Spiked 2007 GQ Story: Hillary's Campaign Mgr. Watched Soap Operas, Did Not Return Calls, Was FIRED!

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Spiked 2007 GQ Story: Hillary's Campaign Mgr. Watched Soap Operas, Did Not Return Calls, Was FIRED!

Edited on Fri Feb-15-08 11:41 AM by Dems Will Win

GQ reportedly spiked a Clinton story earlier in 2007. This is the article, now published in The Atlantic. This is the real reason why the Clintons' campaign was run so badly, Hillary appointed her scheduler as campaign manager:

Inside the Clinton Shake-Up

After the race, Solis Doyle was put in charge of fund-raising and later became campaign manager for Clinton�s Senate reelection bid in 2006. She earned a reputation as a contentious, domineering boss. Along the way, many of the staff members who worked under her left or were forced out, including several high-powered members of Clinton�s inner circle, such as Kelly Craighead and Evelyn Lieberman, the deputy chief of staff to Bill Clinton famous for banishing Monica Lewinsky to the Pentagon. The frequent turnover in the fund-raising shop was a significant measure of Solis Doyle�s unpopularity. Clinton staffers are notably loyal, and turnover among them tends to be much lower than it is among the staffs of other politicians. Fund-raising under Solis Doyle was a glaring exception, chalking up the kind of body count you�d expect from an episode of The Sopranos. She was infamous among her colleagues for referring to herself as �the queen bee� and for her habit of watching daytime soap operas in her office. One frequent complaint among donors and outside advisers was that Solis Doyle often did not return calls or demonstrate the attention required in her position.

Concerns about Solis Doyle have preoccupied many in the campaign for several years. Clinton insiders say that her campaign chairman, Terry McAuliffe, launched an unsuccessful bid to remove Solis Doyle while on vacation with the Clintons two years ago. Two top campaign officials told me that Maggie Williams, Hillary�s former chief of staff (and, as of Sunday, her campaign manager), also sought and failed to have Solis Doyle removed two years ago. Last year, some of Bill Clinton�s former advisers, known as the �White Boys,� lobbied to oust her, too.

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This belief in Hillary�s unassailability fostered a complacency that may cost Clinton more dearly than anyone could have imagined. But at the time, no one recognized what was happening. Instead of launching her presidential campaign, even informally, Clinton and Solis Doyle insisted that no one so much as mention the possibility of a White House bid until after she�d been reelected to the Senate�a move insiders now concede was a serious tactical flaw that allowed Barack Obama�s campaign to take off unchallenged. The error wasn�t simply letting Obama get a head start in raising money. It was failing to realize that the world of political fund-raising had changed dramatically since Bill Clinton had last run for president, in a way that put a premium on different kinds of fund-raisers than the ones to which the Clintons had ties. Campaign-finance reform had banned the large, six-figure �soft-money� contributions the Clintons once relied on from people like Ron Burkle, Steve Bing, and David Geffen. In their place, small, �hard-money� donations took on far greater importance, and a new generation of fund-raisers able to corral many people to write four-figure checks suddenly became the true prize. But many of them�people like Mark Gorenberg, Alan Solomont, and Steve Westly�were not as well known to the Clintons. �I think of the difference as being between �writers� and �raisers,� � Gorenberg, a venture capitalist who was John Kerry�s biggest fund-raiser in the 2004 election, told me last year. Like Gorenberg, many of the new hard-money fundraisers are tech moguls who hail from a wealth center, Silicon Valley, that barely existed during Bill Clinton�s last run.

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Even after grasping the magnitude of the threat, the Clinton campaign didn�t react quickly and stuck to the strategy of trying to project an aura of inevitability. Here, too, Solis Doyle was disastrous; her lack of skill in areas other than playing the loyal heavy began to show. The first public sign of this came just after Clinton�s reelection to the Senate. Even though Clinton had faced no serious opponent, it turned out that Solis Doyle, as campaign manager, had burned through more than $30 million. As this New York Times story makes clear, the donor base was incensed. Toward the end of the Senate campaign, Solis Doyle did her best to bolster the impression of the inevitability of Hillary�s nomination as the Democratic presidential candidate, spreading word that Clinton�s Senate reelection fund-raising had gone so exceptionally well that $40 million to $50 million would be left after Election Day to transfer to the incipient presidential campaign. But this turned out to be a wild exaggeration�and Solis Doyle must have known it was. Disclosure filings revealed a paltry $10 million in cash on hand; far from conveying Hillary�s inevitability, this had precisely the opposite effect, encouraging, rather than frightening off, potential challengers.

Rather than punish Solis Doyle or raise questions about her fitness to lead, Clinton chose her to manage the presidential campaign for reasons that should now be obvious: above all, Clinton prizes loyalty and discipline, and Solis Doyle demonstrated both traits, if little else. This suggests to me that for all the emphasis Clinton has placed on executive leadership in this campaign, her own approach is a lot closer to the current president�s than her supporters might like to admit.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200802u/patti-solis-doyle

I believe this shows her poor leadership skills as well as Bush-like cronyism that would continue to destroy America is she is elected President. Not good at all for our nation.

Here is a link to video of the Josh Green speaking about his reporting:
http://www.jossip.com/killed-in-gq-josh-greens-hillary-clinton-profile-finds-new-life-20080214/

Update: Because Patty Solis Doyle is Mexican-American, her firing and the way this is being reported has ticked off Hispanic leaders BIG-TIME. Today's poll out of TX shows Obama ahead 48-42 and losing to Latinos by ONLY 2 POINTS!!

Super-delegate Yberra:

In an email to his comrades shortly after the announcement, Ybarra made it clear that he didn�t buy it.

�Apparently, loyalty is not a two-way street,� he wrote. �Latino superdelegates like myself will have cause to pause.�

Ybarra was criticized for the email that many took as a suggestion that he would discourage Hispanic voters from supporting the senator. But according to Ybarra, that wasn�t the point at all -- but he did want to point out the red flags.

�I have not made a commitment to any candidate yet,� Ybarra said. �But there�s a way that you do this stuff where people aren�t treated like they�re used property. And this one doesn�t pass the smell test.�

PLEASE RECOMMEND IF YOU THINK HILLARY BLEW IT BY APPOINTING HER SCHEDULER AS CAMPAIGN MANAGER