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Unfriendly neighbors at Paul and Huckabee headquarters
John McGlothlen
Jan. 1, 2008 12:42 pm
From TIME magazine, [naviga:font color="#800080"]Bad Blood at Huckabee and Paul[/naviga:font]:
For housed alongside each other on the bottom floor of a 73-year-old office building at 405 Sixth Avenue-and sharing the bathrooms in the basement- are the Iowa headquarters of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and Texas Congressman Ron Paul. ..."I don't think we've exchanged many words at all," says Huckabee's Iowa campaign manager Eric Woolson. You might have thought the holidays would have brought some occasion for communal cheer, or at least an exchange of cookies. "You're looking for the Silent Night 1914 story, with the Germans and the British playing soccer?" Zambenini told me when I suggested as much. "Nope." ...And there's the men's room, of course. A Paul volunteer recently ran into Huckabee himself there, and found him to be cordial. But there is some quiet grumbling from Huckabee's team about Paul's people using up all the paper towels. When told about the dispute, a top strategist for a rival GOP campaign said of the scruffy Paul forces: "They probably bathe in there." ...