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Article: Steele campaign official resigns: Communications chief is 2nd top aide to leave.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- February 18, 2006
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Byline: Jennifer Skalka
Feb. 18--Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele lost his communications director this week, marking the second top-level staffer to leave his U.S. Senate campaign since the beginning of the year.
Leonardo Alcivar, who served since October as Steele's spokesman, resigned Wednesday.
A veteran of New York politics who worked for Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, Alcivar was a much-heralded addition to Steele's team, helping launch the lieutenant governor's campaign.
The latest departure comes just a week after Steele, a Republican, offended an audience of Baltimore Jewish leaders when he compared embryonic stem cell research to the ...