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A GOP operative who won plaudits for bolstering Mitt Romneys recent debate performances is not being retained by the frontrunners campaign, an apparent victim of internal tensions over staff receiving too much credit for the candidates comeback, POLITICO has learned.
Brett ODonnell, a former top aide to Michele Bachmann, has been paid for his work assisting Romney in the crucial Florida debates but was not offered a formal role with the campaign as he expected, according to Republican sources familiar with the situation.
After ODonnell was identified last week as advising Romney and then highlighted in subsequent news accounts as being one of the reasons behind the former Massachusetts governors improved debate performances, Romney campaign officials grew uneasy.
ODonnell received phone calls late last week from two Romney advisers campaign manager Matt Rhoades and informal adviser Charlie Black where it was made clear that there was severe discomfort about how his role was being portrayed in the media and that he ought to tread lightly
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/72433.html#ixzz1lN2eDXlY
gateley
(62,683 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Capitalist raiders live for firing people.
dimbear
(6,271 posts)ashling
(25,771 posts)gateley
(62,683 posts)regresses back into the stuttering, clueless, namby pamby debater he was previously.
Raine
(30,540 posts)than the employer.
Sedona
(3,769 posts)yeah, that would be a great way to run a presidental administration
Zalatix
(8,994 posts)Let go because you did TOO good a job. Wow.
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)An all-too-familiar Republican tactic.
Look for a book deal from Brett O'Donnell in the near future.