Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:<\/p>\n
* [tag]Katherine Harris[\/tag]’ (R) Senate campaign in Florida suffered yet another setback yesterday when GOP advertising guru Adam Goodman, a Harris advisor for more than 12 years, resigned. As the Tampa Tribune reported<\/a>, “Asked whether he advised Harris to leave the race, as another top strategist suggested earlier, Goodman said only, ‘She hasn’t followed my counsel.'”<\/p>\n * Speaking of the Sunshine State, a new Mason-Dixon poll<\/a> was released this morning on Florida’s gubernatorial race. The poll shows state Attorney General Charlie Crist leading Tom Gallagher, the state’s chief financial officer, in the GOP primary, 43% to 27%. Among Dems, Rep. Jim Davis is ahead of state Sen. Rod Smith by 28% to 9%. Most Floridians in both parties, however, remain undecided.<\/p>\n * In North Dakota, with the filing deadline quickly approaching, state Republicans have finally found an opponent for Sen. Kent Conrad (D). A week before the GOP state convention, Dwight Grotberg<\/a>, a farmer who has never run for public office, threw his hat into the ring.<\/p>\n * California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s (R) re-election campaign began airing its first TV ads<\/a> this week, just eight months before Election Day. Most political observers suggest the ad buy is a sign of Schwarzenegger’s need to build up some support before the race slips away completely. The ad touts the state’s economy and Schwarzenegger’s opposition to the state’s car tax.<\/p>\n * Businessman Jack Davis ran a tough race against Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-N.Y.) in 2004 as a political novice, and will seek a rematch<\/a> this November. Davis, a millionaire owner of a heating-element manufacturer, said yesterday that he had done some polling<\/a> and found he has a chance of defeating Reynolds. Neither will face a primary opponent.<\/p>\n * And in New Jersey, Newark Mayor Sharpe James announced yesterday that he will not seek a sixth term<\/a> and sent a letter to the city clerk asking that his name be removed from the May 9 ballot. James is a controversial figure in Newark, known for his over-the-top theatrics<\/a>. His departure clears the way for Dem rising star Cory Booker, whom James barely beat four years ago in a race so tough that federal election monitors were called into Newark, and which ultimately was turned into an Oscar-winning film called “Street Fight.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * [tag]Katherine Harris[\/tag]’ (R) Senate campaign in Florida suffered yet another setback yesterday when GOP advertising guru Adam Goodman, a Harris advisor for more than 12 years, resigned. As the Tampa Tribune reported, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}