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December 04, 2006

The Daily Troika: Bayh's Cabinet / Miller Time In South Carolina

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Get your Bayh sources while they're hot! For reporters and interested junkies, here's a look at the kitchen cabinet of Sen. Evan Bayh, David to Obama/HRC's Goliath.

  • Tom Sugar -- Bayh's Senate chief of staff and gatekeeper. Was former CoS for Ex-Rep. Jim Jontz (D-IL). Also served as Bayh's chief policy planner in the state house. Ran his '98 campaign.

  • Linda Moore Forbes -- Bayh's deputy chief of staff; will play a major role in setting policy. Was dep. chief of staff to John Edwards in the '04 general election. Was senior political aide in Clinton White House.

  • Anita Dunn -- will serve as senior strategist; was comm. dir for Bill Bradley's 00 run; is former adviser to Sen. Tom Daschle.

  • Nancy Jacobson -- Bayh's finance architect; will supervise fundraising and donor management and serve as a strategist. Former DNC finance director.

  • Dan Pfeiffer -- comm. dir; former dep. mgr for Sen. Tim Johnson; former senior aide to Tom Daschle.

  • Paul Maslin -- pollster; was Howard Dean's campaign pollster in '03

  • Marc Farinella -- mgr for late Sen. Mel Carnahan's re-election in '00; currently dir. of Bayh's All America PAC. Led Camp Bayh training seminars.

  • Scott Pastrick -- is President/CEO of BKSH and Assoc; senior government and political experience with Democratic administrations dating back to the Carter admin.

  • Richard Gordon -- one of Bayh's oldest friends; he was a senior aide in the state house and chats with Bayh several times each week.

  • Other names include Ron Klain, ex-CoS to VP Al Gore, Indianapolis mayor/ex-Bayh CoS Bart Peterson, counselor Thurgood Marshall, Jr, and finance dir. Kory Mitchell.

    • Jason Miller, campaign mgr for Gov. Mark Sanford's successful re-election, has been brought into government as deputy chief of staff for coalitions. That role gives him an important vantage point from which to watch the 2008 presidential race play out: he'd getting paid to keep in touch with leaders of the most prominent conservative factions in the state. Miller would probably have helped George Allen in SC if Allen were running for President. Sanford is known to be sympathetic to Sen. John McCain, but he has not endorsed him.

    Brian Lawson's NH Presidential Watch blog has news on upcoming visits by Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM) and Gov. George Pataki (R-NY).

    KrustyKonservative names Karen Slifka, the BC04 midwest pol. dir, as a senior McCain adviser, and has news on several other key Iowa hires as well. McCain opens his first IA office today in Urbandale.

    Is this really Gov. Mitt Romney's first overseas trip since Eric Appleman started tracking them? The subject matter accords with what we've been hearing: Romney wants America to wake up to the twin foreign policy problems of economic competition and military threats from certain Asian countries. [MARC AMBINDER]


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