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Title: Jeb Bush Orders Across-the-Board Pay Cuts for Struggling Campaign
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Bloomberg
URL Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/a ... y-cuts-for-struggling-campaign
Published: Oct 23, 2015
Author: Michael C. Bender and Mark Halperin
Post Date: 2015-10-23 15:19:35 by nolu chan
Keywords: None
Views: 3916
Comments: 25
Jeb Bush Orders Across-the-Board Pay Cuts for Struggling Campaign Bush's advisers, under pressure from their donors and from falling and stagnant poll numbers, came to the conclusion that a course correction was essential. Michael C. Bender and Mark Halperin Jeb Bush, once a front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, is slashing pay across the board for his struggling campaign as he attempts to regain traction just 100 days before the party’s first nominating contest. The campaign is removing some senior staff from the payroll, parting ways with some consultants, and downsizing its Miami headquarters to save more than $1 million per month and cut payroll by 40 percent this week, according to Bush campaign officials who requested anonymity to speak about internal changes. Senior leadership positions remain unchanged. The campaign is also cutting back 45 percent of its budget, except for dollars earmarked for TV advertising and spending for voter contacts, such as phone calls and mailers. Some senior-level staff and consultants will continue to work with the campaign on a volunteer basis, while other junior-level consultants, primarily in finance but including other areas, will be let go, the officials said. The officials declined to say who would be removed from the payroll or provide an exact dollar figure for the savings. (A summary of the changes, provided to Bloomberg Politics by the campaign, is posted here.) Bush's advisers, under pressure from their donors and from falling and stagnant poll numbers, have been discussing ways to retool the campaign in recent days, and came to the conclusion that a course correction was essential. While recent tangles with Donald Trump have energized the campaign, Bush's senior team recognized a more fundamental set of changes was required that didn't involve dealing directly with the party's surprising—and surprisingly durable—front-runner. Analysts and rival campaigns will view the changes as a desperate act, perhaps the last one, of a man whose campaign has dropped in the polls in recent months and has remained mired in the middle of a crowded field despite a month-long blitz of friendly television ads. None of the changes deal directly with what even many of Bush's supporters say is his main challenge: The burden of trying to convince voters hungry for change to choose a man whose father and brother both served as president. Officials said the changes—the second time the campaign has cut its payroll this year—will enable them to shift more resources into New Hampshire, where the campaign has the largest operation in the state, and other states where early voters begin casting ballots in February. There will be more volunteers and surrogates for Bush, which the campaign refers to as “friends of Jeb,” on the ground to help in a state that his brother lost in 2000 and his father won in 1988. One Bush adviser told Bloomberg Politics in an interview Friday morning that the team was “unapologetic” about the changes, saying the moves were from a “position of strength.” “This is about winning the race,” the adviser said. “We’re doing it now and making the shifts with confidence. We expect to win.” [snip] - - - - - - - - - - [Poster comment] The fat lady is starting to sing for Jeb!
Bloomberg
October 23, 2015 — 9:59 AM CDT
Updated on October 23, 2015 — 10:51 AM CDT
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#1. To: nolu chan (#0)
He could save himself money & further humiliation by just quit & go home. Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
He could save himself money & further humiliation by just quit & go home. He is there to make progressive candidates look moderate to conservative.(Rubio) Reminds me of NASCAR where there teams there to block and crash if necessary other people. I think Lady Graham is another one.
I think Jeb! was there as the chosen son of the establishment. He was given a ton of PAC money from large donors. He created a large and expensive campaign (as did Walker) and he flopped (as did Walker). He did not draw enough primary campaign donations to support his extravagant campaign organization (the PAC can't help there). Donald Trump owned the news cycles and Rubio is the better, more attractive establishment candidate, especially at the debates.
Yes I agree it stated out that way but I think its time for Jeb to payback the GOP by going after conservatives and make the next heir apparent look good.
He's trying to con folks into believing that he's a fiscal conservative, by lowering expenditures. He only cheap with HIS money, the taxpayers money will flow like water down the Mississippi.
Nah, his campaign is going bankrupt like Scott Walker's did. He started out with a good pile of money from max donors and burned through it. New donors are scarce. His burn rate for the last quarter was somewhere around 90%. The campaign piggy bank is running dry.
I'm betting the adviser salaries of Babs and Laura won't be dropping.
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
Hey! He might be a GREAT POTUS yet! Because of experience about downsizing, if elected, he can order across the board pay cuts for all bureaucrats. Americans can be winners YET!
I hate this, but he'll be the front runner in about 6 months. I don't like it either. I watched MSM tonight and Hillary is a lock on the Dim side. I just report what I see the media/MSM is cramming down our throats.
God save us from candidates for important decision making political positions who campaign with the seriousness and depth of an actor performing in a role trying to win an Oscar. Next years Oscar for a performace by a shallow babbling dumbass playing the part of potential president is awarded to... Hillary? Jeb? Tune into the presentations on Oscar night to find out.
Well cutting personnel costs usually means the campaign is going to focus on bringing down the favorables for the lead candidates going into Iowa. That means firing dead weight so they can flip the salary of the negative ads experts. So expect a flurry of ads in Iowa, NH, SC and FL against Trump and Carson. No other candidates are moving in the polls. Then again this is quite interesting as no votes have been cast yet. So October 28th is the next debate for the GOP. Will JEB dump negative ads before or after? After that debate the next one is in November and another in December. I think after the November debate no one other than pundits will pay attention to the race until after the New Year. "For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly."---Romans 5:6
To be winners, they may have to elect Scruffy.
