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Bucky

(53,795 posts)
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 05:57 PM Oct 2015

"Trailing in Polls, Jeb Bush Cuts Staff and Salaries, Vowing Focus on Early States"

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http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/10/23/trailing-in-polls-jeb-bush-cuts-staff-and-salaries-vowing-focus-on-early-states/


[font size="4"]Trailing in Polls, Jeb Bush Cuts Staff and Salaries, Vowing Focus on Early States"[/font]

Jeb Bush has ordered across-the-board pay cuts and slashed staff positions at his Miami headquarters — a drastic shake-up for a campaign that has performed far short of early expectations.

According to an internal memo, Mr. Bush plans to reduce payroll costs by 40 percent this week, cut salaries for all but the most entry level staff members, cut travel costs by 20 percent and significantly reduce headquarters staff.

A quarter will remain in Miami, a quarter have already been dispatched to early-voting states, and most of the rest are being offered positions in early states or as part of ballot access efforts, but with pay cuts, the memo said.

“We will be working with staff today and going through each person’s situation, but expect sizable changes,” Danny Diaz, Mr. Bush’s campaign manager, said by email on Friday.

The memo, reported by Bloomberg News on Friday morning, cast the changes as foresighted, arguing that Mr. Bush remained best positioned to win the nomination and the general election and highlighting his extensive field operations in early-voting states. The campaign is planning to place even more emphasis on New Hampshire, which was already seen as critical to Mr. Bush’s fortunes, and the memo said that voters across Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada should expect “to see more visits from Jeb and longer trips.”

Still, the memo acknowledged that the race has veered sharply off course, particularly with the rise of Donald J. Trump.

“It’s no secret that the contours of this race have changed from what was anticipated at the start,” the memo said, adding, somewhat defensively, ”We would be less than forthcoming if we said we predicted in June that a reality television star supporting Canadian-style single-payer health care and partial-birth abortion would be leading the G.O.P. primary.”


ahhh, that felt good
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"Trailing in Polls, Jeb Bush Cuts Staff and Salaries, Vowing Focus on Early States" (Original Post) Bucky Oct 2015 OP
ROFL! lindysalsagal Oct 2015 #1
Poor Jeb, first his idiot brother beats him to the White House Bucky Oct 2015 #2

Bucky

(53,795 posts)
2. Poor Jeb, first his idiot brother beats him to the White House
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 06:30 PM
Oct 2015

And now his entire idiot party is rejecting him... for even bigger idiots like Trump, Carson, and Cruz. Mentally stable candidates can't even break Top 3 among Republicans.

Oh, what a clown show

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