HarrisWatch: “Pink Sugar” Picks Fourth Campaign Manager

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Rep. Katherine “Pink Sugar” Harris (R-FL) just hired her fourth manager to run her calamitous Senate campaign. Reports the Tampa Tribune:

In a statement, Harris said she was “delighted” to have [Bryan] Rudnick on her team, saying he “has over 10 years of experience in Florida politics.”

That seemed to be a bit of a stretch, since Rudnick was a senior at Brandeis University in the spring of 2000.

OK, so maybe not 10 years of experience — but he does appear to have been politically active. News accounts in 2000 show he fought (successfully) to bring NRA spokesman/Moses impersonator Charlton Heston to speak on campus. The school balked at first, saying security costs would be too high, but Rudnick didn’t back down, the Boston Herald reported:

“They paid $126,000 for security for the Dali Lama [sic] but are only willing to pay $5,000 for Heston’s,” said Bryan Rudnick, one of the conservative kids trying to bring Charlton to campus.

Yeah, what’s up with that? Maybe if the Dalai LAma packed heat the way Charlie does, he wouldn’t need so much security.

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