From the comments section of the previous post, it looks like I pretty much misread the movement of Matt Paul (Vilsack’s communications director) to Mike Blouin’s campaign to manage it:
“The Fallon Campaign received a call from Vilsack this morning letting us know that Matt Paul made the decision to leave while he was away, and in fact Vilsack wasn’t even informed of the decision until a few days ago. Vilsack is both upset about Paul’s departure and intent on letting the press and the world know that he neither condoned nor approved of Paul’s decision.”
It looks like personal relationships may have actually played into the movement (since Blouin was the one who basically got Paul the job). So, in this case, I admit Drew was right and I was wrong.
You just can’t trust the dynamics and things you think you know. Nothing like the self-correcting blogosphere. I hope no one feels the need to call a conference on blogger ethics because of this mishap.
I hope Drew is right.