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Romney's Former Political Director Joins Freedom's Watch
There's been a bit of a shuffle lately at Freedom's Watch, the billionaire backed conservative attack group.
Early this month, Bradley Blakeman, a former Bush White House official who'd been the group's president, left the group under something of a cloud. Unnamed conservatives grumbled that the group had not "figured out its role in the conservative/Republican universe," and there were whispers that some had been unhappy with his leadership.
But today the group announced that Carl Forti will serve as the groups' Executive Vice President and "will lead the group’s 2008 issue advocacy campaign." That means, presumably, that Forti will have some say of where that $200-250 million goes.
Forti comes off of a stint as Mitt Romney's political director -- and before that, the National Republican Campaign Committee's spokesman. Forti left the NRCC, where he was for more than seven years, after the 2006 election -- of which he confidently said earlier that year, "Incumbents don't get beat because there's a bad national environment" (d'oh).
When asked whether the group had found a replacement for Blakeman, Freedom's Watch spokesman Jake Suski said that was an "ongoing transition process." So in other words, no.
Comments (4)
Let's hope Carl Forti is as successful in this job as he was in his last!
March 25, 2008 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is a personal opinion and may not be widely held. Watch some of the legal counsel on the list of Romney's legal advisers and legal advisory committees. Some of them appear to be allegedly linked with war crimes, White House misconduct, subsequent intimidation to block war crimes investigators, and evidence destruction within the WH email servers: They are allegedly former WH counsel with personal interests in burying rendition, FISA, and POW abuse evidence; and evidence of their alleged malfeasance and frivolous legal statements on these legal issues. They could be implicated in war crimes and adjudicated with the death penalty. They are allegedly desperate.
March 25, 2008 3:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
I suppose Executive Vice President Carl Forti has no comment at his time at tne NRCC - and no idea what happened to the audits?
And really, c'mon, Executive Vice President? How big a staff does this Freedoms' Watch thing have to merit an EVP?
I'm President of my room, you know.
March 25, 2008 3:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
I sincerely hope Forti spends all that easy, sleazy money as worthlesslessly as he did while he was helping Romney flounder.
Never has so much money been spent for so few results, (except maybe for the war in Iraq.)
This reminds me of how Democrats kept hiring Shrum to lose campaigns, you would think that putting Forti in charge of an even larger fortune than the one he spent at Romney's expense, might seem a bit careless, considering his most recent failures.
But the CEO's among us always know best, huh?
March 26, 2008 11:01 AM | Reply | Permalink