Michael Whouley Returning To The Kerry Campaign (Huge News)

[DrFunkenstein]

WASHINGTON - John Kerry is adding some of the Democratic Party's most experienced strategists to his team for the stretch drive against President Bush, including hometown allies from Boston and top advisers of former President Clinton.

Michael Whouley, the Boston operative who helped salvage Kerry's candidacy in Iowa, is returning to the Democratic presidential campaign to help strengthen Kerry's state-by-state political organizations and to provide general strategic advice. Cahill said he had held similar jobs in the past three Democratic presidential campaigns.

On Election Night in 2000, Whouley was among the first strategists to recognize that then-Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites) was closing the gap on Bush in Florida, and sent word that the candidate should not concede. Bush won the presidency more than a month later, when the Supreme Court stopped a recount in Florida.

In 2003, when Kerry decided to focus his ailing campaign in Iowa, he asked Whouley to travel the state and help John Norris finish putting a precinct-by-precinct organization together. Kerry won Iowa's caucuses, and Norris now heads the campaign's national "field" operations — its state-by-state organizing effort.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=9&u=/ap/kerry_campaign_help

John Kerry's Secret Weapon: Michael Whouley

Michael who? Unless you're a hard-core political junkie, you've probably never even heard the name. But within the Democratic political world, Whouley is an almost-mythical figure. Revered as one of the party's fiercest and most talented ground-level organizers, Whouley is widely credited with saving Al Gore's foundering campaign in Iowa and New Hampshire in the 2000 primaries against Bill Bradley.

Whouley often seems like a kind of Keyser Soze figure--his fearsome powers are the stuff of legend, but the man himself is rarely seen.

http://www.command-post.org/2004/2_archives/009601.html



Ben Affleck: the anti-Michael Whouley.

[bluestateguy]

1. I don't know, Bob Mullholland is pretty good too

He's a California consultant who in 1992 uncovered Republican Senate candidate Bruce Herschenson's penchant for visiting strip clubs. Actually, he was a regular who may have had some kind of a VIP membership. That 11th hour discovery stopped his momentum cold and Boxer won.

[JohnKleeb]

2. Thats great to know, Whouley is good

I read the article about him in mid July btw but thanks for the rehash, and yes lol Ben is the anti Whouley.

[DrFunkenstein]

4. Not Rehash, Whouley Had Left The Campaign

But he's just now returned to see it through at a state-to-state level. I imagine he will help organize some of the swing states.

[JohnKleeb]

5. ahh thanks though

He'll be of great help, just one of the miracle people Kerry had with him in Iowa. Thanks btw, you get the best news and pictures available generally.

[incapsulated]

3. Yesss!

Thank you, Jebus! :)

[JI7]

6. he says he "LOVES" john kerry

[JohnKleeb]

7. Whouley yeah Ive read that

I didnt knwo Kerry had this kind of guy working for him, he's a dedicated guy, glad hes back.

[JI7]

9. they have known each other for over 20 years

reading what whouley says about kerry you can tell he really does love him a lot and loves working for him. and of course kerry has a lot of respect for him also.

[coloradodem2005]

8. How is Affleck the Anti-Whooley?

n/t

[oasis]

10. I wonder if Whouley is........no nevermind.

;-)

[WiseMen]

11. Well!! Folk who noticed something lacking in the campaign were right.

Why the hell was Mike not on the payroll all this time. He was
the whip in IOWA, making the right calls and helping John break out
of the middle-of-the-road campaign ethos that existed prior.

[Francine Frensky]

12. Where had he gone, anyway??

I didn't click on the link, but that was the first question that popped into my head. What's he been doing for six months?