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To: John Carragher who wrote (32910)	3/4/2004 8:36:41 AM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 794040

Considering the Democratic Convention Veteran Massachusetts political operative Jack Corrigan -- a former prosecutor and a major player in the 1988 Dukakis campaign -- is the Kerry campaign's choice to be its point man for the Boston convention, several campaign and Democratic operatives told CNN Tuesday. "He is the campaign convention guy," a senior Democratic source said. The nominee traditionally takes control of the convention from national party planners, and in this case it is viewed as perhaps the easiest challenge for the Kerry camp because the Democratic convention is in Boston and Corrigan is just one of an abundance of seasoned Democratic operatives in Massachusetts to draw on for help. The biggest political challenge is considered to be planning a convention in Kerry's best interests while accommodating the interests of the state's senior senator, Ted Kennedy, and keeping peace with Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and Massachusetts unions. In addition to Corrigan, the Boston-based Dewey Square Group is likely to be intimately involved in this effort. Michael Whouley, with Dewey Square, is already a senior adviser to the Kerry campaign and his partners have considerable experience in Massachusetts and national Democratic politics. Facing the Democratic Party Kerry and several of his top advisers are said to be adamant that Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe take a much lower public profile if Kerry locks up the nomination. One senior Kerry adviser said the senator and his top aides were furious when McAuliffe accused President Bush of being "AWOL" during his days in the Alabama National Guard. "Let's just say that was a surprise we could have done without," a senior Kerry adviser said. The senior adviser said it would be "very messy" to try to replace McAuliffe in the middle of the campaign. This and another senior Kerry campaign source also credited McAuliffe with early convention planning and fund raising. "Our issue is the message and we need to control that," the second source said. The debate within the Kerry campaign is whether to simply ask McAuliffe to take a lower media profile and have the campaign arrange surrogate appearances or whether to ask a senior Democrat to join the DNC leadership team as "General Chairman" or some title to that effect. Three campaign aides said no decision had been made. copied off cnn web site