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JULY 22, 2008

Obama's FL flak army

The way things are going, we wouldn't be entirely surprised to see the Barack Obama campaign wind up with more staffers assigned to handle the FL media than actual FL reporters still employed to cover politics and government. The soon-to-be announced statewide spokesman is deputy communications director Adrianne Marsh, on loan from Sen. Claire McCaskill's office where she was communications director. Because she is a crack bow hunter and forbid us from noting that she is dating Suzanne Kosmas' campaign manager, Paul Dunn, we won't mention that.

Also on board are Obama campaign veterans Adora Andy, handling press in Tampa Bay, and  Bobby Gravitz, in south Florida. Alejandro Miyar, most recently of the FDP, is handling Miami-Dade, Southwest Florida and Hispanic Media. Mark Bubriski is overall communications director, and two more communications staffers are expected to be on board for north Florida and the Orlando area. There's unconfirmed Buzz that Kevin Cate from Alex Sink's office could be one of those.

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