Minnick’s Manager Is In Vogue

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Walt Minnick’s campaign manager, Karen White, is one of two female campaign managers profiled in the August edition of Vogue magazine.

Democratic pollster Celinda Lake estimates women are managing at least half of the nation’s 468 Senate and House races, according to the magazine. Minnick, a millionaire Boise businessman, is running against first-term Republican Sen. Larry Craig.

White told the magazine she is the highest-paid campaign manager in Idaho history. “Her self-negotiated contract includes $9,000 a month, $500 for housing, a rented car and a new laptop computer that she gets to keep even if Minnick loses,” the magazine reported.

Vogue said White, who started working for Minnick in January, gets a $20,000 bonus if he wins.

Craig’s campaign manager, Mike Reynoldson, gets $4,583 a month. Reynoldson was executive director for the Idaho Republican Party before joining Craig in January. He said he will get a bonus of $7,000 if Craig wins a second Senate term.

“And the warm feeling in my heart of being a Republican,” he says. “That’s it.”

The job demands “the stamina of a camel, the focus of a monk, a competitive streak of a fighter pilot and the organizational skills of Martha Stewart,” the magazine said.