Today's front page of the Washington, DC newspaper Roll Call features an article entitled "Daschle Loyalists Keep Heat on Thune." Jason provided an excerpt below. For the record, Daschle's former campaign manager, Steve Hildebrand, is still being paid thousands of dollars per month by Daschle's campaign and Daschle's political action committee. Hildebrand has also started another group to attack Thune on the Social Security front and hired long-time Daschle staffer Jeremy Funk, who promotes "F--- John Thune" t-shirts on his website, to help him (some believe that Hildebrand runs another one of the main anti-Thune websites but wants to remain "anonymous"). Chad Schuldt, another long-time Daschle staffer, also maintains an anti-Thune website and recently started "consulting," which many take to mean he's working for the anti-Thune project (but he won't reveal his "clients" so this can't be confirmed). In short, the Daschle campaign is alive and well and being funded by Daschle's own dollars and routinely goes after Senator Thune. They have every right to do so, but for Daschle to act like he has no idea what is going on is ridiculous. From Roll Call:
“I think it’s kinda silly actually,” said Daschle, who now serves as a policy adviser to the Washington, D.C., law firm of Alston and Bird. “I haven’t asked anybody [to attack Thune] nor do I know of any coordinated effort ... what’s past is past.”
Apparently, it's not past or Daschle's staffers wouldn't be promoting "F--- John Thune" t-shirts on their websites. Remember, a year ago Daschle was denouncing the "startling meanness" in American politics...now he's financing it.
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