Potomac Flacks: Dems Suspicious of New Lieberman Flack

November 27, 2006

Dems Suspicious of New Lieberman Flack

Joelieberman Roll Call reports that a few Senate Dem spokespeople are "uneasy about [Sen. Joe] Lieberman’s new communications director, Marshall Wittmann, sitting in on their weekly press secretary meetings." Wittman's a former conservative activist and spokesman for Sen. John McCain.

"Now, everyone at the weekly meeting will feel like the turd in the punch bowl has a name," one colorful Senate flack told Roll Call.

"Yet another Senate Democratic communications director, one whose boss looks a lot like a presidential candidate, said, 'What’s more dangerous than a Republican-turned-Democrat-turned-Independent sitting in our strategy sessions? One who is a prodigious leaker. ... I think our ability to speak our minds and get something done in our meetings just plummeted.'"

Posted by Matt Mackowiak on November 27, 2006 in Capitol Hill | Permalink | Comments (26) | TrackBack (0)

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