It’s usually wise to be wary of anonymously sourced stories, but this one in the New York Post rings plausible. Apparently Hillary’s New York and D.C. folks are sparring:
“Her New York crew is fighting like hell with her D.C. folks, and it’s worse than the normal stuff, real serious tensions,” said a Democratic Party source. “The New York folks are the ones who got her elected to begin with. They’ve done it and know what to do. The D.C. folks are the ‘geniuses’ who do ‘national elections’ and think everyone here is a rube. “The Washington types hold meeting after meeting and then send a group of fatheaded 27-year-olds to do events in New York, and they wind up fighting with her staff here,” continued the source, who is in day-to-day contact with party activities. The source said the tensions exploded at Clinton’s endorsement event with Gov. Spitzer and other high-ranking Democrats earlier in the month at the Capitol. “The New York locals were incensed that so many of these outsider kids were sent in from Washington and they were trying to run the event and they couldn’t even make a contribution to it.”
Why does that seem plausible? Because anybody in a senior level in a national campaign has an ego, and every one of them thinks they have the perfect formula to get the candidate the nomination. Almost every campaign has some of this. The question is whether it will really hurt the campaign; so far, none of the bumps in the road have really driven Hillary off-track.
Yet.






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