Staff Notes

The Ferrer campaign's split with Leonard Joseph, a political aide allied with Bill Lynch who also worked for John Kerry, has some insiders grumbling that Joseph -- who left after taking the blame for a screw-up involving a claimed endorsement from Joe Hynes -- got a raw deal. So Joseph's friends were pleased to see that when John Kerry came to town last night to headline a couple of Ferrer fundraisers, the first person the Senator asked to see was ... Joseph. Who, obviously, wasn't there. Kerry aides called him, and Kerry was seen leaving the second fundraiser deep in conversation with his, and Freddy's, former aide.