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Politics : Wesley Clark -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (546)	10/7/2003 8:12:45 PM
From: Don Green	Respond to of 1414

Glenn Thanks, now lets seen which Clinton crony takes over. Don

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (546)	10/7/2003 8:44:43 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1414

Clark's Campaign Manager Quits === nytimes.com By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ASHINGTON -- Wesley Clark's campaign manager quit Tuesday in a dispute over the direction of the Democratic presidential bid, exposing a rift between the former general's Washington-based advisers and his 3-week-old Arkansas campaign team. Donnie Fowler told associates he was leaving over widespread concerns that supporters who used the Internet to draft Clark into the race are not being taken seriously by top campaign advisers. Fowler also complained that the campaign's message and methods are focused too much on Washington, not key states, said two associates who spoke on condition of anonymity. Spokesmen for the campaign declined to comment. Fowler has been at odds with communications adviser Mark Fabiani of California and policy adviser Ron Klain of Washington. All three are veterans of Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign, part of a large group of Clinton-Gore activists hired by Clark as he entered the race Sept. 17. From the start, there has been tension between the campaign's political professionals and the draft-Clark supporters, many of whom consider computer-savvy Fowler their ally. Fowler has complained that while the Internet-based draft-Clark supporters have been integrated into the campaign, their views are not taken seriously by Fabiani, Klain and other top advisers, many of them based in Washington. He has warned Clark's team that the campaign is being driven from Washington, a charge leveled against Gore's campaign in 2000 even though its headquarters were in Tennessee. Clark's headquarters are in Little Rock, Ark. Fowler, son of former Democratic Party chairman Don Fowler, was quietly installed as chairman of the campaign in the first days of the bid. Fowler's departure is the latest blow for a campaign that has gotten off to mixed reviews. National polls put Clark near the top of the nine-person field and he raised more than $3 million in the first two weeks of his campaign, a sum that surpassed what several rivals raised in three months. However, he has been criticized for flip-flopping on whether he would have supported the Iraq resolution, and his commitment to the Democratic Party has been questioned. Clark voted for Presidents Reagan and Nixon, praised both Bush administrations and had not registered to vote as a Democrat in his home state of Arkansas before entering the race. The high number of Clinton-Gore officials on his campaign, including longtime Clinton advisers Eli Segal and Bruce Lindsey, has caused Clark's rivals to question whether the former president is quietly pushing Clark's campaign, a charge strongly disputed by the candidate and Clinton's associates.

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (546)	10/7/2003 11:53:08 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 1414

I'm not entirely surprised that a campaign team put together in a hurry is going through some growing pains. There will be bumps in the road. Clark will go over them and then keep on going toward his final destination -- 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (546)	10/8/2003 7:38:10 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 1414

SMALL LOSS _____________________________________ by Franklin Foer The New Republic 10.08.03 When your campaign manager bails on you, there's no good way to spin it. The Washington media will read it as an omen of doom. But Donnie Fowler's decision to quit the Clark campaign might not be the disaster that newspapers have portrayed. For starters, there's Fowler himself. From what I understand, he was always a stopgap boss--an experienced campaign technocrat, but not an electoral genius. And he's hardly run a perfect ship. He didn't get Clark's party registration papers down to the country registrar. His press operation has been anarchic. According to reports from Little Rock, he was an excessively bossy character, especially with regards to his elders. Fowler, alas, hasn't quit quietly. He has turned his departure into a commentary on the Clark campaign. Apparently, he regards the operation as too Washington-centric and unwilling to tap the Draft Clark grassroots movement. This argument is ridiculous. Clark has only a few months to whip out a winning campaign. He can't afford to run his operation as an exercise in radical decentralization and deliberative democracy. Nor he can he afford to fumble by handing important tasks to inexperienced underlings. One last point. Yes, there are lots of Gore people around Clark. But why is that such a bad thing? They haven't been trying to force the template of the Gore campaign on the man. And they haven't sent their candidate to dwell on K Street begging for donations. In fact, I think they've done a pretty good job, as magazine covers, endorsements, and $3.5 million in donations show. posted 11:44 a.m. tnr.com