We Are Starting to Feel Kinda Bad About All This

She is big. It’s midterm elections that have gotten small.

Two Harris staffers confirmed that campaign manager Glenn Hodas; field coordinator Pat Thomas; communications director Chris Ingram; political director Brian Brooks; and deputy field coordinator John Byers left the campaign. Jim Dornan, who was Harris’ Senate campaign manager before he left last fall, said he confirmed the resignations through a close contact within the campaign.

Dornan happily explains just why so many former Harris staffers are bashing her on the records: “She’s fine for the initial stage and then she falls into her normal pattern of behavior…. Treating staff like garbage, coming up with crazy ideas and strategies. She creates such hatred for herself because of the way she treats people that at some point, they just don’t care.”

“Crazy ideas”? Katherine Harris? Yeah, right. You’re just upset that you lost your chance to ride a winning campaign to victory. Yeah, because she’s gonna win this one for Florida, and—

Jesus, this is just depressing now.

Five top staffers leave embattled Harris campaign [Brandenton Herald]

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Harris Campaign Director Always Wanted a Pool

How many people quit the Harris campaign this week?

Virgina blog Too Conservative reported yesterday that campaign director Glen Hodas was out, along with three unnamed others. Hotline reported soon after that spokesman Chris Ingram and field director Pat Thomas were out too. Then Harris sent out a statement that said, in part:

Contrary to earlier reports, Harris has only accepted the resignation of Chris Ingram.

Which happens to make it sound like Thomas and Hodas are chained up in her office basement, forbidden from leaving. We’re imagining a sort of climax of Sunset Boulevard situation — “Nobody leaves a Senator… that’s what makes a Senator…” — and we’re hoping for wry, posthumous narration from Mr. Hodas explaining the whole thing. Harris’ bizarre European husband makes a very good Erich von Stroheim, too.

So, in other words, if you have any information not gleaned from campy black comedies, we’d love to hear it.

Katherine Harris’s Campaign Staff to Resign [Hotline]
Update: Harris Announces Staff Resignation [TooConservative]

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