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21 August 2014

Amanda Curtis hires campaign manager, raises $110,000

Amanda Curtis has hired 28-year-old Clayton Elliott to manage her campaign for the U.S. Senate. Elliott is the outreach director of the Billings based League of Rural Voters, which appears to be associated with the Northern Plains Resource Council, where he worked as a field organizer in 2012.

The press release announcing Elliott’s hiring describes him as an “experienced grassroots organizer” but did not report whether he had ever managed a political campaign. I suspect he has not.

There probably won’t be many people over 30 on her paid staff. This campaign might resemble a children’s crusade, at least to eyes as old as mine.

$110,000 in just four days

The press release also reported Curtis has raised $110,000 in the last four days. That’s a good start. But she needs to raise 20 times as much, and she needs to raise it yesterday.