El curioso caso de John Weaver

The Daily Caller le dedica un perfil de cinco páginas a John Weaver, el polémico estratega jefe de la campaña de Jon Huntsman:

The Republican campaign and consulting world is divided into two categories: those who passionately hate John Weaver and those who ardently defend his political expertise. The debate has turned increasingly relevant as voters wonder why Jon Huntsman, the presidential candidate and former Utah governor, continues to keep him on as senior strategist to his flailing presidential campaign.

Weaver himself is like a house divided, a Republican-turned-Democrat-turned Republican. He throws himself into campaigns only to lose, to be pushed out, or to leave under questionable circumstances. Weaver consistently over-hires, yet doesn’t raise enough money.

And now more than ever, he’s finding himself on the receiving end of harsh criticism from current and past colleagues. For many who know Weaver, the bottom line is that working with him seldom ends well for the candidates or other staffers.

“Now only four months into it, nearly a dozen highly qualified, talented, and dedicated senior staffers have all quit, in large part, if not totally, because of the way they were treated by one person, John Weaver,” campaign and White House veteran Spencer Geissinger told The Daily Caller.

“That behavior would have never been tolerated on any of the Bush or Reagan Campaigns, and I worked on all of them dating back to 1985,” added Geissinger, who is part of a long and growing list of veterans let go by the Huntsman campaign. “Maybe that’s why they always won and McCain didn’t, and Huntsman sadly won’t.”

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