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...resignation Thursday of Gore campaign manager Tony Coelho comes after weeks of speculation about his continuation in the job, for which he was selected last year when the veep's campaign was floundering. While he is credited with bringing discipline to the operation, he has also been a lightning rod for criticism. Gore has asked Commerce Secretary William Daley to replace...
Your story about the Gore campaign's chairman, Tony Coelho, "The Trouble with Tony" [NATION, May 15], did not accurately reflect the value he has afforded the Vice President and the campaign. It also painted a misleading picture of his relationship with all of us at the D.N.C. As I painstakingly reported to one of your writers, we believe Tony is a tremendous asset to our joint goal of making the best Vice President in America's history our next President. Tony's no-nonsense approach has helped focus and motivate us to achieve our goals. The troops here...
...West Virginia--many in the party are worried about whether Gore's campaign team is ready for the general-election brawl. Renewed infighting and finger pointing have brought fresh doubts about the cadre that is taking over the national campaign machinery--doubts largely centered on Gore campaign chairman Tony Coelho, a former California Congressman with a 20-year history of generating both intense loyalties and animosities. "It's not something you worry about," Coelho declared in an interview last week. "You've got decisions to make, and you make them. The campaign can't be run by 100 outsiders...
This is not the first time Coelho's management has been questioned. He transformed the Gore campaign several times last year, banishing longtime advisers, firing many members of the campaign high command. His brash style proved to have been right for the moment: Coelho helped hone a sloppy, unfocused operation into one that dispatched Bill Bradley with relative ease and brought the Vice President within striking distance of Bush in the national polls...
These days, though, Coelho's ratio of mishaps to successes seems to be on the rise. Consider the Elian Gonzalez matter. Although Gore had distanced himself from the Clinton Administration from the outset of the controversy by saying it should be handled in family court, sources say his top advisers--primarily Coelho, but with backing from message gurus Carter Eskew and Bob Shrum--urged him to take a higher profile by calling for permanent residency for the Cuban boy. Coelho was out front in arguing that the move would bolster Gore's chances of carrying Florida--the nation's fourth...