March 28, 2008 12:07 AM UTC

Shakeup at Polis Campaign

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• by: Colorado Pols

As the Rocky Mountain News reports:

The campaign manager for congressional candidate Jared Polis is moving to an advisory role so she can spend more time helping her husband’s restaurant business.

Wanda James said today she will remain “very” involved in Polis’ campaign as a strategist, but won’t be overseeing the day-to-day operations. Her successor has not been named.

James’ husband, Scott Durrah, owns 8 Rivers Cafe in northwest Denver, and is opening another Caribbean restaurant in LoDo this summer.

“One of the first things we’re going to do is have a fund-raiser for Jared,” James said.

We haven’t seen a statement yet from the Polis campaign on this, so the News story seems to have come out of James’ efforts to get ahead of any announcement.

The Polis campaign has been an absolute mess almost from the beginning, culminating in a near-disastrous Democratic caucus effort that saw Polis come dangerously close to falling below the 30 percent support level needed to make the ballot. Polis badly needed to make a staff change in order to salvage his flailing campaign (if you really think James “resigned,” you’re smoking something), and it will be interesting to see who he brings in to right the ship.