But interviews with Mr. Cain's former staff members, volunteers and supporters give a glimpse of a candidate who appeared to show ambivalence toward basic campaign management, which led to problems in hiring, scheduling, fund-raising and messaging.
Ms. Reno, who is widely expected to win the Sept. 10 Democratic primary and face Gov. Jeb Bush, the Republican incumbent, chose Mo Elleithee to oversee campaign strategy, field operations, scheduling, fund-raising and communications.
Until Thursday, Mr. McCain's globetrotting congressional trip had brought a halt to his fund-raising activities; the campaign, well aware of the huge sums of cash raised by Democrats this year, had been scheduling fund-raiser nearly every day back home.
He has scheduled fund-raising visits next week to Alabama, Texas and California.
But they have nonetheless scheduled fund-raising events well into September, and as far away as Dallas, Nashville, Chicago and Puerto Rico.
Stuck in Detroit after the airport in Boston closed, he missed a scheduled fund-raising event in Keene.
Mr. Hanes defined an arts council as "multiple arts management" & explained what that meant--mainly coordination of schedules, fund-raising, & publicity for various forms of the arts.
The letter, signed by Captain Gelfman, said: "After discussion we felt it in the best interest of the company, department and community to cancel our scheduled fund-raiser".
Just thinking about schedules, funding, landlords and lawyers is a new experience for MacIsaac, who on previous projects worked with the support of Neighborhood Restaurant Group.
The recital will mark the official start of the opera company's 20th-anniversary season and is the first of several scheduled fund-raising events.
Mr. Huckabee has scheduled fund-raisers in Texas and Florida, and his campaign has said it is getting so many requests from supporters to hold fund-raisers that it cannot schedule them all.
