A Bachmann Staff Exodus Was ‘Our Plan All Along’ - Politics - The Atlantic Wire
In less than a month, Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign has lost its campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, top pollster, senior adviser, deputy press secretary, and scheduler. But Bachmann says the changes are not due to her reported trouble raising money, and that the four staffers’ departures in the last week was “This has been in line with our plan all along,” Des Moines Register’s Jason Noble reports. She went on to explain that some of the departing staff were merely on loan from her Congressional office. “This was not a long-term commitment that I had asked for the (congressional) staff,” Bachmann said. “They were here on a relatively short commitment, and so they fulfilled what we asked.”