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User: "Fred Stone"
Date: 11 Jun 2005 10:09:24 AM
Object: Hunting Bubba (No, not THAT Bubba)
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Hunting Bubba
From the June 20, 2005 issue: Can political consultants Dave "Mudcat"
Saunders and Steve Jarding win rural voters back to the Democratic
party? by Matt Labash
06/20/2005, Volume 010, Issue 38

Roanoke, Virginia
"YOU'RE SLOWER than cream rising on s--. Haul ***** down here so we can
get this piece knocked out, Brotha!" As I barrel down I-81 in Virginia's
Blue Ridge country, Dave "Mudcat" Saunders is growling on the other end
of the line. He first entered my consciousness in the summer of 2003,
like some force of nature sent my way by the Color Gods of Feature
Writing.
Back then, I was one of a group of short-straw reporters assigned to
cover Bob Graham's "family vacation," a Winnebago caravan across Iowa
that, in a lucky break for the Graham grandchildren, coincided with
presidential campaign season. Stuck on a chaser pontoon on the
Mississippi River for a fishing photo-op, we watched Graham, on the lead
boat, do what he did best throughout the campaign: aimlessly drift.
Mudcat (a childhood nickname earned by tireless bottom-fishing of the
Roanoke River) was serving as Graham's "Bubba Coordinator." A couple of
years earlier, Mudcat and his mentor, Steve Jarding, had become a hot
ticket: They'd masterminded Mark Warner's ride to the governor's mansion
in Virginia by figuring out how he could pick off the rural vote, a feat
Democrats hadn't accomplished in the state in nearly a generation.
Subsequently, the two formalized their partnership and hung out a
shingle, calling the firm "Rural Renaissance." After a brief stint with
John Edwards, whose campaign they fled over philosophical differences
with other staffers, the pair signed on with Graham, who himself had
entered the race so late that his poll numbers never stopped resembling
those of Dennis Kucinich...
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
Men of learning suspect it little, and ignore it mostly.
-- H.P. Lovecraft, "Hypnos"
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