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Posted on 07/01/2011 7:45:59 PM PDT by BAW
A few days after two senior aides in New England, the other shoe drops on Herman Cain in Iowa:
Herman Cain’s Iowa Director, Tina Goff, told TheIowaRepublican.com that she has submitted her resignation and is no longer working for the campaign. In addition to Goff’s resignation, TheIowaRepublican.com can confirm that Kevin Hall has also left the campaign. Hall served as Cain’s Straw Poll coordinator.
Goff and Hall both worked on Fred Thompson’s presidential campaign in 2008 and Iowa Governor Terry Branstad’s campaign in 2010. Goff stated that she resigned because the Cain campaign refused to make a serious effort in Iowa, the home of the First-in-the-Nation caucuses.
Cain spokeswoman Ellen Carmichael told POLITICO a few days ago that the New Hampshire staff would be replaced in short order. Cain has not yet released his quarterly fundraising numbers.
Cain just released his Q2 numbers, he has raised 2.46 million. (Correction from my post above)
Yes he has had fundraisers, several, both online and meet and greets. I have been to several. He just had an online moneybomb that that did well.
And he has been to Iowa 21 times since his campaign started, and 14 times to NH.
Without going into detail, I can only say that Goff (and Hall’s) resignations will do nothing but help his campaign. Goff’s efforts were especially pathetic...
I expect his campaign should start taking off at this point.
Yes he has had fundraisers, several, both online and meet and greets. I have been to several.” ====
Excellent news. More likely that the media shows his fundraising efforts little interest than he has not done well.
I hope you’re correct about the staff losses. It tends to be bad press thanks to the media covering only one side of the story.
When will the GOP decide to let conservative states like Oklahoma, Idaho, and Mississippi hold our first primaries instead of letting Democrat states like Iowa and New Hampshire choose our candidates for us? That's how we got stuck with McCain last time.
I believe the mainstream media is not showing interest, because they do not want people to think that he has a chance. On social media, his fundraising has been promoted extensively. He has nearly 200,000 volunteers now and much of his fundraising is happening by word of mouth.
As for staff, Herman Cain is not the type to badmouth people who leave his campaign, so I don’t know if we will ever know the whole story. I know enough just from observation, that Goff was in way over her head. Cain staffers in some states have been able to put together crowds of 1000 to 15,000, but it looks to me like Goff was scraping together 40 to 100 from poor publicizing and few to no connections. There is rumor that she deliberately sabatoged him (but I don’t know that for a fact).
Anyway, he did better in Iowa with just the volunteers running things.
Just my .02 :-)
Nothing to see here. It’s Politico. They may have resigned, but you’ll never get the real reason why from this rag.
Pretty good numbers.
Quick question. Is Cain still the only candidate that’s committed to the debate in Vegas this month? I had read that a few weeks earlier and was disappointed nobody else had planned at that point to attend.
Obama managed to make Petraeus an offer he couldn’t refuse.
You know there are many here that don't want to hear that. They want to believe that their candidate will not have to compete against Herman.
Full speed ahead! ;)
Please, let’s be serious. Everybody cheers for their own horse to win. We’ve been doing it this way for over 200 years and it won’t change anytime soon. The big risk on this go-around is empowering a RINO win, which will ensure a GOP defeat in the general. At the end of the day, in a unique act of principled unity, I fully expect the conservative caucus of the GOP nominee pool to throw their delegates behind the strongest anti-RINO nominee still standing at the end of the primary process. None other than Sarah Palin, of course. :)
“Cain just released his Q2 numbers, he has raised 2.46 million.”
Excellent.
I want all the conservatives in the presidential race to do well, and that includes Cain, Bachmann, Santorum (and Palin, if she decides to run).
We just don’t know who will catch on fire the most, just before the primaries, so I’m supporting all the good guys.
There are those that cheer before their horse is on the track. :)
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If you think that particular horse isn’t on the track, you’re just not listening to that extra set of hooves pounding away in the backfield. Take courage to look over your shoulder, and you will see our Secretariat, holding back, waiting for her moment, and it will come, God willing.
Agreed. I have worked in Iowa politics before My guess is Cain wasn’t sufficiently stroking his staffer’s egos.
You are dead on. In fact, they are complaining that they were working hard and making inroads with “establishment” types. That tells me all I needed to know.
The new staffer is already in place and his campaign hasn’t missed a beat. His first Iowa event since the transition already had bigger numbers and better impact.
I thought so. In Iowa, political egos get completely out of control. It becomes about the staffer, not the candidate. That, and the fact that unctious religios who have never read Bastiat or Atlas Shrugged and have no idea what personal freedom is have taken over the party in Iowa, is why I got out.
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