Word: whouley
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...important for what it says about intra-Democratic politics than about the interparty battle. (Bush and Gore appear only in clips, in shots from behind or as off-camera voices.) As Gore's brass-knuckled campaign staff (Spacey as recount captain Ron Klain and Leary as field director Michael Whouley) urge the likes of Christopher to fight GOP fire with fire, you can see the seeds of the schism between netroots activists and Establishment Dems. The activists regard their colleagues as sellouts or wusses, too refined to throw a punch and too concerned about the mainstream media's approbation...
...result of a combination of forces that the campaign itself is only beginning to untangle. Part of it was the boring stuff - the dull, unglamorous work put in by a disciplined ground operation organized by veteran operative Nick Clemons. Late in the game, the campaign also brought in Michael Whouley, who had helped deliver the state for Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry...
...would take people who had longer histories with Kerry to bring the candidate around. On what happened to be the third anniversary of Sept. 11, three of the people Kerry trusted most--Cahill, Sasso and longtime adviser Michael Whouley--laid out the choice in its starkest terms at a meeting at Kerry's Georgetown mansion. He had to quit twisting himself in knots trying to defend the Senate votes that had put him on all sides of Iraq, and focus instead on making the case against what Bush had done there. He could no longer keep saying that he wouldn...
...Kerry called Cahill and offered her the job without an interview. On Nov. 9, he sacked Jordan. It was as if a dam had burst. Within a week, Kerry began planning to abandon New Hampshire and transfer 100 staff members to Iowa. He demanded that the reluctant Michael Whouley, a genius organizer, take over the Iowa field operation. He decided to opt out of the federal campaign-finance system, which limits the amount that can be spent in each primary state, even though he had always been a supporter of public financing. Dean, flush with cash, was going to spend...
...Kerry celebrated victory on the night of the Iowa caucuses, he paid tribute to "the magical Michael Whouley"--a name now revered among 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...