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Parker Griffith (Birmingham News)
The entire staff of former Democratic Congressman Parker Griffith resigned today in protest of his decision to join the GOP.
Griffith, who was elected last year as a Democrat, switched sides last month after splitting with the party over health care reform and the stimulus package.
In a statement today, Griffith's former chief of staff denounced the move as "a well-intentioned but misguided mistake that is not in the interest of the great people of North Alabama who elected him a year ago as a Democrat."
Many of the staffers who resigned have worked in Washington longer than their boss. While Griffith's staff waited until the New Year to quit, others didn't --according to Politico, Griffith's entire political consulting team resigned immediately after he announced his switch.
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So what? it looks like they have been giving him bad advice any way; i'm certain that their mediocrity will come in handy for a loyal democrat hack. replacing them will be no problem, probably an improvment.
Well those advisors helped get him elected, unless Mr. Griffith is a political opportunist who ran as a Democrat because he couldn't win as a Republican in that district. That'd make him a different kind of hack, I suppose.
What did Arlen Spector's staff do? Maybe they can get a job with him. Oh, yeah, he won't have a job either. Well then maybe Murther. Ummmmm, maybe not.
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