Romney Shuffles Some Key Staff
As his campaign expands, Ex-MA Gov. Mitt Romney is giving two key members of his staff some new portfolios. Josh Ginsberg, currently the campaign's deputy political director for voter contact, has been promoted to national field director.
The current national field director is Julie Teer, who joined Romney's campaign when it was a sparsely funded political action committee. Teer will become deputy finance director for affinity groups.
Is this a shake-up? A Romney aide, confirming the changes, says no. Both Teer and Ginsberg, the aide said, are moving to positions that best fit their talents. Ginsberg, a disciple of Bush-Cheney strategist Matthew Dowd, helped to craft CA Gov. Arnold Schwarzenneger's voter contact strategy. Field directors are responsible for building voter contact organizations -- that's statewide campaigns -- in the early primary and caucus states. This cycle, the states will include -- at least -- Florida and California. Those states will require extensive microtargeting. Ginsberg is also a veteran of the RNC's strategy shop.
The aide said that no further staff changes were expected. [MARC AMBINDER]
A side note: Ginsberg's father, Ben Ginsberg, is the campaign's chief counsel.
All the money and staff changes won't be enough for Mitt to remove the "flip-flopper" tag. He has had every position on every issue. He manufactures a new position on every issue based on which state and office he is running for.
You are very misled my friend. To remove the flip-flopper tag Romney only has to let the truth prevail. The only stance he has changed is abortion.
He has always been against discrimination toward gays, but knows that marriage should only be between a man and a woman.
He supports the second amendment but only when it comes to self-defense, hunting, and recreation. He does not support weapons that have been designed to kill people.
He believes in low taxes, but did not sign the no tax pledge as governor because Massachusetts was in $3B debt and he did not know if simply cutting funding would be enough.