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Bush can tweak his message on a day to day basis, cut costs around the margins and even reduce or reallocate staff. But he remains committed to the large campaign infrastructure he has built to run a national campaign, staff members say. What’s changed is the desire to avoid any appearance of extravagence…..the campaign’s early state organizations do surpass those of most rivals, Bush’s other major investments — in paid advertising and a policy shop that’s churning out his speeches — have yet to pay real dividends….

Bush is also pitching serious policy proposals. He has close to 10 staffers working in his campaign’s policy shop

The “wonky”, “serious”, “smart” “technocratic” Republican campaign is making “major” investments in his policy shop. That major investment is under 10 full time employees. I am betting it is eight or nine people including the 23 year old making $23,000 to buy binders, collate TPS reports and fetch coffee. It costs the Bush campaign under $1 million a quarter (my bet is under $300K/quarter) or the price of a mid-level fundraising manager.

Truly the soft bigotry of no expectations of policy competence is at play here.

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  1. 1.

    Chris

    I am betting it is eight or nine people including the 23 year old making $23,000 to buy binders, collate TPS reports and fetch coffee.

    You think they pay their coffee-fetching intern?

  2. 2.

    dmsilev

    “Close to 10” employees? I assume that means “7 or 8”.

    Or maybe Bush is counting in binary and it really means “2”.

  4. 4.

    dmsilev

    Hang on. We’re forgetting the extensive blog-troll operation. Surely, that accounts for at least half of the policy shop’s staffing.

  5. 5.

    Culture of Truth

    Concur with above. ‘Close to 10’ is 7 kids with no clue. Probably family friends and assorted grifters.

  6. 6.

    dmsilev

    @efgoldman: Well, it can’t be binary otherwise ‘2’ isn’t defined. If it’s ternary (base 3), the answer is 11. In base 4, the answer is 10. In all higher bases, ‘4’.

  7. 7.

    jnfr

    Bush would have a lot of staff whether he really needs them or not, because it’s his due.

    If he is throttling back he’s worried, I think.

  8. 8.

    Mike in NC

    Sad loser JEB! has a plan to cut taxes for the very rich that will result in massive economic growth. No, not really. The usual bullshit about tax cuts for the very rich. Fucks the rest of us with no job growth. Every Bush has resulted in a terrible recession.

  12. 12.

    22over7

    It’s going cost so much for any of the clowns to win the primary that whoever gets the nom is going to be at a severe disadvantage coming in to the general. Sure, money will start flowing then, but field offices and national ad campaigns are expensive and take time to build. Dems have the advantage there.

  13. 13.

    benw

    Bush is also pitching serious policy proposals. He has close to 10 staffers working in his campaign’s policy shop

    Can I just say how fucking stupid this is? If you have serious policy proposals, people talk about the proposals. If you are full of shit, they count your staff members.

  19. 19.

    Renie

    @Doug R: I doubt he makes that much at all. RtR has done a disappearing act or maybe he drove off to Mexico with the BRINKS TRUCKS.

  20. 20.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @benw: @efgoldman: Staff matters. I have seen info indicating that HRC has 90+ people in Iowa including at least on staffer in every county. Sanders is supposedly at 50+ on Iowa. Both are taking the ground game seriously and working on it. On the GOP side, crickets…

  21. 21.

    cmorenc

    Over in the Trump campaign, he only needs a couple of intern staffers at most to write his position papers.

    HERE’S the entirety of his foreign policy position paper (that’s paper, not papers):
    1) Negotiate TERRIFIC deals with foreign countries.
    2) Get along with foreign leaders, especially Putin, make TERRIFIC, tough deals with them.
    3) Extend principle #2 to Chinese leaders. Get along with them, but make TERRIFIC tough deal with them to stop unfair trade and currency manipulation to bring jobs back to America.
    4) Erect border wall with Mexico, force Mexico to pay for it, and round up and load all illegals aboard buses and deport them over the other side of that border fence, which BTW will be a HOUGGGE fence.
    5) Donald Trump will accomplish goals #1 through #4 with force of personality and his TERRIFIC HOUGGE ability to make favorable deals. Does Chuck Norris need to specify further details before he starts invincibly setting things right? Neither does Donald Trump.

