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Zorro

(18,697 posts)
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 11:28 AM Aug 2023

DeSantis Replaces Campaign Manager in Major Shake-Up

Source: New York Times

As Ron DeSantis tries to put his campaign back on track, he is replacing Generra Peck with James Uthmeier, one of the most trusted aides in the governor’s office.

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has replaced his campaign manager, Generra Peck, in the latest shake-up in his weekslong attempt to reinvigorate his struggling bid for the White House.

The chief of staff in the governor’s office, James Uthmeier, one of Mr. DeSantis’s most trusted aides, will be replacing Ms. Peck, the campaign confirmed in a statement. Mr. Uthmeier previously served as general counsel to the governor and worked in the Trump administration. The Messenger earlier reported the move.

Ms. Peck, who will stay on as the campaign’s chief strategist, had drawn heavy criticism from Mr. DeSantis’s allies and donors after heavy spending led to a fund-raising shortfall. In response, the campaign had to lay off more than a third of its staff and start holding smaller events — a leaner operation more suited to a candidate who is trailing well behind the front-runner, former President Donald J. Trump.

In 2022, Ms. Peck oversaw Mr. DeSantis’s overwhelming re-election as governor. But she had never run a presidential campaign. The changes are the third major shift in the structure of the DeSantis campaign in recent weeks, after the layoffs and the departure of other senior members of his early 2024 team.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/us/politics/desantis-campaign-manager-generra-peck.html?unlocked_article_code=9yWbqOYQdZhJ6oAZvt3KcREvMuEJeEpz7VFSFFSvFvrB1XibuU_ULQEz7HdiIGF7F9U1GbMdrE-1cs1HJY5Rf2n-LZXDCi2YaQGxyTJN7_rndXI1kuiMt5KmNev_u6X-ahbNUVjcFNtV50hlnec_Ly-dJBp1TTwOeQcUoRpwbz4qPLjnhkUHT6BlXK6d27xO--zIN-mfLXVYYT0RyjjRQ6bbW3003kLeQxBV2IGgmyicKntZ0uaR88pTKINYA0NQNl9ijAaskbo2Iiwx9-AIZrsE1X5I19rRYhT579OdmZjbpnXZ0u1NNExSFIHXS3-LtIGexe9vArRtemNzGWPV9DdrDdroy8rvCDyCpB0dPxb0QW9B&smid=url-share



Gotta keep polishing that turd...
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DeSantis Replaces Campaign Manager in Major Shake-Up (Original Post) Zorro Aug 2023 OP
Little d found the culprit dalton99a Aug 2023 #1
Actually it would be funny if he would win the nomination and choose someone with the last name of cstanleytech Aug 2023 #18
lol & that stupid vest.. is that Kevlar? Cha Aug 2023 #22
I bet Generra Peck is delighted to be off the hook for that garbage candidacy. swag Aug 2023 #2
Ron, your problem isn't your campaign manager. It's you. Ocelot II Aug 2023 #3
The best way to fix his campaign is to fire himself. mountain grammy Aug 2023 #4
Yup. No one likes him or his anti-woke bullshit either. Initech Aug 2023 #6
Fuck you Desantis! Worst governor ever! Initech Aug 2023 #5
The ppl he let go 10 or so days ago, were quietly rehired into his state office to perform the same PortTack Aug 2023 #7
Huh. How did you learn this? truthisfreedom Aug 2023 #8
Here ya go PortTack Aug 2023 #21
Is that legal in Florida? yardwork Aug 2023 #9
Hmm, tell us more Brother Buzz Aug 2023 #14
More lipstick! Kid Berwyn Aug 2023 #10
The toothpaste won't go back into the white go-go boots C_U_L8R Aug 2023 #11
Rearranging deck chairs on the Satanic Warpy Aug 2023 #12
Have a feeling his birdbrain wife is way too involved - thank goodness. NoMoreRepugs Aug 2023 #13
"Kill it, Ron. KILL IT!!! Show them you are a killer" "Okay, let's SLIT SOME THROATS!!!" dalton99a Aug 2023 #16
Ron Desantis has the personality of a pancake. Ray Bruns Aug 2023 #15
Pancakes are much more appealing. Dulcinea Aug 2023 #23
The undead campaign never ends, it just reboots. AZLD4Candidate Aug 2023 #17
AGAIN? Loser. Novara Aug 2023 #19
I'm surprised anyone wants to work for a loser. It doesn't look good on a resume for when you get Lonestarblue Aug 2023 #20

cstanleytech

(28,477 posts)
18. Actually it would be funny if he would win the nomination and choose someone with the last name of
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 02:14 PM
Aug 2023

Moore as his running mate LOL

Initech

(108,787 posts)
6. Yup. No one likes him or his anti-woke bullshit either.
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 11:43 AM
Aug 2023

Except for idiotic conspiracy theorist podcast hosts, and nobody cares what they think.

PortTack

(35,820 posts)
7. The ppl he let go 10 or so days ago, were quietly rehired into his state office to perform the same
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 11:45 AM
Aug 2023

Duties for his campaign. Now instead of his campaign paying them, the FL tax payers are now footing the bill!

He is truly an awful person.

C_U_L8R

(49,393 posts)
11. The toothpaste won't go back into the white go-go boots
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 12:23 PM
Aug 2023

This campaign is functionally over.

Warpy

(114,616 posts)
12. Rearranging deck chairs on the Satanic
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 12:51 PM
Aug 2023

I'll be glad when that excrescence on the ass of the body politic has been excised completely.

I just hope he lives long enough to see all his hard work undone, drag story hour in every public library, the number of which will have doubled because people will know the cost of religious ignorance, the schools teaching history instead of feel good propaganda, public works in Fkiruda auned at bettering the lives of people instead of the convenience of the wealthy.

(That has to be one of the longest links I've ever seen)

Dulcinea

(10,102 posts)
23. Pancakes are much more appealing.
Wed Aug 9, 2023, 08:11 AM
Aug 2023

DeathSentence has all the appeal of a rectal thermometer.

Lonestarblue

(13,487 posts)
20. I'm surprised anyone wants to work for a loser. It doesn't look good on a resume for when you get
Tue Aug 8, 2023, 02:40 PM
Aug 2023

replaced in a couple of months for the 4th reboot.

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