[2ndDivisionVet]

Communications people usually work within one party or another and have little to do with issues except for briefing the press. I understand why Fred wanted someone with actual election campaign experience in that role while running for our nation's highest office.

[HarleyLady27]

I sure hope that Fred isn’t planning on having McPain as his V.P. if that is the case, I won’t vote for Fred.....

[elizabetty]

Todd Harris better not get too comfortable in that chair. Apparently Lacy likes to fire folks when things aren’t going according to plan.

[NonValueAdded]

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

[onedoug]

...a former aide to Sen. John McCain and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger....

A maverick.

[kilowhskey]

Thompson better go easy on the “tapping” business until Senator Craig disappears from the radar screen.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Apparently there are a nuimber of insatiable types around here. If Thompson had kept Rozett, they’d be criticizing him for having an amateur PR person. If his wife didn’t take a part in the campaign they say his marriage was shaky. No news here, just criticizm without substance.

[Tall_Texan]

I’m sure it was no mistake that the headline writer used the word “taps” after all the Larry Craig stuff...

[Oystir]

Yea!!!! Kitty is Back! Just like the good ole days. Is Newt around too. Let’s see pictures of Kitty and her horsee.

[rogue yam]

Once again Fred Thompson’s tacky wife has completely restructured Fred’s struggling, cash-starved campaign. This news (coupled with the reports of Fred’s recent death) has me convinced that Fred has no intention of actually running for President.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Harris, a former aide to Sen. John McCain and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger

(Bashes head against brick wall)

[prairiebreeze]

Ron Fournier.....laughable.

[trisham]

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

[ReagansRaiders]

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