The bankrupt campaign
Just when you think that things couldn’t possibly get worse for Howard Dean, his campaign pulls Super Tuesday ads because it’s broke:
Jan. 29, 2004 | Joe Trippi, the iconic architect of Howard Dean’s Internet-driven campaign, is gone. And so are the millions of dollars that Dean raised from legions of grass-roots supporters over the last year.
Following defeats in Iowa and New Hampshire, and less than a week away from a make-or-break series of Democratic primary election contests, Trippi on Wednesday quit the Dean campaign after being offered a lesser position. At the same time, Dean announced that his high-flying campaign is broke, and he announced to workers that their paychecks will be suspended for two weeks because of a multimillion-dollar debt.
What a sad end this is to Dean’s campaign, his movement, and his political career.
- January 29th
Oh, the story gets better and better. Looks like Trippi was taking a comission on the campaign ad sales, maybe as much as 15%.
Conflict of interest?
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/29/politics/campaign/29DEAN.html
$40 million, 15%… hey, he’s the Six Million Dollar Man!