DNC Denver Host Committee Short on Cash
Posted by: Flap in Barack Obama, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, President 2008
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., waves to the overflow crowd as she walks with campaign aide Huma Abedin, right, and a secret service agent at a campaign event in Huron, S.D., Thursday, May 29, 2008. Clinton is campaigning in the state in anticipation of the June 3rd South Dakota presidential primary election.
Flap can’t help but think the reason why Barack Obama has NOT agreed to pay off Hillary’s campaign debts (rumored by some to be over $30 million) is because he would decimate his own fundraising accounts AND the DNC would not be able to backfill him because they are out of money.
Millions of dollars behind in raising money and unlikely to meet a fast-approaching final deadline, the Denver committee hosting the Democratic National Convention is considering spending cuts.
Committee sources say they are working with the Democratic National Convention Committee to consider lowering the $55 million in private cash and donated services that must be raised to bring the convention to town. The cuts would be made to the many parties the host committee is obligated to throw for the delegations and the news media, and other hospitality functions not tied to production aspects inside the convention hall.
Howard Dean had done GREAT JOB in fundraising for the Democrat National Committee - NOT. And, so now Hillary goes on her merry way to beat up on Obama over and over again until the Denver Convention because Obama cannot afford to help pay her off.
Maybe Obam will have to change his mind again and accept public financing for his general election campaign - just to get rid of the Clintons.
Stay tuned…..
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May 31st, 2008 at 6:25 am
This is where I read that 30 million debt thing - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/clintondebt.html
Course, if Obama doesn’t want to play ball, the Clintons could always get that money from a publisher as an advance on another book about the great 2008 campaign…
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May 31st, 2008 at 9:53 am
The Clintons do not want to help the upstart Obama at all. If they can bleed him or the Democrat Party dry financially or wound him in the Midwest it is all good.
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:37 am
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June 27th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Obama has burned all his bridges.
He has antagonized Hillary’s supporter and her backers by boasting
about his ability to raise fortunes for himself, but he doesn’t say anything
about helping out the DNC or the citizens of the U.S. who are finding it
almost impossible to survive in the present economic climate.
He has aligned himself with some very dubious characters in his
personal and career life and he is not honest in his dealings even
with his own party, his own church, his own affilications or even
his own Black Race. Why would anyone want him to be the one
responsible for this country. That seal of his says it all.
He is just a web site, not a person. How can a web site get elected
as President of the United States, we need a genuine caring person
in the White House. According to Bill Clinton, perhaps Mandela
would be the best choice after all is said and done. He’s black,
so that should seal the deal. Amen. Alice Wolf.
November 4th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Alice.. he certainly has made more efforts with marketing in different verticals and mediums such as the many campaigns he has on the internet/web. Looking at it from a neutral standpoint, it almost seems to be mostly marketing without much to back it all up.
Joseph P.