Staffers resign in wake of Crist announcement

St. Petersburg, Florida (CNN) – At least three members of Florida Gov. Charlie Crist’s campaign staff resigned on Thursday shortly after Crist announced he is quitting the Republican Party and running for Senate as an independent.

Crist’s campaign attorney Benjamin Ginsberg, a veteran GOP legal player who advised both Bush-Cheney presidential campaigns and later Mitt Romney’s 2008 campaign, sent Crist his resignation letter moments after Thursday’s announcement.

Communications Director Andrea Saul and Press Secretary Amanda Hennenberg – the campaign’s main conduit to the media – also resigned their positions. Both Republicans moved to Tallahassee from Washington, D.C. to work for Crist’s Senate campaign.

“It has been an honor to work for Gov. Crist, and I wish him all of the best," Saul told CNN.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/29/staffers-resign-in-wake-of-crist-announcement/

:hi:

:grr:

you can be an instructive, and constructive influence here.

getting paid. Crist is on a tight budget, I suspect. I'm a Democrat, but if Meeks cannot win this, I'm rooting for the skinny guy with the white hair.

Marco Rubio scares the hell out of me.

I'm sure Crist would've continued to pay them. But if he loses they will never get another gig in Republican politics again. If he wins, it will still be hard.

I don't see anything out of the ordinary here.

1) he was a Republican and that is all that matter.
2) of his stance on the issues and that is more important than party labels.
3) they are full of it.

Most political operatives are working for the party more than they are working for the candidate. There are exceptions, particularly when said political operative has prior personal ties to the candidate. But if you're a career operative, you really can't base your career around one candidate and you constantly have to be thinking about your next job. If they defect from the party and support Crist they likely will never get a job working for another Republican again if Crist doesn't win and even if he does win it will still be difficult.

Of course, I do blame them for being Republicans in the first place but that's another story.