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A former campaign manager of US President Bill Clinton will be in Guyana next week under the auspices of the Alliance For Change (AFC). The AFC intends to recruit him to head the party's campaign for the 2006 general elections.
When contacted yesterday, AFC Chairman Raphael Trotman confirmed that Dick Morris will head the AFC's campaign team.
Trotman did not elaborate but said Morris worked with Mexico 's President Vincente Fox, and also in the United Kingdom , Argentina and Japan .
Morris will now be bringing his skills to the AFC in an effort to boost the party's chances at the elections slated to be held no later than September 3, 2006.
Trotman said that Morris will hold a press conference during his visit to Guyana to give a more detailed outlook on how he intends to work with the AFC.
According to the Wikipedia Encyclopedia, Morris was born in New York City and is a political author and commentator who was once a successful pollster and campaign consultant.
Morris is best known for managing Bill Clinton's successful 1996 bid for re-election to the office of President of the United States . Morris has since turned his focus to media commentary.
He now writes a weekly column for the New York Post and appears regularly on the Fox News Channel.
The Wikipedia Encyclopedia said Morris has emerged as a harsh critic of the Clintons and has written several books that criticize them, including Rewriting History — a rebuttal to Senator Hillary Clinton's Living History. Morris first worked with Bill and Hillary Clinton during Bill Clinton's successful 1978 bid for Governor of Arkansas.
Though he did not work on Bill Clinton's unsuccessful re-election campaign in 1980, Morris helped him win back the governor's office in 1982 and continued to work with him in subsequent campaigns.
Morris did not have a role in Clinton 's successful 1992 presidential campaign, which instead was headed by James Carville and Paul Begala.
After the 1994 mid-term election where Republicans took control of both houses of Congress and gained considerable power in the states, Clinton once again sought Morris's help to prepare for the 1996 presidential election.
It was Morris who proposed a strategy of “triangulation”, where Bill Clinton would appeal to a diverse group of voters by distancing himself from both the Democratic and Republican parties.
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