campaign workers

One of my fellow bloggers here on BlueNC made the following statement in reference to Jay Parmley and the turmoil at Goodwin House:

When you've got hundreds of intelligent, dedicated, native Party officers from which to choose, selecting a "roving free agent" who arrived here via Oklahoma, Mississippi and South Carolina might not be the best way to motivate the grassroots

I have been making this argument for years, not just for the state party but for campaigns and other Democratic aligned groups. It seems to me that we have had a string of staffers at NCDP headquarters and our campaigns that are little more than mercenaries and hired guns.