Yesterday the New York Observer‘s Jason Horowitz reported that “a former bundler to Hillary Clinton just called in to tell me that Barack Obama‘s selection of Patti Solis Doyle as chief of staff to the campaign’s eventual vice presidential nominee is the ‘biggest fuck you I have ever seen in politics.’
“The donor, speaking on background, said that everyone in Clinton circles knows the two have hard feelings towards one another and haven’t spoken since Clinton removed Solis Doyle as campaign manager, and that Clinton loyalists view her with deep suspicion and believe that Solis Doyle is shopping around a book deal and acted as a background source for an extremely harsh Vanity Fair piece about Bill Clinton.
“‘Either one of two things happen,’ said the bundler. ‘Hillary is selected as vice president and they fire Patti, or Hillary is not going to be the vice president.’
“The bundler said that Clinton loyalists were livid over the pick. ‘You don’t hire Patti Solis Doyle for her operational expertise,’ said the bundler. ‘You don’t do that. This is someone who failed dramatically at her job. You only bring her on to fuck someone else.'”