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The worst move in the campaign was that Simon virtually disappeared for three months after the primary, dumping all the momentum he had. That time should have been used to organize GOTV and get the base excited. Instead, all I heard from the campaign was, "Wait for June," then it was, "Wait 'til September." What a joke that was.

This wasn't a matter of money. Grass roots work is cheap. It was bad management by consultants who make their money from media buys, forgetting that they can't charge as much if they don't win. The whole thing made me sick long before the election. The machinations of Gerry Parsky et al. (and their representatives here on FR) only made it worse.

Well, I don't disagree with what you wrote about the Simon campaign.

The reference to the inner-office tension was a reflection on the number of competing coalitions that made up the general election campaign.

The end result was total and complete inaction for months. And I hold my bosses accountable as much as I do the other competing factions.

Like I said, it was an ugly ugly period of time and a campaign that still causes me nightmares.