The Monday Morning Clacker provides an informal piece on the news that Jill Hazelbaker - previously the NH communications director - had been promoted to communications director at McCain’s national HQ in Arlington, VA. Titled ” ‘Nails Rising”, here’s the Clacker’s text:
GreenMountainPolitics1 has learned that there are plans to name Jill “Nails” Hazelbaker as McCain’s […]
The Monday Morning Clacker is the exceptionally wired-in, upper-New-England-based new-media publisher, who covers the New Hampshire primary in particular, and Campaign 2008 in general. He remains confident that the campaign is far from over. Some highlights from his July 17 post on Team McCain - “Hurting - But Far From Broken”:
a chance encounter in Old Town, Virginia […]
On Saturday, the NY Times published, in its Weekend section, the transcript of a short interview with Senator McCain. Perhaps most noteworthy was Senator McCain’s unequivocal ruling out of the option of tapping his wife Cindy’s personal fortune to help fuel the campaign. And in juxtaposition, there was the fact that he specifically did not rule […]
The Washington Post’s Michael D. Shear reported on Friday afternoon that Fred Davis, the media consultant who designed the McCain 2008 logo and whose firm created the 2008 design of the Straight Talk Express bus, revived from 2000 - regretfully became the latest high-level departure from Senator McCain’s campaign. Here’s the text of the post:
Fred Davis […]
Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic called The Tower’s attention to a well-detailed post by the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza on “The Fix”. Cillizza has obtained - from a rival campaign - a painstakingly detailed summary of the staff acquired by Fred Thompson’s unofficial presidential campaign.
(The Tower deems it unlikely that the McCain campaign is Cillizza’s source, since the drastically-scaled-back team would […]