The Rodriguez Campaign Is In A Shambles

By now, the gentle reader has surely heard about the latest self-inflicted wound to the Sara Rodriguez campaign.  It turns out that her campaign finances are nowhere near as rosy as she wanted to believe, and that it hasn't been for months. Due to multiple double entries and missed expense reports, Rodriguez thought her campaign had $1.5 million, but in reality, it was just about $200,000. That's quite an error.

Late on Sunday, Rodriguez sent out a press release saying that she had fired her campaign manager with just under a month to go until the primary. Then, on Monday, she held a press conference to show her complete transparency and leadership skills by repeatedly throwing her former campaign manager under the campaign bus. 

The one thing she did not do was take ownership of her role in this disaster. But she did let it slip out inadvertently:

Rodriguez said her campaign manager had worked with her for several years and in compliance for her whole career.

“As we are trying to make sure we have a lean campaign, it made sense for her to do the compliance report since that was her expertise, and that was one thing I had full trust in,” Rodriguez said, adding that Spencer had given her reports on a regular basis about the finances, and everything looked fine until last week. 

In other words, she made her campaign manager her finance manager and her compliance officer, all to save a buck and run a "lean campaign."  Well, it's pretty lean now, isn't it?  Austerity never works out well and never really saves any money. Now she has no campaign manager, no finance manager, and no money.  

To make matters worse for Rodriguez, this is just the most recent problem she has had. She's had the gaffe about doing the budget behind a curtain (which is really ironic now), to saying we should be collaborators with the ICEtapo, to saying that she needed to study whether to raise the minimum wage for the first time in 17 years, to snubbing the Muslim community.

Despite all this, Rodriguez vows to see things through to the bitter end, which shows either an amazing amount of resilience or an incredible level of denial.