: NonValueAdded
Oh, thank goodness ... I was thinking Katherine Harris when I saw the headline

That'd still be better than my first thought -- Bev Harris.

30 posted on 08/30/2007 5:02:13 AM PDT by kevkrom (The religion of global warming: "There is no goddess but Gaia and Al Gore is her profit.")
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Yeah, those were the days.
31 posted on 08/30/2007 5:24:18 AM PDT by Joe Brower (Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Republican Fred Thompson, hoping to solidify his ever-changing inner circle for a Republican presidential bid, has named strategist Todd Harris to head his communications department.

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From the DC Navigators site:

Todd Harris Principal

Todd Harris is a principal of Navigators.

Mr. Harris counsels clients on media relations, communications and message strategy from Navigators' Washington, DC and Tallahassee, Florida offices.

Harris is one of the nation's preeminent communications consultants. Roll Call called him a spinner extraordinaire in the world of political communication, while The New Republic dubbed him a press guru. He has served as a senior communications strategist for some of the nations most prominent elected officials, including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. John McCain.

Harris served as communications director and spokesman on Florida Governor Jeb Bush's victorious reelection campaign in 2002, during which Florida Today wrote, The man managing Gov. Jeb Bush's image in Florida and nationwide handles media coverage like a combat sport..

More recently, Harris has served as a senior communications strategist for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and was co-communications director on Schwarzenegger's historic victorious 2003 gubernatorial campaign.

Harris has done extensive political communications training and consulting in several nations including Croatia, Cambodia, Bulgaria, Serbia, the Former Soviet Republic of Georgia, and the Democratic Republic of East Timor.

In 2000, he was the traveling press secretary and spokesman on Senator John McCain's campaign for the White House.

Harris has handled communications duties for a variety of other elected officials, campaigns and political organizations, including the National Republican Congressional Committee, former San Diego Mayor Susan Golding, former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, the Dole-Kemp '96 campaign and the California Republican Party.

Harris is a graduate of UCLA.

http://www.dcnavigators.com/index.asp?node=45

32 posted on 08/30/2007 5:49:55 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: rogue yam
Once again Fred Thompson’s tacky wife

Explain your justification for that remark, other than blatant jealousy....

33 posted on 08/30/2007 6:12:12 AM PDT by concretebob (I'm NOT pro-war, I'm ANTI - TERRORIST)
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To: concretebob
(coupled with the reports of Fred’s recent death)

The above excerpt contains a cleverly-hidden clue. Find the clue, put your thinking-cap on, and see if you can't answer your own question.

34 posted on 08/30/2007 6:28:25 AM PDT by rogue yam
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To: NonValueAdded

“Oh, thank goodness ... I was thinking Katherine Harris when I saw the headline. Heart attack! Heart attack!”


Nah, Fred wants to win. Hiring Krazy Kathy Harris would preclude any chance of that, she got stomped by Bill Nelson, fercrissakes.


35 posted on 08/30/2007 6:34:23 AM PDT by BritExPatInFla
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To: prairiebreeze
Have you ever competed for a position or for that matter, run a business? Managed pople?

Yes, I do it everyday. I own my own business.
36 posted on 08/30/2007 7:56:20 AM PDT by elizabetty (Was it Dolly Madison or Dolli Madison? First Ladies should not end their name with "I")
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To: elizabetty

Well, so do I. And if a person isn’t working out and my business would be enhanced or my operation function better by the efforts of somebody else, I wouldn’t hesistate to make that decision or change.

We don’t know the reasons Rosette left, could be any number of them. She’s a professional and not some junior employee that must be tutored and brought along.

Yet you snipe at a personnel decision made by the campaign chairman who undoubtedly had his reasons. Your remarks on the Fred threads show your real agenda quite clearly.


37 posted on 08/30/2007 8:20:05 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (PUT AMERICA AHEAD! VOTE FOR FRED!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This guy worked for Jeb? That’s good enough for me!


38 posted on 08/30/2007 8:21:53 AM PDT by ReagansRaiders ("Fearsome" Fred Thompson '08)
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To: rogue yam

a sarcasm tag would have made things easier, Stoopy.


39 posted on 08/30/2007 8:25:11 AM PDT by concretebob (I'm NOT pro-war, I'm ANTI - TERRORIST)
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To: Tall_Texan; Petronski
I’m sure it was no mistake that the headline writer used the word “taps” after all the Larry Craig stuff...

I think the writer means "some condiments on a hot dog."

And since when is "hot dog" one word?

40 posted on 08/30/2007 7:10:21 PM PDT by jdm
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