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Huckabee Campaign Chair: No Booze, No Donuts
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ABC News' Kevin Chupka Reports: As ABC News confirmed Friday, former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., announced some new political muscle for his campaign during an afternoon press conference in New Hampshire.
Ed Rollins, Ronald Reagan's 1984 national campaign director officially joined the Huckabee campaign as national campaign chair and senior advisor.
"Ed Rollins has served Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan and has held significant positions in a number of White House staffs including running the 1984 campaign for President Ronald Reagan," Huckabee said. "It was the largest landslide campaign in history of the United States where 49 states were carried by President Reagan."
Rollins joked to reporters Friday, "This is going to be a unique campaign for me. This is the only campaign I've ever been in where there are no donuts and no booze," referring to Huckabee’s strict diet.
No stranger to controversy, Rollins might also be a familiar name because of his notorious stint as Christie Todd Whitman's campaign manager during her successful 1993 run for governor in New Jersey.
After her victory, Rollins was quoted in a Time magazine article to have secretly paid black ministers and Democratic activists to stay home on Election Day leading to Whitman's slim victory over then- incumbent, Jim Florio.
"We went into black churches and we basically said to ministers who had endorsed Florio, 'Do you have a special project?' And they said, 'We've already endorsed Florio.' We said, 'That's fine -- don't get up on the Sunday pulpit and preach. We know you've endorsed him, but don't get up there and say it's your moral obligation that you go on Tuesday to vote for Jim Florio.' " said Rollins, according to the Nov. 1993 Time article.
Rollins also claimed in the same article that Republicans offered compensation to Democratic "key workers" to "go home, sit and watch television."
More recently Rollins has been an active part of the Senate campaigns of New York's KT McFarland and Florida's Katherine Harris. That campaign proved tumultuous and, according to a May 2006 Wall Street Journal article, after failing to attend a meeting where Harris announced bringing in "new blood," Rollins soon quit the campaign.
On Friday Rollins said this would be his last campaign.
"Over the last six months I've watched [Huckabee] build his campaign, and build his communication skills, to inspire people to where I think we are in a very exciting place," he said.
"This is my last campaign; my wife will divorce me, my daughter won't talk to me and I'm too old. I still don't know if I'll survive without the booze and the donuts."
December 14, 2007 in Giuliani, Rudy, Thompson, Fred | Permalink | User Comments (12)
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Rollins is a GOP scumbag,and the fact Huckabee would have him work for him shows his true colors. Many Christians are having the wool pulled down over their eyes by the Huckster.
Posted by: AJ | Dec 14, 2007 6:38:53 PM
Huckelbee is getting down and dirty with a master of deceit.
Posted by: Joe Blow | Dec 14, 2007 8:09:18 PM
He could have done worse at least he's been part of some winning campaigns.
Bob Shrum now theres a jink...for the dems.
Posted by: Richard | Dec 15, 2007 1:08:21 AM
I guess we can look forward to some good slandering, name calling, and outright lies regarding other peoples records from the camp of the "Good Christian". Why am I not shocked that Huckabee would turn out to be scum too?
The entire political process in this country is warped!!!!
Posted by: dk | Dec 15, 2007 1:41:16 AM
"... at least he's been part of some winning campaigns."
Yup, kind of like Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds.....
Posted by: dk | Dec 15, 2007 1:42:52 AM
Mike make sure Ed understands our Moral Compass. I know what kind of man you are, you've preached at my church in Memphis. I don't know about Ed Rollins--keep it clean. Don't get in the mud with the rest of them! The Lord is in control not those people you are running against and in the end it will all have been for His honor and glory.
Posted by: Anita | Dec 15, 2007 7:47:36 AM
Mr Rollins has been a pundit on CNN, the Lou Dobbs show. CNN an the MSM seem to be pushing Gov Huckabee, an this morning I read exerpts from an article thats coming out, where Gov Huckabee slams the President. That sounds like he might have been consulting with Mr Rollins for some time. From reading some of the comments, he might have made a slight mistake, in that the folks that he wants to vote for him, still like the President. We shall see.
Posted by: homjett | Dec 15, 2007 8:49:45 AM
I think that Ed Rollins will offer the expertise to take the Huckabee campaign to the next level and the nomination. I remember all the negative and cynical comments made about Ronald Reagan when he ran for president. Hillary Clinton is no angel and neither is her campaign.
Posted by: Larry Motsinger | Dec 15, 2007 8:54:12 AM
dk - " Why am I not shocked that Huckabee would turn out to be scum too?" ---- Can you at least wait until he does something wrong before you declare him a scumbag.. And while you are at it, would you mind reposting your comments where you called Hillary and Bill scumbags for what they have done? --- Oh wait.. you didn't SAY anything bad about them did you???
Posted by: givemeabreak | Dec 15, 2007 12:24:58 PM
Ed Rollins is a genius and talk against him on this blog can be attributed to one thing~ jealousy. To bad the rest of the campaigns do not have a brilliant mind like Rollins working on them. Huckabee will be propelled to this top with this wise choice of Rollins as National Campaign manager!
Posted by: kramer | Dec 15, 2007 6:32:42 PM
Ed is real scum. If Mike is hiring this type of key staff, then he will be fighting dirty, and in a not Christian manner at all. Mike, is it all a fraud this holier than thou routine?
Posted by: LawyerTom1 | Dec 15, 2007 10:15:24 PM
It is about time we have some common sense and a moral regular guy kije Huckabee
Posted by: Char | Dec 31, 2007 12:19:06 PM
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