May 11, 2007 03:58 AM UTC

Schaffer Hires General Consultant for Senate Run

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• by: Colorado Pols

(This story broke late last night, so we promoted it to the top in case you missed it. – promoted by Colorado Pols)

Republican Bob Schaffer has retained Shari Williams as the General Consultant for his upcoming U.S. Senate run. Williams has a long history overseeing statewide Republican campaigns and was heavily involved in Bob Beauprez’s run for governor in 2006.

We first reported back in January that Schaffer would run for the U.S. Senate in 2008. With Williams on board, an official announcement may not be far behind.

UPDATE: Colorado Confidential has more on the decision to hire Williams:

Politics is different from real life in a lot of ways; for one thing, a political campaign is the only business that you run where your goal is to go bankrupt. But I’ll never understand why politics is also a business where your professional results are virtually irrelevant. If I applied for a job with Qwest, and my resume showed that I had run the last three companies I worked for into the ground, then I wouldn’t expect to be hired. But if I went to Bob Schaffer and said that I lost the last few campaigns I oversaw, he might give me a job.

Schaffer may very well be the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2008, but the way he’s starting off, I wouldn’t expect him to be the next Senator from Colorado.