Clinton Campaign Shake-Up: Patti Solis Doyle Steps Down
Hillary Clinton Campaign Director Patti Solis Doyle has stepped down.
Maggie Williams will now take her place. Mark Penn stays where he is, for the time being.
Big news.
[Update: Solis Doyle will remain a "Senior Adviser" to the campaign -- and some are spinning this as Doyle's decision to step aside rather than being deposed by Clinton. My Hillaryland source reiterated that Doyle was moved out of her spot by Hillary Clinton. I am "reframing" Doyle's move from serving as Campaign Manager to Senior Advisor as "stepping down" rather than "fired" based on a conversation with another senior Clinton campaign staff member.]
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Consistently crying the day before a primary is a tell-tale sign about the person's caliber in handling stress. There are other factors but this is definitely a warning sign.
I am an activist and when confronted by hate mail or death-threats I could not cry. I cried later with friends about how cruel it was, but I needed my supporters to know I could handle being embarrassed because I needed them to have faith that I was not fragile and would act and react emotionally.
Hillary has been shedding tears easily these few weeks. It seems that this campaign is wearing on her and she simply is not used to losing in public. During the Clinton investigations and scandals, she had a press secretary and was hidden behind the White House walls. So she could brace herself for public viewing. This campaign does not give her space to hide. So we see exactly how fragile she is.
No one never said Hillary could not fight. I am simple saying she is exposing a very weak side that signals she is fragile when she is not up. We don't know if the US will be up when and if she is elected. I don't want some emotional president trying to play tough to over-compensate for feeling vulnerable and scared.
"Initially, Clinton's former White House chief of staff, Maggie Williams, was brought in to run the campaign even though Solis Doyle was still there. The result was confusion and awkwardness for the staff, who weren't sure who was really in charge.
But even more problematic was the campaign's money crunch. Over the last seven years, Clinton had raised $175 million for her reelection and her presidential campaign. But Solis Doyle didn't tell Clinton that there was next to no cash on hand until after the New Hampshire primary.
"We were lying about money," a source said. "The cash on hand was nothing."
In turn, Clinton didn't tell Solis Doyle that she was lending her own money to keep the campaign afloat. Solis Doyle found out third-hand. And when she asked Clinton about it, the senator told her she couldn't understand how the campaign had gotten to such a point."
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Senator Clinton has executive management skills??
What is it, day 27 since the start of primary season? And the candidate who keeps claiming to be ready to run the nation on 'day one' of her presidency still hasn't gotten her own campaign off the ground.
The Clinton campaign keeps getting outworked and out-organised by Obama, the man she tries to portray as lacking management experience.
If he's so callow, Hilary, how come you're losing to him?
You do know what Patti's role as an "advisor" is going to be??
Advising on where to buy campaign office supplies:
1)Office Depot or 2) Staples.
No third term for the Clintons.
She keeps seeking the right spin, when all we want is what they really think.
I listened to Hilly and she's adopting whole phrases from Obama speeches from a while ago.
Kinda like Romney, the Clintons are political gumbies morphing into whatever the think will please the audience before them.
If she'd known then what she knows now . . . .
Ms Solis Doyle is the daughter of Mexican immigrants and an important part of the Clinton hold on Latino voters. Ooops, there goes the Texas firewall. If I'm right, this thing is over.
By the way, could we all start asking the msm to please stop including super delegates in their delegate counts, or at least to always give a seperate count of earned-in-elections pledged delegates along with their
super delegate estimates. Every day more and more Democratic leaders, including super delegates, are making it clear that the only fair and realistic way to end this thing is for the super delegates, or most of them, to agree in advance to support whoever wins the most elected delegates based on the rules as established by the DNA and agreed to by all candidates. Obama should unequivically agree to that result, and so should Clinton. If either fails to do so, the super delegates should do it anyway. If a victory in the primary elections and caucuses is taken away by the "leaders" you might as well move to Canada right now, because John McCain will be elected.
So you're saying she wasn't TOSSED UNDER THE BUS, so much as she stepped in front it; resulting in a glancing blow (lesser title in a pay-check to paycheck campaign)?
Hillary saying she's a mother first is funny when you remember during her kids early yeears she chose not to stay home and bake cookies, remember that? Who raised the kid? She was busy doing charity like her bio says? Nope she was busy, very busy working at the law firm where she made buckets of money on the boards, like Wal Mart and elsewhere. Since Bill left the house he's been raking in the dough from Burkles friendship and speaking..
To Jacktheblogger:
Trust me Jack, as black man I can assure you that putting Maggie W. in the position as manager will not make a difference in Hillary gaining "the black vote." The dye has already been cast for this election. Bill and Robert Johnson set her fate in N.C. and will not change this election cycle. If it was that simple then we should assume that Hillary was abandoning the hispanic vote with the reassignment of Ms. Solis. Right?
Steve, because you have been a devout Clinton supporter from the beginning, can we expect this type of organizational behavior to continue if by some miracle they get re-elected????
This comes as no surprise considering just how poorly she has done since Super Tuesday. Her campaign is falling apart and someone has to take the blame, that is the way both of the Clintons work, it is never their fault. I am surprised she is not claiming a vast left wing conspiracy to derail her campaign. Her campaign is being derailed because Americans want change, not just more of the status quo. She should just go ahead and step aside for the good of the party. LOL, like that will ever happen. This woman will hire every lawyer she can to force the DNC to seat Florida, she will bend arms, take names, and intimidate the super delegates in any way she can. She nor Bill is human enough to ever do the right thing, they are narcissists who are so self absorbed that all they can do is point fingers to others and say that it is everyone elses fault.
Stay tuned as the campaigns go on. Wear haz-mat gear at all times, full, well sealed & leak resistant haz-mat gear. A lot more serious shit's going to hit the fan between now & the 1st Tue in Nov '08. The shit storm will go to gale force from election day in '08 to 1/20/09; after 1/20/09-it will be hurricane season for all. Haz-mat gear isn't going to save W & Co's crew, even if they're confined 100 ft below a most secure super-max; the'll still have to appear at their trials & the other hearings investigating the era between 1/20/01 & 1/20/09. High winds, flying material pried loose by the storm & the blinding curtain of shit will make transporting W & Co's crew to their trials & other proceedings most dangerous & the mother of all hazards.
It will be ironic & almost like poetic justice if any of W & Co's dies by being smothered in shit before they can be tried, found guilty, sentenced to death & executed. The thought that those escorting &/or transporting W & Co's crew will be injured or die in the line of duty is disturbing.
So, it appears that the more things change, the more they stay the same....
Are skeletons going to start falling out of the campaign closet? Has Hillary released the Clinton's tax returns?
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Posted February 10, 2008 | 04:14 PM (EST)