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...Paul Manafort, a Washington lobbyist who had run the convention for Dole, picked up the flag after Sipple left the field. The picture was grim. After Labor Day, Bob Dole was worse off than when he started. By early September, according to his own poll, Dole was actually 6 points behind where he was in August. Manafort drafted a 20-page memo dated Sept. 5 titled "Dole Campaign Strategy Document," in which he wrote, "The strategy for the campaign must be finalized now...Otherwise, we will be adrift without a compass...
...Long-Range Planning Group From: Paul Manafort Re: Agenda Items for Meeting on Thursday 9-5 Date: September...
Still, Sipple was surprised when Reed called him in last Wednesday and told him the campaign was bringing in reinforcements and Republican strategist Paul Manafort would be fully in charge. Sipple and Murphy chose to quit rather than lose a stripe. Reed has turned to a new team of admakers--Alex Castellanos, Chris Mottola and Greg Stevens--to make $45 million worth of ads between now and November. "The news this week," says Wayne Berman, Jack Kemp's campaign director, "is that Dick Morris is not replaceable but Don Sipple...
Because of their proximity to power, the hired guns in Bush's posse are the most controversial. Charles Black, the unpaid senior political adviser to the Bush campaign, is a partner in the public relations firm of Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly, which represents a rebel faction in Angola; the governments of Greece and Nigeria; and the Pacific Seafood Processors Association, which battled the Commerce Department earlier this year for the right to process a larger share of the $800 million Alaskan pollack catch. James Lake, Bush's unpaid deputy campaign manager, is a partner in the public relations firm...
...weeks, the former G.O.P. chairman's public recantation has seemed to echo in political circles. The Sawyer/Miller Group, a New York City-based political consulting firm, which recently lured former Reagan political field marshal Ed Rollins, has sworn off political work. Even Atwater's old firm, Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly, has made a similar move...