  26. 26.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Mike J: The numbers I saw weren’t specific. The point being made was that HRC already had each county covered, Sanders was on his way to it, and none of the R were even close.

    @efgoldman: Agreed. HRC is definitely following the Obama model and it looks like Bernie is working on it.

  30. 30.

    Mike J

    @efgoldman:

    They learned from the best. It’s how Obama won both the nomination and the general.

    I remember when Howard Dean was sucking up all the oxygen and John Kerry very quietly went around vacuuming up organizers in Iowa. And then it was such a surprise to everyone who hadn’t been watching what was really going on.

    (I worked on two different campaigns that year, including Kerry, but none in Iowa.)

  31. 31.

    gf120581

    @Omnes Omnibus: Hillary has much of Obama’s organization at her disposal now, so makes sense. Hey, if it works, you stick with it.

    As far as JEB! goes, well, I guess the BRINKS TRUCKS are not really doing it anymore.

  35. 35.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @gf120581: I agree. Also, she has done this under the MSM radar. While people were wondering where she and her campaign were all summer, they were recruiting the top campaign staff and organizing on the ground. To me, this is the most impressive thing that she has done so far. In 2008, Obama worked out a plan to garner the most delegates at the convention and he stuck with it. HRC, so far, seems to have adopted that example.

  38. 38.

    seaboogie

    Speaking from my own perspective, at first I was a bit gleeful at all of the crazy piling into the Klown Kar, and then kind of amazed and horrified at how their pandering to the throbbing id of the right and the moneyed patrons just exploded into a free-for-all of baseness, immigrants, blacks and upscaling their war on women.

    What this seems to have done though, is allow the left to really speak out to address this, and FSM bless Bernie for his role in pushing the issues like he has.

    Here is a link to a Digby post about re-emerging liberalism from Salon:
    http://www.salon.com/2015/10/15/the_resurrection_of_the_liberal_how_conservatives_tried_to_destroy_american_liberalism_and_how_it_came_back_from_the_dead/

  39. 39.

    Amir Khalid

    @dmsilev:
    You’re the scientist here; but as I remember, in binary less than 10 is either 1 or 0. But whether it’s binary or base 10, that sounds like damn few for a serious presidential campaign. I wonder how many Bernie and Hillary each have.

  40. 40.

    PhoenixRising

    Politico can’t find the spell checker, or realize that the red squiggle means ‘extravagance’ has a different number of ‘a’s than your first instinct. I trust their detail orientation in the round ‘almost 10’ staffers, too.

    Because they’re on the ball, which is why they gave this space to an ad for the narrative ‘JEB! is the serious one among the bozos piling out of the clown car’.

  41. 41.

    Chris

    @Anoniminous:

    Incredibly lazy. Their “establishment” candidates especially give the impression of people who think they have a divine right to the throne and are getting really cranky that they have to even pretend to humor the peasants in order to sit on it.

    After all, Reagan consecrated the White House as Republican property thirty five years ago, for Pete’s sake.

  42. 42.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    Dunno. WaPo from March:

    Presumed Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush is turning to a Wall Street veteran to serve in a top policy position — and possibly to run his policy shop, once he formally launches a campaign.

    The National Review reported late Wednesday that Bush is set to hire Justin Muzinich to serve as campaign policy director. Bush aides say he’s only joining the team in a part-time role for now, but will eventually serve in some kind of senior policy position, possibly as policy chief.

    The policy chief usually plays a major behind-the-scenes role, but it could be a more prominent position in a Bush campaign, given the wonky nature of the former governor, who expects aides to fully brief him on issues, eagerly absorbs as much information on policy as possible and often enjoyed sparring with reporters covering his two terms about the finer points of his policy proposals.

