Barrett Names Campaign Manager

From the "Scott Walker for Governor" blog kept by political insiders, but not connected to the campaign.

From WisPolitics:

Bill Hyers, a veteran of numerous political campaigns and a member of President Obama's administration, will lead Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett's guv bid, Dem sources told WisPolitics today.

Hyers most recently worked as the White House's liaison to the Department of Veterans Affairs after working on the president's 2008 campaign.

The "Scott Walker for Governor" boys focus on this news being more proof that Barrett is the hand-picked, forced-at-gun-point candidate of both Jim Doyle and the Obama White House.

That no doubt is true, but a quick Google search finds that Hyers is a veteran of a number of campaigns from all across the country.  This 2007 post at Daily Kos shows he managed the 2006 House campaign of now-Senator Kristen Gillibrand in New York's 20th Congressional District, followed by the 2007 campaign of Michael Nutter, who is now the Mayor of Philadelphia.

He has a record of winning, which is no doubt why Barrett hired him.

For the hypocrites known as "Wisconsin's Liberal Blogging Community," they will be pleased to know that Hyers is a Minnesota-native and a veteran of Democrat-Farmer-Labor (DFL) politics there.  I'm sure that apology to Walker Campaign Communications Director Jill Bader (and Tennessee native also with a record of being on winning campaigns) will be coming shortly about Barrett's inability to "Hire Local and Hire Wisconsin" is now been pointed out.

Does however make you wonder what color Favre jerseys will be worn around the Barrett Campaign office though...