Huntsman se hace con un hombre de Barbour

Race42012.com hizo una lista con los siete principales operativos de campaña que habían firmado con el comité de acción política de Haley Barbour antes de conocerse que el Gobernador de Mississippi no sería candidato a Presidente. Ahora el interés está en ver quién se hace con los servicios de estas personas. Jon Huntsman se ha hecho con uno de ellos.

(...) When Haley Barbour announced he wasn’t running for President, the big question quickly became: where will his campaign staff go? Specifically, Barbour made seven rather marquee hires during the run-up to his aborted bid that I am hereby dubbing “Haley’s Seven”:

•Mike Dennehy (NH) – McCain’s campaign director (2000) and political director (2008)
•Paul Young (NH) – McCain’s outreach coalition director (2008)
•Jim Dyke – former RNC Communications Director; adviser to George W. Bush, Bill Frist, and Rudy Giuliani
•James Richardson – former RNC Online Communications Director; worked on Dan Coats’ 2010 campaign, blogs at RedState
•Rob Collins – expected to be Haley Barbour’s overall campaign manager; former top aide to Eric Cantor and staffer for Norm Coleman
•Warren Tompkins (SC) – political consultant for Romney (2008), Bush-Cheney (2004), and Reagan-Bush (1984 and 1980)
•Sally Bradshaw (FL) – campaign manager for both of Jeb Bush’s gubernatorial campaigns, worked on Romney’s FL campaign (2008)

As you can see, these seven folks represent a wealth of campaign talent spread over numerous different areas – from early states to establishment support to online presence. Where these seven folks will end up has been the topic of many postulations and guessing games since Barbour released them.

This morning comes news that the first one of them has signed on with a new suitor: James Richardson is going with Jon Huntsman. (...)