    Muzinich didn’t respond to requests for comment. The hire comes amid a flurry of new faces in Bush World, including Scott Jennings, a Kentucky-based operative and veteran of the George W. Bush administration, who is expected to serve as the campaign political director.

    On Wednesday, aides also announced that Bush has hired two more staffers in New Hampshire: Rob Varsalone, who has worked for Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), and Nate Lamb, who served as field director for Republican Scott Brown’s failed Senate bid last year. They’ll join Rich Killion, who will serve as Bush’s state director.

    Bush’s apparent decision to hire Muzinich comes after he also hired April Ponnuru, a well-known conservative policy expert, to join his team. And Bill Simon, a former gubernatorial aide and current Walmart executive, has been helping to solicit policy ideas and potential hires.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if Jeb? thought he could pay these big name “experts” $50k a month because of all the money he expected to be swimming in.

    Sure, the gofer would be an unpaid 20-something, but I can’t imagine that these Wall Street and corporate MotU types would be working for free, or even $50k a year.

    Hillary spent $38M on salaries, benefits, etc., in her 2008 run…

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  44. 44.

    p.a.

    @Anoniminous: If he tries to ‘McCain’ Trump á la Shrub Trump won’t go fetal and whimper like Johnny did. That would be great theater. I just don’t know how long Trump keeps up with his vanity project.

  45. 45.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @benw:

    Ta. Low-hanging fruit. (Edit: ¡Jeb!, I mean, not Omnes.)

    Just catching up here; I went to see Benedict Cumberbatch in Hamlet tonight, got home about half an hour ago, and am still feeling emotionally drained. Incredible performances by everyone, and an excellent production.

  47. 47.

    Arm The Homeless

    @Some guy: a sinking ship raises all crustaceans.

    Did anyone catch the video of some tweaked out whiskey-tango spitting on protesters at yesterday’s T-rump shin-dig?

    The natives are getting impatient for their very own Mulberry-Kristallnacht

  48. 48.

    Brandon

    I think you are missing the point. The article claims his “policy shop” are writing his speeches. Those are actually speechwriters. Anyone who would confuse speech writing with policy making or actually think that speech writing constitutes policy making is not to be taken seriously. Speeches are to announce policy, not to set policy itself. And in fact, we sadly suffered 8 years of that style of garbage under his brother. Jeb! is a clown and I think there is probably a very good reason why he couldn’t even get into Yale as a legacy, unlike his brother. He is actually the dumber one and the prospect of him becoming president scares me quite a bit.

  50. 50.

    TG Chicago

    Snark aside, I have no idea how many people are “supposed” to be in a campaign’s policy shop. How many does HRC have? How many did Obama or Romney have in 2012?

    benw makes a completely valid point, but still: without comparison, I can’t get into ripping Bush over this.

    (especially since there’s plenty other things to rip into Bush about)

  53. 53.

    trollhattan

    @I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
    After the revelations of Carli(tm) stiffing her campaign staff and vendors after the ridiculous demon sheep senate run, I hope her current crew are being paid cash up front, or bitcoins or quatloos or something.

    Funny how she’s vanished the last week or so. Was it fun while it lasted, Carli(tm)?

  54. 54.

    benw

    @SiubhanDuinne: Hamlet is exhausting. I love Hamlet so much. Second only to Richard III (tragedy category). When Hamlet found Ophelia dead was one of the most crushing scenes I’ve watched.

  57. 57.

    NotMax

    pitching serious policy proposals

    Translation: relabeling the same warmed-over “fluff the rich, screw the rest” proposals and “86 all regulatory authority” pap from the oughts and 90s, pulled from think tank shelves.

  59. 59.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @TG Chicago:

    Snark aside, I have no idea how many people are “supposed” to be in a campaign’s policy shop. How many does HRC have? How many did Obama or Romney have in 2012?

