... it looks like I pretty much misread the movement of Matt Paul (Vilsack's communications director) to Mike Blouin's campaign to manage it: "The Fallon Campaign received a call from Vilsack this morning letting us know that Matt Paul made the decision to leave while he was away, and in fact Vilsack wasn't even informed of the decision until a few days ago. Vilsack is both upset about Paul's departure and intent on letting the press and the world know that he neither condoned nor approved of Paul's decision."