Tesfaye writes: "Jeb Bush's campaign finds itself in such deep trouble that the former Florida governor and erstwhile frontrunner just announced that he was cutting the size of his campaign staff at his Miami headquarters by half and slashing the pay of his remaining staff by 40 percent in a last ditch attempt to save his flailing campaign."
Jeb Bush. (photo: Getty Images)
Jeb's Complete Campaign Meltdown: Bush Forced to Cut Half His Staff Amid Donor Woes
24 October 15
So much for job creator. Surviving staffers' paychecks are slashed by 40 percent
eb Bush’s campaign finds itself in such deep trouble that the former Florida governor and erstwhile frontrunner just announced that he was cutting the size of his campaign staff at his Miami headquarters by half and slashing the pay of his remaining staff by 40 percent in a last ditch attempt to save his flailing campaign.
Bloomberg first reported on the news, confirming days of speculation about an impending, drastic shift. Bush announced last week that his third-quarter fund-raising was $13.4 million with $10 million on hand and he’s seen no positive shift in his lagging polling.
In what Politico described as a “a wholesale restructuring” of his struggling campaign, Jeb is firing some senior campaign staffers, doing away with a number of consultants and slashing his remaining’s staff salaries by 40 percent in an effort to safe $1 million dollars a month by cutting his total campaign spending by 45 percent (TV ads and mailers excluded).
“We are making changes today to ensure Jeb is best positioned to win the nomination and general election,” campaign spokesperson Kristy Campbell told the Washington Post. In a memo that went out to staffers, Jeb’s campaign explained that they “are unapologetic about adjusting our game plan to meet the evolving dynamics of this race to ensure that outcome.”
But as Politico points out, Jeb’s move really comes at the behest of worried donors. “[A]fter last week’s FEC report, donors demanded major changes, not just belt-tightening around the margins.”
Luckily, it’s not all bad for Jeb HQ staffers in Miami. According to at least one report, the campaign has offered fired staffers new positions in the early voting states of New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina — granted, for a lot less pay.
Jeb’s announced job cuts have already pleased at least one donor. “I particularly appreciate that this strategy shift was quick, strategic and bold. As a donor, I am thrilled to see the campaign focus the lion’s share of resources on voter contact and this will redirect energy to early states,” one Jeb bundler told Reuters.
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---and there you have it. Firing people is the donors' wet dream. Does anyone think the rest of the country will fare any better under the purchased presidency of yet one more weed?
Prescott Bush funded Adolf Hitler in the 1930s and well into the 1940s.
http://www.rense.com/general40/bushfamilyfundedhitler.htm
When a Republican Political Candidate gains office, they reduce funding to education, because a poor education produces ‘cheap Labor’ and a gullible political base.
Republican Political Party philosophy has been a failure for the last 100 years. Google it! The major economic depressions happened during GOP administrations . (1873, 1929, 2007)
No Republican Political Party candidate ever understood Economics.
If they did, they would not be Republican! They do not understand American History, either.
"The Republican Political Party philosophy has the power to cloud Americans minds. Most countries have outlawed the Nazi Party. In America, they have renamed it; the Republican Political Party.
Traitors belong in Prison. Let's put them there rather than in office.
No one could survive W's reign of BS.
Jeb! allowed to enter the race in the first place, probably just to honor the pater fascist familias (true, still living?, evil-old-bastard).
Ah, the glory!
You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can't fool more than 6% of Republican voters this time! Even the Republicans won't have you.
Time to go back to Kennebunkport -- and take George P. Bush with you!
"Questionable"???
You're being too-too kind to the illegally-wroug ht and disastrously run worst administration in recent US history, both times stolen and really headed by Torquemada Cheney, of which this country will be feeling the detritus for a long time to come -as well as the devastation of two countries by needless wars based on lies and the collapse of the US and much of the world's economy.
They should ALL be stuck in Abu Grahib for the rest of their miserable lives.
:-) thing to do.
There's plenty of proof; enough that it would take very little research on line and elsewhere. As a rule, I like to provide plenty of reference and backup but very little effort would provide you with the same.
Anyhoo, we move on, hopefully without Bush the Turd in the picture.
Second: Could this be a signal that the Republican base is finally rejecting trickle-down economics?
Now we might instead see a fall campaign pitting a kooky retired neurosurgeon who thinks the world is 6,000 years old against a self-proclaimed socialist.
We couldn't have done it better :)
- truth dat! zomblicans are hard-wired not to hear anything a dem says - it took one of their own to cure zomblicans of bush 3!
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