{"id":985,"date":"2004-12-15T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-15T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/12\/15\/virginia_news_a_2\/"},"modified":"2004-12-15T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-15T22:30:00","slug":"virginia_news_a_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/12\/15\/virginia_news_a_2\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia News:  Allen to Get Nasty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Senator George Allen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesdispatch.com\/servlet\/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&#038;c=MGArticle&#038;cid=1031779685760&#038;path=%21news&#038;s=1045855934842 \">is making plans<\/a> for a rough and tumble re-election in \u201906.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Taking no chances in girding for a re-election bid, Sen. George Allen picked as his campaign manager a veteran of three tough Senate races this year.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Miller managed the campaign of Republican Jack Ryan of Illinois, who quit amid allegations of sex-club visits, and was a top consultant to the campaigns of Mel Martinez in Florida and Tom Coburn in Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>Miller is &#8220;an experienced professional who knows how to mobilize supporters and reach out to new voters to create winning coalitions,&#8221; Allen, R-Va., said in an announcement yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the person who really will run Allen&#8217;s re-election campaign, added analyst Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia, will be Dick Wadhams. He will join Allen&#8217;s Senate office next month as chief of staff.<\/p>\n<p>Wadhams managed Republican John Thune&#8217;s campaign that unseated Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota last month.<\/p>\n<p>The hiring of Wadhams &#8220;was a double signal, to Warner and to [Senate Majority Leader Bill] Frist and other candidates for president, that Allen&#8217;s going to play hardball,&#8221; Sabato said. &#8220;You hire Wadhams when you&#8217;re going to tear your opponent&#8217;s guts out.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Senator George Allen is making plans for a rough and tumble re-election in \u201906. Taking no chances in girding for a re-election bid, Sen. George Allen picked as his campaign manager a veteran of three tough Senate races this year. Jason Miller managed the campaign of Republican Jack Ryan of Illinois, who quit amid&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/12\/15\/virginia_news_a_2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}