I'm down with the Scruffy deal. :)
"For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly."---Romans 5:6
Jeb! could get all the negative ads he wants using PAC money. They tried that. Trump went up and Jeb! went down to single digits. The Real Clear Politics poll of polls average: Trump 27.2
Thanks. By the numbers you posted the herd will thin significantly before Thanksgiving. I see the cut line just below Huckabee. "For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly."---Romans 5:6
But an RCP average is less of a yardstick than ever. Many polling companies have gotten out of their partnerships with major media outlets (ABCNNBCBS and FNC and WSJ and NYT and WaPo). They now are doing Facebook surveys and other non-traditional "polling". Even Gallup has stopped entirely with polling the 2016 primaries and they won't even commit to polling the 2016 general election. And Gallup invented the polling business, based on the polls first done by Gallup in the 1936 race. Now, 70 years later, Gallup isn't sure it should be bothered to poll some puny presidential race. RCP may be the consensus media yardstick for these debates but it is itself a fairly artificial measure of the race.
Isn't that because they really screwed up the 2014 elections or was it the Israeli elections?? Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!
Kind a general crisis in confidence of polling in the modern era. Nate Silver discusses the problem as well. Also, the surprise outcome of the Brit election which, like the Israeli election, was predicted infallibly to result in the defeats of Cameron and Netanyahu. Then they won in a virtual landslide. Apparently, too many people just lie to pollsters or don't tell them anything accurate, ranging from whether they'll vote to what is important to them in a candidate.
I have no doubt polls are used to determine who the next candidate to be attacked and ruined is going to be... Looks like some of the people are "finally" catching on and keeping their mouths shut about who they want to see elected... OTOH Leftards just can't help themselves so you "always" know what POS they want to see elected, they remind me of coyotes howling at the moon... Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!
We can bring America back to its roots with Scruffy!
We can bring America back to its roots with Scruffy! But wouldn't that be considered "looking up a dead dogs ass trying to see the light at the end of the tunnel"??? Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!
Incurable optimists. It's either Scruffy or Trump.
My wife keeps telling me I'm just exactly the opposite, go figure... Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!
Well, if you are not an optimist, and if you are not a pessimist, you must be a realist. ;) LOL Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Real Clear Politics does not do polling. They identify the major polls they use and average the results of those polls. ABC/Wash Post So, for example, ALL of the major polls reflect Jeb! in single digits at 7, 8, 5, 8, 8 and average his result to 7.2. It is the best available yardstick to measure how truly crappy Jeb! is doing in the polls. His campaign's financial difficulties are a good yardstick of his campaign crashing and burning. http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/23/bush-cuts-campaign-staff-where-the-money-went.html Salaried Staffs Bush $2.6M "Bush has no money. He's cutting. He's meeting today with mommy and daddy and they're working on their campaign," Trump said. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump .@JebBush is slashing campaign salaries, people making millions. If he can't manage his campaign, how can he manage our countries finances? - - - - - Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 2h2 hours ago .@JebBush had a tiny 300 person crowd at Senator Tim Scott's forum. I had thousands, and they had real passion! - - - - - Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 2h2 hours ago .@JebBush is totally lost -- he spends too much time managing the bloated staff of his campaign & not enough talking about America's future.
" The fat lady is starting to sing for Jeb! "
#2. To: Stoner, nolu chan (#1)
" The fat lady is starting to sing for Jeb! "
#3. To: Justified, Stoner (#2)
He is there to make progressive candidates look moderate to conservative. (Rubio)
#4. To: nolu chan (#3)
#5. To: nolu chan, fake fiscal conservative, big government progressive neocon (#0)
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#6. To: hondo68 (#5)
He's trying to con folks into believing that he's a fiscal conservative, by lowering expenditures.
#7. To: nolu chan (#0)
#8. To: nolu chan (#0)
#9. To: Stoner (#1)
He could save himself money & further humiliation by just quit & go home.
#10. To: nolu chan (#0)
(Edited)
Jeb Bush, once a front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination...
#11. To: nolu chan (#0)
#12. To: buckeroo (#8)
Americans can be winners YET!
#13. To: nolu chan (#12)
#14. To: redleghunter (#11)
Carson 21.4
Rubio 9.2
Cruz 7.8
Bush 7.2
Fiorina 5.4
Huckabee 4.0
Paul 3.2
Christie 2.4
Kasich 2.0
Graham 0.6
Jindal 0.4
Pataki 0.4
Santorum 0.4
#15. To: nolu chan (#14)
#16. To: nolu chan (#14)
The Real Clear Politics poll of polls average:
#17. To: TooConservative (#16)
Even Gallup has stopped entirely with polling the 2016 primaries and they won't even commit to polling the 2016 general election.
#18. To: CZ82 (#17)
Isn't that because they really screwed up the 2014 elections or was it the Israeli elections??
#19. To: TooConservative, Liberator, redleghunter (#18)
Apparently, too many people just lie to pollsters or don't tell them anything accurate, ranging from whether they'll vote to what is important to them in a candidate.
#20. To: nolu chan (#12)
To be winners, they may have to elect Scruffy.
#21. To: buckeroo, stoner, redleghunter (#20)
To be winners, they may have to elect Scruffy.
#22. To: CZ82 (#21)
But wouldn't that be considered "looking up a dead dogs ass trying to see the light at the end of the tunnel"???
SCRUFFY 2016
Why settle for the lesser evil?
#23. To: TooConservative (#22)
Incurable optimists.
#24. To: CZ82 (#23)
" My wife keeps telling me I'm just exactly the opposite, "
#25. To: TooConservative (#16)
But an RCP average is less of a yardstick than ever.
NBC/WS
Monmouth
CNN/ORC
FOX News
Total Campaign Payroll for Q3 2015
Rubio $592K
Cruz $563K
Fiorina $330K
Carson $194K Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 2h2 hours ago
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