Kerry Fires Top Campaign Staffer

[Terri]

Kerry Fires Top Campaign Staffer

By Jimmy Moore
Talon News
November 11, 2003

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), one of nine candidates running for the 2004 Democrat nomination for president, fired his campaign manager on Monday after experiencing a noticable drop in the polls in recent weeks.

"I have decided to make a change in the top of my campaign leadership," Kerry wrote in an e-mail.

Kerry said in a statement he would be making a change by replacing his campaign manager, Jim Jordan, with fellow Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy's chief of staff, Mary Beth Cahill.

Jordan has been assigned to serve as a senior political strategist in "this critical phase of the campaign." However, Jordan has not yet decided whether he will accept or decline the much less important position in the Kerry campaign.

More (http://www.gopusa.com/news/2003/november/1111_kerry_campaign_ trouble.shtml)

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http://www.gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laff.gif THE WRONG GUY GOT FIRED HERE! *JOHN KERRY IS THE ONE WHO NEEDS TO GET FIRED. *HIS FLIP-FLOPPING ON A NUMBER OF ISSUES HAS MADE HIM APPEAR INDECISIVE AND EVEN DEMOCRATS RECOGNIZE THIS. *HE NEEDS TO PACK IT IN - HE IS DONE.

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Generally, shakeups at the top levels of a campaign signal the imminent collapse of that campaign. That would pretty much leave Dean as the only candidate with a chance to win the primary, unless all of Kerry's supporters flocked en masse to one of the other candidates.