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April 17, 2003--Campaign Director Craig Smith has a modest office in
Lieberman for President's new headquarters in Rosslyn, Virginia; the campaign
moved in on March 31. Smith talked about the progress of the Lieberman
campaign:
Every campaign goes through cycles, and there's a constant
building... We're just completing the development of the infrastructure:
getting the people in the states, getting people in Iowa and New Hampshire,
getting the finance offices set up. That's almost done. We've
got a few more details in some of the offices, the regional offices, to
get done, but that should be done within the week. And then it's
a question of going out there and making the sale, closing the deal, and
getting the voters on board.
He also addressed the challenge of running a presidential campaign:
It's the whipsaw effect you get from one minute having to deal
with the meta-picture of how are we going to position ourselves in this
debate, and the next minute it's call on a state rep. in Iowa and going
please be for us, and the next minute it's review the communications department
policy over who gets BlackBerries. You're just all over. I
guess that's the job. It's the ultimate in multi-tasking is trying
to run one of these things. ...What you're doing is you're
making up out of whole cloth a national organization with a budget of $25
million, with a staff of 150 people in a year's time.
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