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Related: About this forumBernie Sanders staff shake-up: Top strategists leave his presidential campaign
From NBC News:
In a major shake-up to Bernie Sanders' just-launched presidential bid, some of his top strategists have left the campaign.
Tad Devine, Mark Longabaugh and Julian Mulvey, partners in a political consulting firm who all played leading roles in Sanders' 2016 campaign for the White House, are parting ways with the senator, citing creative differences.
"The entire firm has stepped away. We're leaving the campaign," Longabaugh told NBC News on Tuesday. "We just didn't have a meeting of the minds."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/bernie-sanders-staff-shakeup-top-strategists-leave-his-presidential-campaign-n976221?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_np
From Fortune Magazine:
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Sanders will still need to overcome reports that his 2016 campaign perpetuated a culture of sexism and harassment. The senator has twice publicly apologized for the alleged behavior, after first saying he was too busy to be aware of the mistreatment.
http://fortune.com/2019/02/26/bernie-sanders-2020-strategists/
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
yardwork
(61,704 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Well, most likely itll come out eventually whatever is might be.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)In the business world, whenever the top talent sees that the company is sinking, they typically abandon ship. The smart ones will protect their careers and reputations by getting out before it gets ugly. They'll want to secure new jobs while their current position is a mere "line item" on their CV rather than a "splotch" to be covered over.
Anyway, the only reason I mention that, is because I wonder if there's any correlation between how people behave in the business-world and the political-world in that regard.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
George II
(67,782 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)"Creative differences?" What does that even mean?
Basically, I think they're leaving because they want to find a candidate with a better chance of success. I can't think of any other good reason for that group bailing out. Well, actually, I guess I can. Maybe Bernie wasn't willing to pay them as much as they wanted.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)with clean, shiny new campaign manager: Faiz Shakir, former national political director for the American Civil Liberties Union. Shakir's also worked for Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.
Don't know how Sanders could have been so foolish as to rehire those operatives in the first place. Obviously there are strategic differences in going relatively respectable and trying to align more with the progressives he rejected last time, but surely the feedback also clued him in that this time the press will be asking all the unpleasant questions they didn't before, and more?
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden