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Friday, January 4, 2008

5:01 PM: Campaign staffers, media members depart Iowa

Members from the non-partisan Divided We Fail group spent six hours at the Des Moines International Airport today handing out goodies to media, campaign staffers and volunteers leaving Iowa for other presidential nominating states.

A lot of campaign cell phone numbers were turned off Friday after the caucus came to an end Thursday. Some Iowa staffers have been dispatched to other states, mostly to New Hampshire.

Eric Woolson, who directed Mike Huckabee's Iowa campaign worked today on shutting down the state office and said he may be headed to South Carolina soon.

Jen O'Malley Dillon, who directed John Edwards' Iowa campaign, has been named a deputy campaign manager.

Several notables were heading to the East Coast to work on the closing days of the New Hampshire primary

They include:
-- Huckabee's Iowa co-chair Bob Vander Plaats;
-- Mitt Romney's Iowa spokesman Tim Albrecht;
-- Hillary Clinton's Iowa spokesman Mark Daley;
-- Edwards' Iowa communications director Dan Leistikow;
-- Edwards campaign director Jen O'Malley Dillon;
-- Edwards Iowa political director Pat Maloney;
-- Edwards assistant communications director Mark McCullough

-- By Chris Dorsey, IowaPolitics.com

Chris Dorsey, bureau chief
Mike Schramm, news editor
Greg Bump, reporter
David Wise, reporter
Matt Clark, reporter
Eric Johnson, reporter
Andy Chung, reporter


Kiley Miller, The Hawk Eye (Burlington)
Mike Earles, Maquoketa Sentinel-Press
Wayne Dominowski, Sergeant Bluff Advocate
Stephani Finley, Creston News Advertiser
Alan Cross, Shenandoah Valley News Today
Rebecca Peter, Garner Leader & Signal


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