CT GOV: Howard Wolfson joins Lamont team

More help needed Imus is back (0.00 / 0)

Do you think Ned will use any of the original campaign staff?

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by: Danny @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 16:16:24 PM CST

Not likely at all. (0.00 / 0)

At least I think.

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by: Tim Tagaris @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 17:08:01 PM CST

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Just googling around and found (0.00 / 0)

He's anti MSNBC

and pro-Faux News.

And I just this minute received a fund raising email from Ned Lamont!

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by: Sue @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 16:38:22 PM CST

Hillary Clinton, Mike Bloomberg........... (4.00 / 1)

--Hillary Clinton raised $227 mil to lose a raise she likely would have won with a better team behind her, including Mark Penn and Howard Wolfson. Wolfson recieved a reported $220,000 per month in compensation. David Plouffe was paid $160,000 a year for Barack Obama.

--Mike Bloomberg spent over $100 mil to win a mayor's race by 5% against a largely unknown opponent.

I sure hope Ned Lamont watches his spending around these professional advisors.

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by: Scarce @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 16:50:30 PM CST

Obama campaign... (0.00 / 0)

Put salary caps on the entire organization.  I think Plouffe only made $144,000 a year and that was the cap for any position, with the exception of the finance director who made more than anyone.

That might have increased in the general election, however.

Tim

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by: Tim Tagaris @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 17:09:23 PM CST

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It was ony $800,000, or maybe it could have been (0.00 / 0)

1 million .

And Hillary still lost.

The State Department position pays but $153,200 a year, a small fraction of his recent earnings. By one calculation, he was paid about $1 million for 18 months on the campaign trail. Another calculation has it at about $800,000.

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by: Sue @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 17:41:27 PM CST

Either way Ned has not started off with... (0.00 / 0)

a smart choice. My money and vote is with Susan.

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by: KillingworthDem @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 18:27:16 PM CST

WaPo's "The Fix" blog has this on Lamont (0.00 / 0)

"...In the 2006 Senate campaign, he spent nearly $14 of his own money on the race -- a significant sum in a state as compact as Connecticut."

Nearly fourteen bucks? Jeez, who knew Ned was such a cheapskate?  

http://voices.washingtonpost.c...

Connecticut Bob

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by: Bob Adams @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 21:19:48 PM CST

I think that (0.00 / 0)

saying he's "joined the team" might not be a fair characterization at this point. It seems like Ned went out of his way to qualify it as "free advice."

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by: ATalbot @ Wed Nov 11, 2009 at 08:34:22 AM CST

Yesterday's gone...yesterday's gooooone (0.00 / 0)

Bad pick by Lamont.

Wolfson is a tit for tat PR goon who keeps you playing ping pong with the 24 hour news cycle. In 2010 the trick is to ignore the 24 hour news cycle (the modern press has lower credibility than Congress) and just aggregate more positive contacts with voters through active media means like videos, Twitter, email lists, social networking, and most of all in the flesh. Then you spin the contacts into votes. Rinse, repeat. Lamont may as well hire Chris Lehane and then he'll have have the matching set of tired 90s political snakes in his braintrust.

I like Lamont but his first step was backwards with this pick.

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by: joejoejoe @ Wed Nov 11, 2009 at 20:06:08 PM CST

Guys, please, this isn't a <b>pick</b> (0.00 / 0)

People are talking about this "pick" as if he was named to some formal and irrevocable position in the campaign. Ned made clear in the Cilizza interview that Wolfson is one of many people he is getting free advice from. Saying you're not going to vote for someone because in the initial, exploratory phase of his campaign he got on the phone with a PR consultant you find less than savory is an overreaction.

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by: OGDem @ Wed Nov 11, 2009 at 22:07:30 PM CST