Ousted Huntsman campaign adviser David Fischer, who has known Jon Huntsman for decades, has come forward and said that that the Huntsman campaign has been facing significant in-fighting and tension. Fischer blames senior adviser John Weaver, who formerly worked on John McCain’s 2000 presidential campaign and in the early months of McCain’s 2008 campaign. From Politico’s Jonathan Martin:

Fischer and other anti-Weaver sources describe a campaign rife with dysfunction and internal squabbles and insist that the chief strategist is at the heart of the problem, saying:
— At least four staffers who left the campaign did so in part over clashes with Weaver.
— Weaver tore into staff and volunteers after Huntsman’s disastrous campaign announcement, leveling invective even at some workers who had nothing to do with the candidate’s clumsy launch.
— Huntsman’s father and wife, Mary Kaye, are worried about the direction of the campaign. “Why isn’t he on any of the talk shows yet?” his wife asked in June. “Why isn’t he on ‘The View?’”
— Huntsman’s early staffing was so bare-bones that the campaign didn’t even have a policy director, or standard white papers. It left Huntsman himself relying on papers prepared by the American Enterprise Institute to bone up on the issues.
— Fischer says Huntsman, who has already taken out a line of credit for the campaign, doesn’t plan to contribute any more of his own fortune, even though supporters already are urging him to “pony up.” A Huntsman official said that the candidate has not indicated such a thing.

Full piece here. Huntsman spokesman Tim Miller told Politico that Fischer’s “statements about this campaign are untrue” and “the fact that he would be willing to undermine Governor Huntsman in this way says everything you need to know about his character, his credibility, and whether he has the Governor’s best interests at heart.”