So much for the stealth campaign.
"I'm disappointed that my party did not support me at the convention," Simmons said. "I get the message,'' Simmons told Hearst Newspapers' Neil Vigdor.
If he is still in the game, he'd be running a pretty meager campaign. Nearly all of his staffers have decamped to other positions -- the latest being spokesman Raj Shah, who just landed a new gig as communications director for Susana Martinez, a Republican running for governor of New Mexico.