Apparently there are no hard feelings:
"I'm leaving with the highest respect and admiration for the mayor [DeStefano]," Jacklin said. "It hasn't diminished at all." Said campaign spokesman Derek Slap: "Michele has been a strong, supportive, creative and wise leader in our operation. We are ahead because we are the campaign about ideas and Michele has led our efforts to keep ideas in the forefront." (Bass)Anything I say here will probably get me in trouble--but I'm thinking she got while the getting was good. Could be something else entirely. I don't know. That's just what I think. We'll see if anyone else follows.
What's certain is that this is a loss for the DeStefano campaign.
Source
Bass, Paul. "Jacklin Leaving DeStefano Camp." New Haven Independent. 25 May, 2006.
7 comments:
"We are ahead because we are the campaign about ideas and Michele has led our efforts to keep ideas in the forefront."
Wow, the DeStefano campaign really has their heads buried in the sand. They lost the Democratic party's nomination, and yet they are still walking around telling the press that they are ahead?
Does anyone wanna give Derek Slap a clue?
Don't forget that the marching band that he had at the convention was from a New Haven public school.
CTOctaneBlue- I was at the convention and I saw no Malloy staffers forcing people to change their votes. How can you force someone to change their votes anyways? It's your choice who you vote for!
What I DID see at the convention were DeStefano supporters trying to vote for delegates who were absent! Those cities had their votes challenged and changed as a result, because of this.
TSCowperthwait- actually the marching band was anti-climatic. They just walked through the Expo Center one time, and only the drums played. It was rather quick and anti-climatic. They didn't even play a song -- they just had some drums. I never really understood why the horns didn't play at all -- the horn players just marched along while holding their instruments
TSCowperthwait-- Yeah, I don't know if any Malloy staffers were doing that, I personally didn't see it, but I'm sure that every single candidate who has ever run for any kind of office in the world and had an opponent has done that. You don't think that DeStefano people were doing that? That's how all candidates across the board get votes.
Malloy's tent didn't look any larger or "more visible" than DeStefanos to me. They looked equal...
Mmmm Jodi Rell-
Oh, I wasn't there on Friday. I was only there on Saturday. Both tents looked equal on that day.
*shrug*
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