    The true and vague answer is enough. The issue regarding staffing is the one I mentioned above – staffers on the ground. Right now, HRC has a person in every county in Iowa and Sanders is working towards that goal. No one else is close. That should say something.

  65. 65.

    Ridnik Chrome

    @redshirt: I’m a native Chicagoan (Logan Square and East Lakeview) now living in Queens. Most New Yorkers I’ve met have good things to say about Chicago. They can be a little condescending, but in a good-natured sort of way. Chicagoans, on the other hand, have a serious inferiority complex where New York is concerned. Anything New York has, well Chicago has something just as good, if not better, to hear Chicagoans tell it.

  68. 68.

    SinnedBackwards

    Jeb?ster has a fool-proof way to double the growth rate, and just maybe he thought it up all by hisownself. He’s going to outsource our statistics to China.

  69. 69.

    trollhattan

    O/T Sometimes you can tell you’re doing it right by the enemies you gain.

    Gun groups on Thursday promised a forceful response to Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed ballot initiative to cut down gun violence in California, which includes background checks for ammunition purchases and a ban on the possession of large-capacity magazines.

    “Protecting civil rights and lawfully owned personal property from police state gun grabbers like Gavin Newsom has to be everyone’s first priority,” Firearms Policy Coalition President Brandon Combs said in a statement. “If Gavin Newsom wants to declare war on law-abiding gun owners and Second Amendment rights, we’re certainly going to bring the fight to him.”

    The initiative, co-authored by the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, was formally unveiled Thursday at a press conference outside San Francisco’s 101 California St. office building, where a mass shooting took place in 1993.

    Thinking of graphic treatments for a tshirt saying “I’m a gun-grabber, baby!”

  71. 71.

    TG Chicago

    @Omnes Omnibus: I certainly see your point about staffers in Iowa, but that seems to be a separate issue from policy shop staff (unless I’m missing something).

    I can even see how local staff is far more important than a policy shop, given that one can easily outsource policy positions to a think tank or whatever. As others have indicated: when is the last time Republicans came up with a new policy? Probably when the Heritage Foundation came up with a healthcare reform plan. Republicans seem to regret that now.

  72. 72.

    Peale

    @Omnes Omnibus: I don’t get this at all. It’s like Republicans are suddenly like Democratic candidates from 1980. Like Ted Cruz’s plan is to mobilize millions of disaffect white voters. If that’s his plan, he’d better be setting up shop in Iowa in a big way as that is a state that Obama carried and where there would be a few hundred thousand disaffected white voters who could carry him to victory using his proclaimed strategy. He’s got as much money as anybody. But who is going to mobilize them? He’s just gonna go to all those churches himself and remind them that he’s gonna repeal gay marriage and kick the gays out of the military?

    It’s no secret that Iowa is a caucus state and to do well in that caucus one needs to pay people to make sure your supporters show up on caucus night in far flung precincts.and then make sure the delegates stick around until March when they finally get around to deciding who to support.I guess the truth is that the publicity of doing well is more important than winning the delegates.

  75. 75.

    craigie

    @Ridnik Chrome:

    This pretty much describes the dynamic between San Francisco and LA. The SF folks loath us, and we just cluelessly go “Sure, San Francisco is a great town!” I think that makes them even madder, that we don’t hate them back.

  76. 76.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @seaboogie: I refuse to imagine that I am Cole. I can’t imagine ever being a Republican, supporting the Iraq War, or being an jam band fan. Ew.

  77. 77.

    Amir Khalid

    This sounds ominous for Bush. The sense I get from the Politico story is that he doesn’t have money where he really needs it: his superPAC is loaded but his campaign is having to pinch its pennies. That’s going to hurt his efforts to hire staff in the states. And the reports of the ad blitz in New Hampshire that did absolutely nothing for his polling numbers there suggests a campaign that isn’t prioritising effectively.

  79. 79.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Amir Khalid:

    his superPAC is loaded but his campaign is having to pinch its pennies.

    This is devastating. Bush has been trying to outsource his entire campaign. He will soon run into the contradictions inherent in that choice,

  82. 82.

