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Galen signs on with Hutchison
Rich Galen, a former aide to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich when they were in Congress, is going to work for U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, as a senior counselor.
Galen also writes an online column at mullings.com, although he’s put the page on hiatus to await a go-ahead from the ethics police in the Senate.
But in his hiatus column, he managed to fire off this blast at press-secretary-turned-author Scott McClellan: “It was generally known in Washington that McClellan was such an ineffective spokesman that he would have done better to tack the talking points he had been given to the briefing room wall and leave, rather than waste the press corps’ time hectoring him for an hour or so every day.”
If this is the type of shot that Galen will fire at Hutchison’s adversaries (cough, Rick Perry, cough), we could be in for some fun.
Someone immediately asked whether this is another sign that Hutchison is running for governor in 2010. Perhaps. But remember that in 2005 she hired GOP campaign guy Terry Sullivan to help with her next election and many at the time thought it was a sign she would take on Perry the following year. But ultimately she chose not to run for governor and she ended her successful re-election run for Senate with a different campaign manager.
Efforts to reach the oft-quoted Galen by phone today were unsuccessful.
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