Posted on 02/18/2011 2:17:19 PM PST by NoLibZone
Spokesman Sergio Gor and district director Julie Quist have both informed the congresswoman that they are leaving her office.
Neither is departing with ill will toward Bachmann, who is considering a run for the White House in 2012.
Quist is retiring from her post and said she’ll miss working for the congresswoman.
Gor also had nothing but praise for the congresswoman. “I have enjoyed working for Congresswoman Bachmann tremendously, and have nothing but praise and admiration for her,” he said.
But even without any fireworks, the two exits add to a long a long line of recently departed Bachmann aides, as her office has had an extremely high turnover rate since the Minnesota Republican was first elected to Congress in 2006.
Bachmann has had four chiefs of staff leave since coming to congress – Rich Dunn, Ron Carey, Michelle Marston and Brooks Kochvar. The Minnesota firebrand also had her campaign finance director Zandra Wolcott leave during the middle of her reelection campaign last year.
That high turnover rate stands as a major red flag if she indeed wants to run for president. Much of the infrastructure that quickly built her brand is no longer in her orbit.
Had he stayed, Gor likely would be her chief point of contact with a media following her campaign. Wolcott meanwhile helped build the fundraising network that yielded more than $10 million for Bachmann’s uncompetitive reelection campaign last year.
And Marston was instrumental in creating the Bachmann brand, and making the congresswoman a constant fixture on cable television.
“There are a lot of people who are good, smart, well-meaning, well-intentioned members of Congress, but they speak to the people like they are members of Congress. Rep. Bachmann talks to people like they are people,” Marston told POLITICO in 2009 while working for the Congresswoman. “You either love Michele Bachmann or you don’t love Michele Bachmann at all.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49816.html#ixzz1ELpJbIXi
If you can’t take the heat, it’s always a good idea to get the hell out of the kitchen.
Sounds like her staff gets burnt out.
I doubt Congresswoman Bachman sets an easygoing pace on par with the rest of the Reps.
Can anyone find an: Aides Bail On Obama- news article?
PMSNBC bait.....book deal....movie deal....The View appearance....Leno.....etc.
It all depends on where the former aides go. Sometimes this is a way of getting your people out into Congress to influence others. Barney Frank has been rotating staff out to junior Democrats for years. That’s how his guys were able to snag Representative Massa so quickly.
“That high turnover rate stands as a major red flag if she indeed wants to run for president”.
...Politico wishes and I doubt it. As she gains momentum she’ll need to seperate the “men from the boys”. These people that quit were just extra baggage.
She’s going from a local to a national personality. I’m sure many aides are uncomfortable with the transition.
But not a red flag in Obama’s administration.
No need to apologize. I was offering an explanation for why she’s losing staff, not making an endorsement.
I like Bachmann and have contributed to her several times. My only criticism is that once she gets your name and phone number, she hounds you for money constantly. I finally told one of her telemarketers if they didn't stop calling me at work I would stop giving completely.
The Soros gang are probably buying them out to remove a major threat to their boy in 2012.
Ho-Hum, another Obama spin and hit piece from “Politico” the “Obama” rag!!!
Quist is retiring from her post and said she'll miss working for the congresswoman. Gor also had nothing but praise for the congresswoman.I look forward to Politico's joining the "not wanted here" list on FR.
Hey I don't see the anti-Palin, we hate Sarah all the time dimits with their Bachmann ping list here yet...What happened?
“phone number”
Big mistake. I donated to candidates all over the U.S. prior to last November; in every case I filled in a fake number: 111-111-1111. Otherwise, I knew I’d end up on the receiving end of a bazillion sucker list phone calls from everywhere on the planet.
Could be because she makes wages of a public servant. You know, she has a servant’s heart . I am positive if she quit, she could be a millionaire?
Right?
Yeah, but you blow money all the time on a fake conservative. You are very dishonest.
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