May 03, 2010 08:17 PM UTC

Penry's Actual Job Revealed

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• by: Colorado Pols

We didn’t get a chance to get to this when word came out late Friday, so here it is today.

Republican Senate candidate Jane Norton dumped her spokesperson on Friday. As Curtis Hubbard notes in “The Spot“:

That means Nate Strauch – who previously worked for the Colorado Attorney General’s office and the Colorado Oil and Gas Association – is gone, and deputy campaign manager Cinamon Watson takes on additional duties.

The move is not surprising in the wake of the arrival of Josh Penry as Norton’s news campaign manager. Penry came on board earlier this month promising a meaner and leaner campaign operation…[Pols emphasis]

…Strauch is the first flak casualty on the Republican side of this year’s Senate races, but Democrat Andrew Romanoff’s campaign has gone through them like Josh McDaniels through quarterbacks.

We agree that this news isn’t surprising, but for a different reason than listed above. As we noted when Penry was first announced as Norton’s new “campaign manager,” the real reason Penry was brought on to the campaign was to serve as the spokesperson and the new face of the operation, thus making poor Nate Strauch redundant.