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Senator Clinton's campaign staff shakeup is still a work in progress, and it's a bigger deal than even I had realized. New details about Solis Doyle's firing (and it turns out it was a firing) and today's exit of deputy campaign manager Mike Henry are below. But first, let's talk about the gigantic race element in all of this, because that's what is really blowing my mind.

To start with, I hadn't even considered the ethnicity of Patti Solis Doyle or Maggie Williams, and I'm betting that none of you did either. When I wrote about Solis Doyle's connection to Norman Hsu back in September, it never even crossed my mind. And when I wrote on Sunday that Williams was replacing Solis Doyle, I didn't think about Solis' race either. What the hell does the race of the campaign manager matter?

Apparently it matters a great deal. The New York Post reveals that Clinton is losing the support of the Hispanic Caucus because she fired "the most prominent Latina" in her campaign. Support among Hispanic voters was the key to Clinton's success in Nevada and California. She's depending on it in Texas next month, too. But it looks like Hispanic superdelegates are having second thoughts, all because Clinton fired Solis Doyle:

"Apparently, loyalty is not a two-way street," [Steven Ybarra] wrote. "Latino superdelegates like myself . . . will have cause to pause."

Ybarra told The Post yesterday that the loss of Solis Doyle, a child of Mexican immigrants, just weeks before the Texas primary, where 36 percent of the population is Hispanic, was "dumb as a stump."

The New York Times' blog reprints the letter New York assemblyman Ruben Diaz sent to Clinton. His letter also recasts the firing as a betrayal of Hispanic supporters, but it goes much further and delivers a threat directed at President Clinton. One commenter wrote the other day to say, "Get the popcorn. This is getting good." They were right:

It is hard to understand how the Hispanic community that has been there to keep your campaign alive could remain in your corner when the first Hispanic woman to serve as your presidential campaign manager has resigned from her post.

[...]

Although we are inclined to believe that Patti Solis Doyle did resign, we would like you to realize that it will be very troubling to many if somehow we later find that she left her post under pressure because of the recent primary losses your campaign suffered. If so, we will have many questions about why a Hispanic woman who has helped to build Latino support for you throughout the nation would have been the one to take the blame and resign from her post instead of others involved with your campaign, including former President Clinton, who have caused serious problems and embarrassing situations for your campaign.

Did you notice what was missing from the letters? There is no mention that perhaps, as campaign manager, Solis Doyle was properly dismissed following the poor showing in the past month (and keep reading for information on Solis Doyle's failures during the past seven years). It apparently doesn't even occur to these writers that Solis Doyle should be evaluated based on anything other than the color of her skin. She's Hispanic and Clinton wants the Hispanic vote, therefore, she cannot be fired. I have only one thing to say to that: these people should be embarrassed to show their faces in public.

There is another elephant in the room and I didn't even realize it until I sat down to write this post. Maggie Williams is black. Who knew? For that matter, who cares? But every article I've read about this has mentioned it, so I guess it's damned important for you to know that Clinton swapped out a Hispanic woman for a black one in her campaign's top spot. Women and minorities hardest hit, I guess.

Both letters claim to accept the Clinton campaign's protestations that Solis Doyle is staying on as an adviser and that this was an amiable decision. (Ignore, I guess, that Solis Doyle said she was quiting to spend more time with her very young children.) But, as you see in the second letter, that explanation is not going to fly for long and it's going to alienate even more voters when it is revealed that Clinton lied to them.

Which brings me to the latest: the Atlantic's Joshua Green has a must-read, inside look at Solis Doyle's role in Clinton's senatorial and presidential campaigns. Green recounts Solis Doyle's numerous failures over the years and claims to have been informed of the firing by campaign insiders. But the real creme filling is the revelation that it took several other staffers' decision to quit their jobs last week which forced Clinton to act. A taste:

Solis Doyle, who began as Clinton’s personal scheduler in 1991 (and who, as it happens, coined the term “Hillaryland”) was Clinton’s alter ego and was installed in the job specifically for that reason. Her performance in Clinton’s past races and especially in this one reflects all the good and the bad that the alter-ego designation carries. I’ve always felt that the most revealing thing about Solis Doyle is her oft-repeated line: “When I’m speaking, Hillary is speaking.” It is revealing both because it is true and because it conveys—and even flaunts—an arrogance that I think is the key to understanding all that has gone wrong for the Clinton campaign.

