Beto skips town while his brain trust sketches 2020 plans

[brooklynite]

Politico

EL PASO — Beto O’Rourke has left Texas, decamping for a highly anticipated road trip, but his former advisers are quietly sketching the outline of a potential presidential run that would replicate — and on a national scale — the grassroots-driven organizing model O’Rourke employed in his Texas Senate campaign.

Becky Bond, a senior adviser to Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign and an adviser to O’Rourke’s 2018 Senate run, has been talking with operatives in recent days about potential jobs on a 2020 campaign, two sources familiar with those conversations told POLITICO.

The effort is preliminary, and the imprimatur of O’Rourke was implied — not stated, the sources said. Unlike many candidates-in-waiting, who have PACs or other organizations to assemble staff, O’Rourke is not yet assembling a campaign team.

But in talks with Democratic strategists, Bond and David Wysong, O’Rourke’s former longtime chief of staff, have discussed ways for O’Rourke to expand the “distributed organizing” form of field operations used by Sanders in 2016 and replicated by O’Rourke last year — with the campaign training low-level staffers and volunteers to orchestrate their own, phone banking, text and email operations.

[AlexSFCA]

1. he definately has a talent for campaigning

I’ve never donated to any out of state candidate before but he truly inspired me and made me believe that our best days are ahead.

[True Dough]

2. "skips town"

Talk about sensational. Trying to make something out of nothing. Not a good look, Politico.

[dalton99a]

3. +1. Stupid headline

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. "Not a good look, Politico"?

Have you met Politico?

[True Dough]

5. Just casually

We're not dating or anything.