Kelly Evans

Gov. Chris Gregoire

Gov. Chris Gregoire’s campaign manager, Kelly Evans, sent out a memo to the campaign’s staff and steering committee addressing the strategy they used to win re-election.

Evans points repeatedly to the hard work done by Gregoire’s camp, and suggests they had a massive ground game built to peak in late October. Evans also brags about having a "resilient" campaign that reacted to unprecedented amounts of negative spending against them from third parties and Dino Rossi’s campaign itself.

"Bottom line: We had planned and worked for over a year for this critical time period and everything went like clockwork," Evans said. "Our television and mail hit the right notes and targets and our ground game hit its stride while our opponents became increasingly negative."

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