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Huntsman’s campaign manager resigns

2:25 PM 07/21/2011
Katie McHugh

After only a month on the trail, Jon Huntsman campaign manager Susie Wiles has resigned her post.

“I’m proud to have worked hard to launch Jon Huntsman’s effort and proud of the team we built,” Wiles told The Daily Caller in an email. “Now is a good time for me to go back to my prior life.”

In an interview with the Miami Herald’s Marc Caputo, Wiles said, “It was in my plans to resign at some point. … I intend to be friend and confidante of Huntsman.”

Wiles didn’t offer an explanation for her departure, but plans to resume her business with Ballard Partners and her business partner, Tony Boselli.

While the Huntsman campaign hasn’t suffered from a mass exodus of top campaign staffers like the limping Gingrich effort, Wiles’s resignation could be a sign of darker waters ahead for Huntsman, especially in light of recent poll numbers.

According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released Thursday, Huntsman polled only 3 percent among voters leaning Republican.

Gallup polls show the former Utah governor with only 1 percent of ballot support and a 3 percent positive intensity score among Republican voters.

Another campaign staffer, Spencer Geissinger — a Bush White House veteran who worked with Wiles on the Rick Scott campaign — resigned last week to take care of his ill mother.

The Washington Post reports Wiles will be replaced by communications director Matt David.

Tags: Elections 2012, Jon Huntsman
  • Cottoneyed

    Amen to all of the above. We went down this road in 08′, didn’t we. Never again, will we be forced to vote for a candidate that is chosen by the socialists. Huntsman, as our nominee is laughable, but we aren’t laughing because the 2012 election is the most important election of our lifetimes. If obama is not replaced, then the country of Washington, Adams, Hamilton, Hancock, Jefferson, Henry, and Franklin will bear NO resemblance to the country they gave us. It comes down to just that. Do we continue with their vision or do we instead embrace the vision of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Castro, and Chavez. Make no mistake, that is the choice that is in front of us. Definitely, no laughing matter.

  • SunnyJ

    I don’t care if Newts or Cains guys quit or Bachmann’s or this goof. I do find it interesting though that Huntsman is the media’s RINO choosen candidate and while they made a big stink about the others having campaign staff issues and failures of leadership and yada yada. It is below midpage news if at all on Huntsman. Just another example of the media bias and attempt to control the conversation…they want Huntsman and the American people are not going along with it.

  • Red Ruffansore

    Who? No matter, I’m still waiting to see how Paxton Quigley and Ned Fernpepper do in the primaries, I figure name recognition alone can carry them if a rock solid RINO voting history does not. RNC, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory since the Whig party went away.

    Isn’t it becoming apparent? NO RINO’s, NO POSERS, NO GERIATRIC GEEZERS WHO FEEL THEIR SHOT AT THE BRASS RING IS DUE. It’s kind of sad when the only real testosterone in our party resides with Michelle Bachmann. Allen West is the only other example of someone with fire in their belly. Paul Ryan is also very capable.

  • recovered dem

    Huntsman might as well fold up his tent and ride off into the sunset. People aren’t going to vote for that liberal democrat wearing a republican suit.

  • joeaiello

    Huntsman would make a good door to door life insurance salesman, just like Romney and Pawlenty!

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  • designerrant

    Anyone who writes syrupy letters to Obama can just go home now, we don’t need Republicans to do that, all the dems and lame stream media take care of that.