Ben Smith at Politico just posted this: Washington Post Communications Director Kris Coratti emails: “Dave offered his resignation and we accepted it.” That’s following yesterday’s drama where Weigel apparently aired some frustrations regarding some right wing media types on a mailing list: FishbowlDC has obtained e-mails written by WaPo‘s conservative-beat blogger Dave Weigel, that the […]
A familiar face from CNN has a new gig with the RNC: Alex Castellanos, a Republican media consultant, will take over as a senior communications adviser to RNC Chairman Michael Steele, according to a source familiar with the move. The announcement of Castellanos’ role comes hours after communications director Trevor Francis announced he was leaving […]
The detail of Sanford’s little lover’s rendezvous in Argentina keep emerging. The latest round shows that Sanford’s office truly didn’t know where he was and couldn’t contact him: Gov. Mark Sanford’s chief of staff, Scott English, called the governor’s cell phones 15 times during the governor’s secret trip to Argentina to visit his lover last […]
Reports are coming out that Robert Gibbs will be Obama’s press secretary. This would be an appropriate pick since Gibbs was the communications director for the Obama campaign.
When they are let off their leash, some Republicans can’t help but show their inner racism: The spokeswoman for the Republican Party in Nevada’s most populous county was removed from her post Saturday, after she said the Democratic Party made black people “dependent on the government.” Didi Lima, the Clark County GOP communications director, also […]
Since the news of Edwards affair broke on Friday, I’ve been waiting for this: “I believe we would have won Iowa, and Clinton today would therefore have been the nominee,” former Clinton Communications Director Howard Wolfson told ABCNews.com. Does the Clinton campaign really want to base their loss on an affair? If they want to […]
If you haven’t heard the Tennessee GOP posted a piece today going full bore against Obama. From using the Huesein middle name, to the Somalia garb photo, they have left nothing uncovered. This was some heavy hitting by Bill Hobbs, communications director for the Tennessee GOP, who also posted this on his own blog: Silly, […]
The NRCC is suffering some serious problems, not a good thing on an election year. Not only do they have the criminal investigation into accounting practices going on and an alarming number of incumbents opting to not seek re-election, but now they have lost their communications director.
Then America don’t want it! In a widely expected move, Sen. John McCain‘s (R-Ariz.) press department resigned en masse today. Communications director Brian Jones stepped down, along with deputies Matt David and Danny Diaz. Research director Brian Rogers and South Carolina McCain spokesman Adam Temple are also leaving the campaign. None of the depatures is […]
There are other stories that the media has just totally ignored: David Addington, chief legal adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, says he was taken aback when the White House started making public pronouncements about the CIA leak investigation. In the fall of 2003, President Bush’s press secretary was categorically denying that either Karl Rove […]