    SFAW

    @redshirt:

    Burn you fucking Yankee bastards!!!

    First of all, as any fan of Steve Gilliard can tell you, the proper conjugation is “Fuck the Fucking Yankees.” (a/k/a “FTFY”)

    Third of all, the Yankees were eliminated in the wild card game. Get with the program, will you?

    Fucking Maine autumn musta froze your brain.

  84. 84.

    SFAW

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    She has oddly become a respected foreign policy person. She has studied and is respected by real experts

    Glad to hear she didn’t pull a Victoria Jackson.

    @efgoldman:

    She’s gotta’ be even older than I am.

    Unpossible.

  85. 85.

    Mike J

    @SFAW:

    Third of all, the Yankees were eliminated in the wild card game.

    There is no time when FTFY isn not appropriate.

  87. 87.

    seaboogie

    @Omnes Omnibus: Go Morgan/Patsy Ann! In wiki research, there is a sort of footnote that she was kidnapped and held against her will on two separate occasions. Cannot even imagine that. Do you suppose the second time, she was all “Oh – not this shit again!”?

  89. 89.

    Ridnik Chrome

    @ruemara: You should see all the refugees from Brooklyn running around Sunnyside these days, now that they can’t afford Williamsburg and Park Slope anymore. Laugh all you want, you’ll be living here too soon enough…

  94. 94.

    SFAW

    @Mike J:

    There is no time when FTFY isn not appropriate.

    Although I’ve been a Mets fan for 55 years, I feel no special animus towards the Yankees. It’s out of respect for the memory of Gilliard that I use FTFY.

    (And, when I first came to this joint, I could not understand why so many people were saying FTFY in their comments, since said comments had nothing to do with baseball or NY. It took about six months before I realized it was “Fixed That For You.” Light dawns on marble head.)

  96. 96.

    Ridnik Chrome

    @SFAW: I still miss Gilliard. I’m so old I remember when he and Cole were both regular posters at Daily Kos. Some dandy comment battles with those two…

  97. 97.

    frosty

    @craigie:

    This pretty much describes the dynamic between San Francisco and LA.

    Chicago, New York; SF,LA. Same dynamic between Baltimore and Washington. We hatesss them, they say “Oh Baltimore, cool working class neighborhoods, nice place to visit.”

  100. 100.

    Ken

    The article says his policy shop is working on speeches.

    Are any of the less than ten staffers actually working on, I dunno, policy?

    For some reason, I’m reminded of the crew his brother set up to plan the postwar management of Iraq, that spent all of its time cooking up “intelligence” to justify the W’s greatest misadventure instead of planning.

  101. 101.

    mclaren

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    This is devastating. Bush has been trying to outsource his entire campaign. He will soon run into the contradictions inherent in that choice.

    Coming soon: Bush outsources his candidacy as well.

  102. 102.

    mclaren

    Bush is also pitching serious policy proposals. He has close to 10 staffers working in his campaign’s policy shop.

    Meaning Jeb has either 1 or zero staffers working his campaign’s policy shop — and when you put a 1 and a 0 together, the result is close to 10!

  103. 103.

    Redshift

    @mclaren:

    Coming soon: Bush outsources his candidacy as well.

    That explains why his troll here is named after his super PAC — he’s gonna have the super PAC run in his place!

  104. 104.

    PurpleGirl

    Re Morgan Fairchild and foreign policy — yes, it may seem incredible that she changed herself into someone much more serious than she gets credit for. I would like to remind people that Heddy Lamar also did something along the same lines. It took many years before her design work was implemented but eventually she was credited with inventing Spread Spectrum Technology.

  105. 105.

    NotMax

    @efgoldman

    But – but – it’s all a cunning plan to lower expectations, surge at precisely the most opportune moment, dazzle the electorate with a torrent of crisp Benjamins and run the table.

    Or something.

    :)

  106. 106.

