The Associated Press (AP) is reporting that Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential candidate Michele “Krazy” Bachmann is losing her entire New Hampshire staff – all five of them.
Bachmann spokeswoman Alice Stewart disputed reports of a staff shakeup, saying: “We have a great team in New Hampshire. We haven’t been notified that anyone’s left the campaign.”
Still, Stewart reportedly said she hadn’t been able to reach the top New Hampshire staff to confirm they were still on board. She said she had reached some junior staffers who didn’t say they were leaving.
Meanwhile sources close to the White Star Line are denying there’s anything wrong on board the RMS Titanic, and no one should assume that just because they can’t contact the ship that anything’s gone wrong.
Campaign finance reports show that Krazy, who has fallen in polls and struggled to raise money, had (what a coincidence) five paid staff in New Hampshire as recently as late September.
The once GOTP presidential headliner has largely ignored the first-in-the-nation primary state in recent months. She has been focused on Iowa and South Carolina, where her social conservative message has more appeal.
Krazy hasn’t visited New Hampshire very often since launching her presidential campaign in June, and since mistaking it for Massachusetts (that whole darned “shot heard round the world” mistake) and Stewart acknowledged a greater focus on Iowa, where Bachmann was born and where she won the GOP’s presidential straw poll in August.
According to Bachmann aides, her Iowa staff consists of 11 paid members, including her national political director who relocated to Iowa this fall. The staff is among the larger teams in the leadoff caucus state; a state where she’s polling in fourth place behind Cain, Romney and Gingrich. Someone please stick her with a fork.
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