Palin’s Bold Campaign To Reform Washington Staffed Entirely By BushCo Insiders From Washington
By: Blue Texan Wednesday September 10, 2008 7:00 pm
Traveling with her and working with the press are
Tracey Schmitt and Tucker Eskew...Schmitt worked on both Bush campaigns and ran the Republican National Committee communications shop before leaving a year ago to work for a biopharma company.
Eskew is a longtime GOP strategist who was a top aide in the first Bush campaign and later worked in the White House before co-founding his own public affairs firm.
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They’ll be joined at times by
Nicolle Wallace, the former White House communications director who has served as a senior adviser to the McCain campaign since spring.
Mark Wallace, Nicolle Wallace’s husband and another veteran of Bushworld, will lend a hand to Palin by prepping her for the lone debate against Biden, Oct. 2 in St. Louis.
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Offering policy counsel will be
Steve Biegun, a seasoned foreign policy specialist who did stints as a senior member of Bush’s National Security Council and as national security adviser to former Sen. Bill Frist, when he was Senate majority leader. ...
Back at the campaign’s Arlington, Va., headquarters,
Maria Comella will work with reporters. She worked for Bush’s reelection campaign in 2004 and was a top spokeswoman in Rudy Giuliani’s primary effort. Another Bush veteran and press aide,
Ben Porritt, is largely focused on going after Biden, but will also assist the Palin effort. ...
Then there is the campaign’s Last Frontier satellite:
Taylor Griffin, another Bush administration veteran who had been focusing on doing press on economic issues, has been detailed to Alaska to oversee the campaign’s operation there as reporters from across the world descend on Anchorage, Juneau and Wasilla to probe a political figure who is turning out to be anything but an ordinary vice presidential nominee.
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