As the man says, read the whole thing.

One last bit of Clinton campaign news: Deputy Campaign Manager Mike Henry has announced his resignation. Henry joined the campaign after managing Virginia Governor Tim Kaine's victory in 2005. In May of last year an amusingly prescient memo he wrote, arguing that Clinton should skip the Iowa caucuses because she'd lose, was leaked to the press amid a quiet civil war between Clinton staffers. Now he writes:

Our campaign needs to move quickly to build a new leadership team, support them and their decisions and make the necessary adjustments to achieve the winning outcome for which we have all worked so hard for over a year now.

The emphasis is mine and represents what I believe is the truest part of Henry's note. Clinton's campaign is still in breakup mode.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 02:52 AM



Comments

1

Rats leaving a sinking ship.  Also, could Hillary!?$&#* be any worse a manager or judgment of character (although I suppose one needs character to be a judge of it)?  Does she have no skills whatsoever, other than being a brutally overambitious bitch?

These and other questions addressed next week on As the Hill Burns.

Posted by: Hermit Dave at February 13, 2008 03:42 AM (Tk5HT)

2

So what you're sayin' here is that the only politician left running who's not an utterly pathetic douche-bag on both personal and managerial levels, is an ultra-liberal pandering dubiously messianic figure who goes to a church that apparently preaches some form of black supremacy?

I think we need to rewind ...do the whole frickin' thing over again.

...this ain't even darkly ironic humour anymore.

Posted by: davis,br at February 13, 2008 03:43 AM (q4usA)

3

Let’s start a conspiracy theory.

An article at The Atlantic (also above) indicates that Solis Doyle was Hillary!’s campaign manager in 2006, but was quickly recognized to be a problem that no one within the Clinton campaign could solve. Solis Doyle seems to have been the cause of most of the staff turnover in the Clinton campaign, and more than a few very senior staffers had tried unsuccessfully to have Solis Doyle removed.

Further, Solis Doyle failed to understand the new method of fundraising, burned through $30 million during Hillary!’ Senate reelection campaign, leaving the Presidential campaign substantially under-funded. This was also not a particularly well-kept secret.

 

Barak Obama, a sufficiently skilled politician (vs. Alice Palmer, 1995), decides to run for President, and realizes that his main opposition for the nomination is Hillary!

Doubtless, the internal friction between Solis Doyle and the rest of the Clinton crew was at least known to Democratic Party insiders, so it seems likely that Barak Obama and his staff knew of this situation too.

Back in 1995, Barak Obama releases his memoir/fable, "Dreams of My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance". Looking only at the attitudes and viewpoints he expresses, and accepting them at face value (since he wrote them), we see some basic motivations of Obama.

As per this link:

"Sunday, 07/22/2007, Obama was in South Florida to address La Raza."

It seems quite likely that there were private discussions.

 

What are the chances that the Obama Campaign took advantage of the Clinton situation and arranged, on 07/22 if not earlier, to have one or more Hispanic political groups keep just enough support to / pressure on Hillary! to retain Solis Doyle?

 

It seems unlikely that Solis Doyle "threw", or was pressured to "throw, or was unwittingly helped to "throw", Hillary!’s campaign, as Solis Doyle seems to not have the skill set, but the possibility exists.

It looks more like leaving Solis Doyle in the position, and applying just enough support / pressure to retain her as long as possible was all that was needed.

Removing Solis Doyle in June 2007 might have changed Hillary!’s campaign dramatically; leaving Solis Doyle in seems to have caused it to rot and fail from within.

Hillary!’s now in a bad delegate position has to face some ugly race politics: fire a minority campaign leader and risk the wrath of a reasonably large minority voter bloc and many minority superdelegates.

This seems to add up reasonably well so far.

But the silence of the many Clinton supporters seems puzzling; could they have not seen this coming?

