Whitman, the former CEO of eBay who, relatively new to the GOP, has had high profile roles with the Presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney (with whom she was once a co-worker) and Senator John McCain – with the confirmation that her top two most prominent advisors are no longer engaged professionally on Whitman’s behalf.
For most of this year, Whitman has been rumored to be looking at a run for Governor, and she moved quite a bit past the rumor stage with a series of meetings around the state with GOP stakeholders, where she made it clear that she was, indeed, contemplating a run. In fact, she reached out to bring on some pretty highly respected political operatives – perhaps some of the best – in Steve Schmidt and Adam Mendelsohn of Mercury Public Affairs to give her strategic counsel as she weighed her options.
That said, going back to last summer’s Republican National Convention, I had heard rumors that Schmidt/Mendelsohn and Whitman had parted ways. When I checked into it though last month, I determined that at the time, it was just the political rumor-mill.
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December 4th, 2008 at 12:00 am
My my my…..falling stars all around….this woman is a light weight with no experience in public policy and political consultants consultants are licking their wounds…..NEXT BATTER!!!!!!