President’s Re-Election Transition Begins With OFA Layoffs (Organizing for America)

Roll Call ^ | 1/03/11 | Christina Bellantoni

[Libloather]

President’s Re-Election Transition Begins With OFA Layoffs
By Christina Bellantoni
Roll Call Staff
Jan. 3, 2011, 12:17 p.m.

The Democratic National Committee’s Organizing for America has started laying off staff in multiple states as the first phase of a restructuring before the official kickoff of President Barack Obama’s re-election bid.

A Democratic source told Roll Call that party officials started notifying employees Sunday night and that the layoffs are mostly a handful of field staffers in some states as Democrats assess where they want to fight 2012 battlegrounds.

“This is likely the first wave in a series of staff reductions as we transition for the re-elect,” the Democrat said.

It was unclear how many staffers would be laid off or where they are from, but OFA had staff in all 50 states. The cuts were expected, but officials had told aides before Thanksgiving that they would all be kept on the payroll through the holiday season.

OFA, which began in 2009 as a way of boosting Obama’s policy initiatives at a grass-roots level across the country, will be an organization in transition this year. It is anticipated that the leaner OFA will morph into the president’s re-election campaign, which is highly likely to be based out of Chicago.

[Libloather]

Laser-like focus on jobs.

[FrankR]

I'm hoping that we've been awakened enough that the '08 presidential election was "fool me once" thing regarding the OFA, ACORN, and all of those groups cheating their asses off to get the "one" elected.

"Organizing For America" might as well be "organizing for obama", as that was all it was about.

Bases on character, honesty, and competance, barrack obama could never be elected, so it had to be skullduggery.

[drypowder]

Will he be vetted for eligibility this time?