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Hoping to halt that habit, John Sasso, a hard-nosed party veteran, has taken up residence on Kerry's campaign plane. Sasso's job is to help target Kerry's wandering message and keep him from going wobbly. Sasso, who oversaw the beginning and the end of Michael Dukakis' ill-fated 1988 campaign, was sent aloft, as one ally put it, because the campaign lacked a Kerry peer who could tell the candidate when and where to get back in line. Although his odds are longer now, Kerry has plenty of time to turn it around, and he can take...
...three impossible decisions to make," says John Sasso, Kerry's old Boston political friend who is his liaison to the Democratic National Committee. "If he'd made the wrong choice on any one of them, he wouldn't be here today. I don't think two out of a hundred politicians would have been able to make all three correctly under such intense pressure--but those are the sorts of situations where John is at his best." That is, of course, the party line among John Kerry's friends. He is great when his back is against the wall...
...Democratic insiders as one of the party's most gifted organizers but someone who got his start in Kerry's world as a streetwise kid from Dorchester, working precincts in Kerry's successful 1982 race for Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor. And Kerry has turned to another old Boston hand, John Sasso, once chief of staff for former Governor Michael Dukakis. After effectively securing the Democratic nomination in March, Kerry installed Sasso as his eyes and ears on--and therefore the de facto head of--the Democratic National Committee (D.N.C.). Though Kerry continues to talk frequently with D.N.C. chairman Terry McAuliffe...
Although Gore's trial attorneys have taken pains not to criticize the judge, Sasso was less reticent...
...Basically, they didn't want to work Thanksgiving Day," is how Sasso sums up that argument...