Is the worst yet to come? Stay tuned . . .

Posted by: Arbalest at February 13, 2008 04:55 AM (/7xu6)

4 Hillary to make all her remaining campaign speeches in ebonics!

Posted by: ricpic at February 13, 2008 08:03 AM (wgcEH)

5

Did you notice what was missing from the letters? There is no mention that perhaps, as campaign manager, Solis Doyle was properly dismissed following the poor showing in the past month (and keep reading for information on Solis Doyle's failures during the past seven years). It apparently doesn't even occur to these writers that Solis Doyle should be evaluated based on anything other than the color of her skin. She's Hispanic and Clinton wants the Hispanic vote, therefore, she cannot be fired. I have only one thing to say to that: these people should be embarrassed to show their faces in public.

Silly, silly Gabe.  You really should have gotten that CT of the skull after your accident. For decades Democrats have been telling the poor and down-trodden that their plight is someone else's fault and that with the help of government, everything would be put to right and that they would never, ever be held accountable for their actions.  That life would be better, and that as long as they had a (D) on their voter registration card, then they would have life long employment in the government.  Imagine their shock and dismay when one of the most prominent Democrats out there, actually held someone accountable.

Of course it could be that Hillary! is losing because of Hillary!  If this is the case, then it would be perfectly consistant to seek to lay blame elsewhere.  And hence the sacking of Ms. Doyle.

Posted by: Darth Randall at February 13, 2008 08:25 AM (oLULt)

6

It apparently doesn't even occur to these writers that Solis Doyle should be evaluated based on anything other than the color of her skin.

Breaking: Race card revealed as steel boomerang.  Dems continue throwing.

Posted by: sherlock at February 13, 2008 08:29 AM (ojW85)

7 It sounds like Hillary! expects her staff to swear an oath of omerta.  Don't be surprised if they find Solis Doyle's body floating in the Potomac soon.

Posted by: Steve L. at February 13, 2008 08:34 AM (hpZf2)

8

Be a damn shame if identity politics reared its ugly head and bit Clinton in the ass.

 

Who am I kidding!? Wouldn't be a shame at all. It would be well deserved, is what it would be. When you split people up in to groups and attempt to cater to one over the other, you end up walking a tight rope--a very high, swaying-in-the-wind tight rope--with no net.

 

If this keeps up, her royal nastiness will have a tough time keeping her seat in the Senate.

Posted by: joated at February 13, 2008 09:14 AM (8nB5X)

9 You know what would be better than identity politics biting Clinton in the ass?  (And there's an image I'm going to have to scrub out of my brain with a wire brush!)

What would be better would be if Obama got burned by identity politics.

Posted by: Trimegistus at February 13, 2008 09:44 AM (Nw96V)

10

It apparently doesn't even occur to these writers that Solis Doyle should be evaluated based on anything other than the color of her skin.

Well of course! This is exactly what the Dems have been repeating over and again for 40 years: if anything bad happens, it's because whitey hates your brown (or black) skin! Who could be more "white" than Hillary!?

It's nice to see the serpent they've created bite their lefty asses, what's the MSM gonna say about that? Condem the Dems? Chastise the coloured? Or our AoSHQ favorite - deafening silence.

Posted by: 5Cats at February 13, 2008 10:39 AM (Knaf0)

11

it's going to alienate even more voters when it is revealed that Clinton lied to them.

You know, sentences like that make me laugh each and every time I see them.

Repeat after me:

People don't care about Clintons lying to them.

People don't care about Clintons lying to them.

People don't care about Clintons lying to them.

They lie where the truth would serve better and have for as long as I've known about them, circa 1991. 

If I felt like getting all agitated before lunch, I could list probably 50 lies off the top of my head and nobody, but nobody, cares.  And what bothers me most about their lies is that they're so damn blatant.

Take the first one I knew about, "I didn't inhale". That's so blatant a lie that it accuses me of being stupid. If I had tried that when I was 16 and got caught by my mother, I would still be grounded. I would have been in trouble for smoking, in trouble for lying and in the most trouble for accusing her of being stupid with such a lame-ass lie.

