{"id":706,"date":"2003-10-02T13:38:15","date_gmt":"2003-10-02T18:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/706.html"},"modified":"2003-10-02T13:38:15","modified_gmt":"2003-10-02T18:38:15","slug":"beginning-of-the-end-for-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/beginning-of-the-end-for-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning of the end for Graham?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AP is reporting that Bob Graham&#8217;s top campaign spokesman, Jamal Simmons, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A34305-2003Oct2.html\">has resigned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons told Graham the news &#8220;as other key staff met at Graham headquarters in Miami Lakes, Fla., to discuss how &#8212; or whether &#8212; to proceed with the campaign,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>I hate to say it, but Simmons was about the best thing the Graham campaign had going for them. He is a sharp, experienced campaign professional. It was a coup for Graham to pick him up and it&#8217;s a <i>very<\/i> bad sign now that&#8217;s he&#8217;s moving on.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons didn&#8217;t even try and offer some kind of &#8220;spend more time with my family&#8221; kind of excuse, saying only that this was &#8220;just the right time for me to move on.&#8221; It makes it sound like he&#8217;s leaving a sinking ship.<\/p>\n<p>Put a fork in Graham. He&#8217;s done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AP is reporting that Bob Graham&#8217;s top campaign spokesman, Jamal Simmons, has resigned. Simmons told Graham the news &#8220;as other key staff met at Graham headquarters in Miami Lakes, Fla., to discuss how &#8212; or whether &#8212; to proceed with the campaign,&#8221; the report said. I hate to say it, but Simmons was about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}