Politics Shake Up at McGavick Campaign
McGavick’s stressed out campaign manager calls it quits.
Here’s an e-mail from McGavick’s communications director:
From: Julie Sund Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 2:43 PM Subject: FYI: McGavick campaign announcement. Campaign Director Ian Goodhew announced today that he will be leaving the campaign. Ian made the following comments to Mike and staff this morning: “I am extremely proud of all that we have achieved in the last eight months. We are one of the top-targeted races in the nation and because of a lot of hard work and long days, there is no doubt we will stay at the top of that list. You all know that I came on to this campaign after a long and stressful period as a prosecutor working specifically on the Green River case and prosecuting sex offenders. And I now have to admit that our early success has taken more of a personal toll on me than I had anticipated. We have worked really hard, we built a great team, and we are built for the long haul. Dan Brady came on board in February to manage the campaign day-to-day and that will continue. I have complete confidence that this team’s work will lead to victory in November.” Mike added the following: “Ian has shown great leadership throughout this campaign. Because of his dedication and hard work, we are in a great position. Our grassroots effort is strong, we have had early fundraising success and a great team has been assembled. I thank him for his friendship, counsel and all he has done to get us to this point.” Julie Sund Communications Director Mike McGavick for U.S. Senate
Suffice it to say, when a campaign manager, on a priority GOP campaing, decides to quitthe higher ups on the Republican side didn’t think things were going so well.
Here’s the Democratic reaction:
Seattle Below is a statement from Dwight Pelz, Chair of the Washington State Democrats on the recent personnel changes at Mike McGavick’s campaign: “The McGavick campaign lost their message and now they’ve lost their manager. Lobbyist Mike! said he was running as a healer and a moderate, but then he turns around and invites Dick Cheney to town and is flying up to Alaska to take money from Big Oil courtesy of Sen. Ted Stevens. This is a sign of a floundering, desperate campaign that has been trying to hide the fact that Lobbyist Mike! is nothing more than a rubberstamp for the Bush Administration.”
Boy, that Pelz certainly is breath of fresh air in that fetid mass open grave that is the democratic party.