Posted on 06/08/2005 9:04:13 AM PDT by CHARLITE
DEMOCRATIC WALLWEED
Judging by where Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean has spent the last few days, he almost certainly attempted to get invited to Sen. Hillary Clinton's and Sen. Harry Reid's fundraising events in Los Angeles. According to DNC sources, Dean intentionally planned a West Coast swing around the dates Clinton and Reid had circled for their events. On Sunday, Dean was in Seattle, a quick shot down the Left Coast to Los Angeles, with plans to fly to San Francisco for events Monday. Before Seattle, Dean spent time with Democratic donors in Montana.
There is an increasing whiff of desperation permeating the finance side of the DNC, what with Dean apparently feeling like the nerd at a fraternity rush party scooted off to a room to hang with the foreign kid and the nosepicker, and big-time DNC fundraisers jumping ship like rats sensing something is amiss. On Monday it was announced that three high-profile fundraising officials were leaving Dean in the lurch: Bridget Siegel, finance director for the New York metropolitan area (including parts of Long Island, Westchester County, and Connecticut), Lori Kreloff, finance director for California, and Nancy Eiring, director of grassroots fundraising.
Eiring is perhaps the least surprising to jump, given Dean's personal interest in grassroots donors, but Eiring was credited with building up a first-class grassroots donor list over the past two years.
Siegel is expected to play a high profile role in both the Andrew Cuomo campaign for state attorney general, as well as some role in a potential run by Hillary Clinton for the presidency. Siegel was embarrassed after organizing a major donor event in Manhattan earlier this year for Dean. But the response rate for the event was less than 30 percent, and the event was moved from the Jacob Javits Center to a more intimate hotel ballroom.
"Siegel did a great job for Dean, and instead, his people complain about what was going on in New York," says a Democratic operative in New York. "None of the problems were her. It's all Dean, all the time."
Kreloff is not believed to have had anything to do with the snubs of Dean in the recent round of fundraisers in California, though again, the events Dean attended in Seattle and San Francisco were far smaller than the DNC had expected when they initially made the plans for them.
I am coming to the conclusion that mr Dean is Rove plant! There is no other explanation. Or maybe he is positioning himself so far to the left that it would make Hillary a moderate by comparison. Given that the Rats are in a state of civil war between the Clinton camp and the Kennedy's (who despise Dean!) it is possible that Dean is a Clinton operative since MCauliffe left (and he was a Clinton boy as well!)
The toll-free number from the DNC Website for questions about donations is 877-336-7200.
I tried to call but got put on hold for five minutes. I was wondering if they accept donations from white Christians?
Or hard-working Republicans?
The money is being moved to 527's. The MSM will carry the rest of the load. Howie is there to keep the whackos entertained. Fundraising is not really his job anymore.
The one flaw is that it is the role of the Chairman to recruit people to the party, not merely fundraise. In that respect they are in trouble. Dean cannot recruit normal people needed to win elections.
CFR has rfactionalized the Democrat coalition so badly they have no choice but to repeal it. They are trapped in their own social constructs that allow them no manueverability except to push further ahead in restricting 527 and PAC activities.
Dean represents the true spirit of today's Democratic party-- shrill,ignorant, mean, and radically left wing. Don't know how this guy managaged to get the job, but I'm glad he did. He tells people more about the real Democrat agenda than the party's faux moderates ever will.
No. Dean says what every Democrat would like to say. And there's no way for the party to mobilize its base without a daily dose of moonbat rhetoric.
As for Dean, the 'shot-in -the-foot' scream continues. . .
Or hard-working Republicans?
Or Republicans with Brain Waves...
or minorities that don't work in hotels.
Stick with me on this one - she has the executive for four years and most of the newspapers in the country screaming "obstructionism!" every time the Republican majority tries to stop her programs, a major push in 2010 for a Dem majority in both houses and another one in 2012 for her second term.
It may not sound like much of a plan for those convinced that she's unelectable, but I'm not sure about that at all - I think she's eminently electable. And another Clinton presidency with a majority of Dems in both houses would wreck this country for decades and possibly for good.
......which is why I'm personally devoting most of my time, now until election day of 2008, to do everything in my little, individual power to stop this major threat to America!
Do people realize how close George Soros has been to the Clintons......for years?!
Thanks, Bill. It's very important to keep featuring this topic..........and I'm very hopeful that the new book about the Killster will deal a mortal blow to her political ambitions.
Char :)
Heh. Sometimes I wonder if the whole Democrat Party is not a plant of the Republicans . . . sometimes.
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