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Perry brings aboard GOP heavy hitters, going up with ads in Iowa
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Exactly one month after Rick Perry's disappointing performance in the Florida straw poll, the governor's team in Austin is getting an influx of new talent.
Four veteran GOP operatives are reportedly taking roles with the Perry team amidst faltering poll numbers, just 10 weeks before the Iowa caucuses.
Pollster Tony Fabrizio (first reported by Politico), strategists Nelson Warfield and Curt Anderson (as first reported by Time) will be joining Team Perry, as will Bush 2000 campaign guru Joe Allbaugh.
Fabrizio, who served as Dole's chief strategist in 1996, more recently worked for Gov. Rick Scott in 2010 -- along with Warfield and Anderson.
A source with knowledge of the campaign tells NBC News that Allbaugh "has been quietly helping for some time" with Perry's strategy.
It's unclear what the campaign additions mean for the existing tight-knit staff of Perry loyalists in Austin, but the beefed-up team sends a signal to donors and potential backers - especially in Rick Scott's Florida home state of Florida and the site of Perry's debate Waterloo -- that the Texas governor is willing to assemble a formidable national campaign.
One fundraiser for Perry called the move "necessary and encouraging" and said that calls for the campaign to add more veteran professional pols increased after Perry's poor performance in the Presidency 5 events in Orlando in September.
"Wish it had happened a month ago," the person said.
The news of the staff additions came on the same day as reports that Perry will launch TV ads in Iowa beginning tomorrow. A Perry source confirmed that ads in the state are forthcoming but could not offer details on the timing of the launch.
A spokesman for Perry declined to comment on either the staff changes or the ads, saying that the campaign does not "discuss strategy."
Warfield was Bob Dole's 1996 presidential campaign spokesman and more recently a consultant to candidate Fred Thompson. Curt Anderson worked as a strategist for Steve Forbes in 1999 and served as the political director of the Republican National Committee under Haley Barbour.
Exactly one month after Rick Perry's disappointing performance in the Florida straw poll, the governor's team in Austin is getting an influx of new talent.
Four veteran GOP operatives are reportedly taking roles with the Perry team amidst faltering poll numbers, just 10 weeks before the Iowa caucuses.
Pollster Tony Fabrizio (first reported by Politico), strategists Nelson Warfield and Curt Anderson (as first reported by Time) will be joining Team Perry, as will Bush 2000 campaign guru Joe Allbaugh.
Fabrizio, who served as Dole's chief strategist in 1996, more recently worked for Gov. Rick Scott in 2010 -- along with Warfield and Anderson.
A source with knowledge of the campaign tells NBC News that Allbaugh "has been quietly helping for some time" with Perry's strategy.
It's unclear what the campaign additions mean for the existing tight-knit staff of Perry loyalists in Austin, but the beefed-up team sends a signal to donors and potential backers - especially in Rick Scott's Florida home state of Florida and the site of Perry's debate Waterloo -- that the Texas governor is willing to assemble a formidable national campaign.
One fundraiser for Perry called the move "necessary and encouraging" and said that calls for the campaign to add more veteran professional pols increased after Perry's poor performance in the Presidency 5 events in Orlando in September.
"Wish it had happened a month ago," the person said.
The news of the staff additions came on the same day as reports that Perry will launch TV ads in Iowa beginning tomorrow. A Perry source confirmed that ads in the state are forthcoming but could not offer details on the timing of the launch.
A spokesman for Perry declined to comment on either the staff changes or the ads, saying that the campaign does not "discuss strategy."
Warfield was Bob Dole's 1996 presidential campaign spokesman and more recently a consultant to candidate Fred Thompson. Curt Anderson worked as a strategist for Steve Forbes in 1999 and served as the political director of the Republican National Committee under Haley Barbour.
Obviously the political gene pool is tainted. I assume we put up with it because this is what we allowed it to devolve to. These people forgot who they work for, and then they have us far too concerned with the other side to actually sit and witness the actual screw ups happening right under our noses. This is precisely why you won't see a politician take any accountability.... they can point a finger and know that we the people have chosen a side and will sit and argue about it.... just like on Capitol Hill, and still nothing is accomplished.
Politics these days is a stale mate. Regardless of whom is in "power", they always have someone to blame when things go wrong... the opposition. Normally 4 years later, we switch sides and do it again. In the mean time, everything is going to hell in a hand cart, every politician is lying their hind ends off, he said/she said.....
Every politician is holding on to the change idea, because we've demanded it. The only problem is, if there is a change in how politics is handled, most of these people would be out of a real high paying job and they certainly don't want that.... they have it easy.
Politics these days is a stale mate. Regardless of whom is in "power", they always have someone to blame when things go wrong... the opposition. Normally 4 years later, we switch sides and do it again. In the mean time, everything is going to hell in a hand cart, every politician is lying their hind ends off, he said/she said.....
Every politician is holding on to the change idea, because we've demanded it. The only problem is, if there is a change in how politics is handled, most of these people would be out of a real high paying job and they certainly don't want that.... they have it easy.
Sad, and Grim.........Why do we put up with being given a list of no goods and told to pick one and we just go along and choose who we think is the least damaging? Uh, what is wrong with that pic?
Hahahaha!!! U silly:)
Grim.... If this is the best we can do for politicians, our future is really grim.
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