Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simple thing: he listens. He fixes people with a steady gaze and, unlike most political operatives, does not cut them short. It is a disarming trait and not a parlor trick. Sasso actually takes what he hears and factors it into his plans. For he is, above all, a strategist, and any bit of stray information will be used to formulate his design...
...touch. In 1980 Sasso helped organize Ted Kennedy's challenge against Jimmy Carter and was an effective Kennedy field director in Iowa and New Jersey. Sasso then signed on for Dukakis' 1982 comeback attempt, helping create Mike II, the newly mellowed conciliator. Notes Alan Baron, a longtime Democratic strategist: "Sasso can deal with people who really dislike Dukakis." Sasso became the Governor's chief secretary, taking time off in 1984 to manage Geraldine Ferraro's ill-starred vice-presidential campaign. In Boston he used his rapport with local officials and his ability to muster a consensus to push Dukakis' legislative...
...Bird's well-organized opposition has raised $4.6 million so far, more than four times what her . supporters have gathered. The money has financed a flood of direct mail, but perhaps the most potent Bird-blasting weapon has been Crime Victims for Court Reform. Drawing on the savvy of Strategist Bill Roberts, a political consultant who co-managed Ronald Reagan's 1966 gubernatorial campaign, the group includes victims of crime and their families, in some cases the parents or spouses of murder victims. With the passion of bitter experience, they denounce Bird at public gatherings, and will swell the ranks...
...erased the lead Dukakis had enjoyed since mid-spring. The Vice President was able to perform that difficult trick by cracking, with negative attacks, the thin ice of support upon which Dukakis had been gliding. Dukakis is answering in kind. Last week he also rehabilitated his wily Bismarckian strategist, John Sasso, who was banished after confessing complicity in an under-the-table video attack exposing Joseph Biden's borrowed phrases...
HELP WANTED: Savvy, hard-nosed strategist desperately needed to jump-start stalled campaign. Experience in overcoming innate caution of button-down Greek candidate a must. Prior misdemeanors no problem. For the right stuff, we will take public guff. Contact Dukakis campaign...