According to ABC News:
Republican candidate former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., has nabbed GOP insider Ed Rollins to serve a national campaign chairman.
Republican candidate former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., has nabbed GOP insider Ed Rollins to serve a national campaign chairman.
Huge blunder...
Rollins is hugely controversial: after he ran Christine Todd Whitman's successful run for NJ governor, he caused a national firestorm by, according to Wikipedia:
...claiming to Time magazine that he secretly paid black ministers and democratic campaign workers in order to suppress voter turnout. "We went into black churches and we basically said to ministers who had endorsed Florio, 'Do you have a special project?' And they said, 'We've already endorsed Florio.' We said, 'That's fine, don't get up on the Sunday pulpit and preach. We know you've endorsed him, but don't get up there and say it's your moral obligation that you go on Tuesday to vote for Jim Florio.'" After public outcry and calls for an investigation Rollins partially retracted some of these claims...
...but he's had a hard time getting high profile work since, and has been most prominent in the campaigns of folks like Kathleen Harris and NY's low-profile, failed Senate candidate Senate contender KT McFarland. I'm stunned he's found his way to the top of a Presidential campaign. He will generate HUGE negative publicity for Huckabee.
Dumb. More proof the guy really isn't ready for prime time.