{"id":878,"date":"2003-11-24T12:03:30","date_gmt":"2003-11-24T17:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/878.html"},"modified":"2003-11-24T12:03:30","modified_gmt":"2003-11-24T17:03:30","slug":"clark-fills-out-staff-positions-with-former-graham-aides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/clark-fills-out-staff-positions-with-former-graham-aides\/","title":{"rendered":"Clark fills out staff positions with former Graham aides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wesley Clark has tapped Bob Graham&#8217;s former campaign officials for several key posts. Graham spokesperson Jamal Simmons now has the same job for Clark, as does Graham&#8217;s New Hampshire director Steve Bouchard.<\/p>\n<p>Now we can add Paul Johnson to the list.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, Graham&#8217;s campaign manager, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/politics\/wire\/sns-ap-clark-campaign-manager,0,6255146.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines\">will now be Clark&#8217;s campaign manager<\/a>. Johnson has extensive background in Senate campaigns, as well as having worked on presidential bids for Mondale in 1984 and Kerrey in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a lot of first-hand knowledge about Johnson, but I&#8217;m glad Clark finally has someone in this post. Campaign chairman Eli Segal&#8217;s been doing a fine job, but Clark needed a dedicated manager for day-to-day campaign operations.<\/p>\n<p>Mavel tov, Paul. Now get to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wesley Clark has tapped Bob Graham&#8217;s former campaign officials for several key posts. Graham spokesperson Jamal Simmons now has the same job for Clark, as does Graham&#8217;s New Hampshire director Steve Bouchard. Now we can add Paul Johnson to the list. Johnson, Graham&#8217;s campaign manager, will now be Clark&#8217;s campaign manager. Johnson has extensive background [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","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=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}