Moving on Up…Down…Out?

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First, it was reported that Gov. Schwarzenegger’s official communications director Rob Stutzman and chief of staff Pat Clarey are leaving Arnold’s administration to go work on Arnold’s campaign.

Today comes word from the AP that the Guv’s Finance Director Tom Campbell is also jumping onto the campaign bandwagon.

If there were any lingering doubts as to whether the Governor’s office and the Governor’s campaign were one and the same, this should just about dispel it.

Who’s next? Will Legal Secretary Peter Siggins come on board as campaign counsel? Why not? He already has the experience with his inside-the-horseshoe work on Prop. 77. How about education adviser Margaret Fortune? She’s been out with Campbell on the campaign circuit on the taxpayer dime over the past month too.

The most comical aspect of this isn’t the fact that no one seems to be minding the store, it’s the fact that all these Administration officials are needed to shore up a campaign operation already loaded with some of the most expensive consultants money can buy.

Ahh, the life of a Schwarzenegger adviser…Mssrs. Murphy, Harris, Randall, Wilson, Hutton, Sipple, Gorton, and Claussen can take it easy and rake it in while the Horseshoe Home Office rides in to do the heavy lifting.

Here’s the deal… Arnold’s campaign doesn’t need to staff-up, it needs to shut-down and go home.

Californians aren’t interested in his so-called “reform” and no googol of high-priced staff is going to change their minds.

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