    PurpleGirl

    @efgoldman: I count Shirley Temple Black becoming an ambassador as a political patronage appointment, paying her back for years of Republican fund raising, not as someone who actually worked in the Foreign Service. Pamela Harriman is in that same category — a reward for years of fund raising for the Democrats in her case. (Also Pamela Harriman was married to Averill Harriman.)

  113. 113.

    Fair Economist

    @Amir Khalid:

    And the reports of the ad blitz in New Hampshire that did absolutely nothing for his polling numbers there suggests a campaign that isn’t prioritising effectively.

    Particularly since the superPAC can do a good job on media blitzes, but they can’t help him hire organizers or write speeches and have a lot of legal loopholes to do policy work.

  117. 117.

    sm*t cl*de

    a policy shop that’s churning out his speeches

    “But what do you really think about $ISSUE?”
    “Just a minute, I’ll check my principle shop.”

  118. 118.

    sm*t cl*de

    @mclaren:

    Coming soon: Bush outsources his candidacy as well.

    Example #262 of “Why outsourcing is good for the company and for the economy”.

  119. 119.

    jafd

    “TPS reports” = ???

    ‘Temporary Protected Status’ ?
    ‘Twin Prime Search’ ?
    ‘Theorum Proving System’ ?

    The world wonders.

  121. 121.

    NonyNony

    @Amir Khalid:

    This sounds ominous for Bush. The sense I get from the Politico story is that he doesn’t have money where he really needs it: his superPAC is loaded but his campaign is having to pinch its pennies.

    Isn’t that what happened to Rick Perry? His SuperPAC had plenty of money in it, but his campaign coffers were empty.

    I just double checked – it was true of Scott Walker too. His SuperPAC had over $40 million in it, while his campaign apparently owed money on outstanding debt when he dropped out.

    This is why the GOP wants to remove the restrictions on campaign donations ever further than they are now. Right now a few insane billionaires can start a SuperPAC and put as much money into advertising for a candidate as they want. But they’re still restricted to $2700 per election cycle to the campaigns.

    (The UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH SuperPACs have not been as devastating on the national level as people had feared – I suspect that this is because national elections already have so much saturated news coverage that people just do not care about another ad – people mostly know well in advance how they’re going to vote. If that money could be given to the campaign to organize GOTV it could be devastatingly effective, so keeping those individual donor limits in place is important. State-level elections are getting bought with that UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH though – it’s a real problem that billionaires are able to basically buy an entire state government for what amounts to the loose change from the couch cushions.)

  122. 122.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Staff matters. I have seen info indicating that HRC has 90+ people in Iowa including at least on staffer in every county. Sanders is supposedly at 50+ on Iowa. Both are taking the ground game seriously and working on it. On the GOP side, crickets…

    I thought the GOP pols outsourced that to Mega Churches or their doners. Which is one of the reason they are in such a mess.

  123. 123.

    Richard Mayhew

    @TG Chicago: Many years ago when I was a young policy wonk fresh from grad school and massively underemployed, I picked up a gig as a policy geek for a Democratic Senate primary campaign (we lost). The pay was decent enough once you included unlimited Campaign Coffee, a lot of beer and more bad pizza than you can imagine. There were 3 full timers with benefits, and about 15 people doing chunks (like me).

    Most of the policy work was synthesis of a variety of ideas floating in the liberal policy space, and a lot of research to poke holes in our opponents’ ideas. Give us a topic at 9AM and we could get 50 pages for 7pm and a good 10 pages by noon the next day and then a 1 pager by the end of 48 hours followed by a 250 page white paper in 2 weeks.

    We were a primary campaign and we were better staffed than a presidential campaign.

  127. 127.

    James Wimberley

    @Omnes @PurpleGirl: Omnibus: Pamela Harriman was an intelligent woman with useful experience. The experience was peculiar – in WWII London she’d basically been a geisha to British war leaders, exhausted and stressed middle-aged men. You don’t do this for a good time but because you are interested in high-level decision-making.

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