BUSH SLASHING SPENDING, SHIFTING STAFF AMID CAMPAIGN WOES
Source: Associated Press
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush is drastically slashing campaign spending, including an across-the-board pay cut for staff, as the one-time front-runner seeks to salvage his bid for the GOP nomination.
The moves will reduce the campaign's payroll by 40 percent, while also cutting travel costs by 20 percent and eliminating extraneous overhead costs. Most campaign officials were told of the cost-cutting on Friday.
The changes mark a significant setback for a campaign that spent months building a large operation, but there are no signs Bush is on the verge of withdrawing from the race. He was scheduled to attend an event at Regent University in Virginia on Friday afternoon and had events with donors beginning Sunday in Texas.
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Saints preserve us from yet another Bush in the White House!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)that will break down and allow Jeb to come in, acting like the 'reasonable one" which he is not. All the same, Trump managed to keep Scott Walker out, if he manages to keep Jeb out, he will have done more to ensure a GOP loss than Debbie Wasserman Schultz ever could.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)Oh, wait, forget it. It appears he doesn't want to help anybody.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Throd
(7,208 posts)mike dub
(541 posts)I wonder if he'll tell his staff to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and get a second job to pay the bills. JEB thinks Americans need to work More hours, anyhow.
Didn't Perry quit within a week of asking his staff to take a pay cut / or was it work for nothing?
I forget
Hopefully JEBu$h doesn't last much longer now, having thrown his staff under the bus.
tanyev
(42,552 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)maybe they could take up self mutilation or something ...............
ancianita
(36,053 posts)These campaign people are getting shuffled to 'offshore' sites where they'll still draw salaries from PACs.
This is all part of campaign narrative to pose him as "underdog."
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Lean and mean? More like broke and a joke.
mahina
(17,651 posts)Last edited Fri Oct 23, 2015, 08:00 PM - Edit history (1)
accept our deepest sincere apology.
I will now devote my life and life's savings to repairing to the best of my ability a part of the immense harm my family has caused on the earth.
This is my last public appearance or statement. Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to live down in small measure some of the shame that my father and brother have bestowed."
Period.
JudyM
(29,236 posts)moonscape
(4,673 posts)because I wanted him to be the nominee not Rubio - even though his crash has seemed clear for a while.
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Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)I can't believe this isn't resonating.