Posted by: Veeshir at February 13, 2008 10:45 AM (zXUuJ)

12 What an abortion.

Identity politics.This is what we'll have 365 days/year x 4 if either Hillary or Obama is elected.

Posted by: stace at February 13, 2008 10:49 AM (4x6iT)

13 Hillary is in my S. Texas city today, I think. Lucky us; we're going to be seeing a lot of her for the next few weeks.

Posted by: stace at February 13, 2008 10:58 AM (4x6iT)

14

 It apparently doesn't even occur to these writers that Solis Doyle should be evaluated based on anything other than the color of her skin.

And just about every public university in America operates this way regarding admissions too. The problem for them is, they haven't quite figured out a way to allow minorities to not receive grades which would prevent them, remember many shouldn't be there in the first place, from dropping out at such high rates.

 

Posted by: Jay at February 13, 2008 11:11 AM (BNlV7)

15 I feel less trepidation for my declared vote for McCain the more the election year advances. Unfortunately its nothing that McCain has done and all what his expected opponents have done.

Posted by: polynikes at February 13, 2008 11:21 AM (m2CN7)

16

Ditto to that Polynikes. It is wonderful to watch the Dems, especially Hillary, get trapped in the nets they sewed. I have no sympathy whatsoever for Democrats. They can sleep in the bed they made. I will sleep in the Republican bed, but edged very close to the right side, letting McCain know I have a headache.

Posted by: John F Not Kerry at February 13, 2008 11:30 AM (4gHqM)

17 As bad as McCain would/could/may be, Hillary can not be allowed back in the White House.

Posted by: Techie at February 13, 2008 11:34 AM (AV8Z6)

18 Truth is Hillary was right in firing Solis, because he was as useful as a asshole on my elbow. This was the result of Hillary thinking she was invincible and inevitable. So she dug her own grave and fell in it.

Posted by: GTBurns at February 13, 2008 11:36 AM (iInYK)

19

Be a damn shame if identity politics reared its ugly head and bit Clinton in the ass.

 If by a shame you mean it'll be awful when I break a rib falling out of my chair from laughing hysterically, then, yes, it will be a shame.  Also if I run out of popcorn.  *adds that to grocery list*




Posted by: alexthechick at February 13, 2008 11:37 AM (SHHaV)

20 Don't be surprised if they find Solis Doyle's body floating in the Potomac soon.

Or possibly Obama.  Vince Foster tells me that would guarantee a win.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at February 13, 2008 11:58 AM (ERV3B)

21 Hillary?  Loyalty? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Hillary's defintion of loyalty is, 'what does the bitch have on me, and what do I have on her?'

Posted by: richard mcenroe at February 13, 2008 12:05 PM (AZziM)

22

GTBurns, I would love to have an asshole on my elbow. Think of all the cool things you could do with it.

Some icehole crowds me on the Metro, I shit or at least fart on his suit.

The possibilities are endless. Hopefully when Obama! becomes president and stem cells bring Chris Reeve back to life, they'll be able to put an asshole on my elbow.

Posted by: Veeshir at February 13, 2008 12:33 PM (zXUuJ)

23 Maggie Williams is black. Who knew?

Errrr...any of us who lived through 8 years of the Clintons in the Oval Office.

How old are you?  20?

Posted by: Warden at February 13, 2008 01:53 PM (rZ5uY)

24 This was a great post.  Thanks.

Posted by: The Comish (sic) at February 13, 2008 02:00 PM (n8HhO)

25 How do I get this grossly incompetent but loyal gig?  I could sit in an office and read all day.  I could give myself a stupid nickname like "King Kong".  I could burn through rich Democrat's political bribes like it's nobody's business.  I can think of all sorts of ways to say, "I don't remember".  It probably wouldn't even be a lie because I'd spend all my time reading/spending money/intimidating staffers.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 13, 2008 02:04 PM (pKBEW)

26

How do I get this grossly incompetent but loyal gig? 

Legacy system support.  Its put my kids through college while letting me surf the interweb tubes all day long..

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