Posted on 07/18/2005 2:07:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Where are the Hamptons Deaniacs? Some of New York’s wealthiest Dem contributors were no-shows at a $5,000-per-couple Amagansett DNC fund-raiser Howard Dean hosted at the home of Margo and Robert Alexander on July 9—prompting worries that the donor elite are shutting their wallets to protest Dean’s shoot-from-the-lip party leadership. Sources say big-shot supporters Hassan Nemazee, Robert Zimmerman, Carl Spielvogel, and Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel played hooky. “Dean grew up in the Hamptons, and it was his first time back as chair, so he should have filled the room,” concedes a DNC official. “DNC staffers were really disappointed. It spoke to the lack of confidence in Dean among the donor leadership.” DNC spokesperson Karen Finney responds, “It was wonderfully successful and gave the governor a chance to really listen to what people had to say. Unfortunately, due to other plans, those folks couldn’t attend."—
"Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel"
Say that name three times fast!
Damn, I was hoping the money would be wasted!
Now if he had this at a hotel I'm sure he would have had a full house.
“It was wonderfully successful and gave the governor a chance to really listen to what people had to say."
One does tend to get the "chance to really listen" when you're nearly one-to-one, LOL.
I think she just goes by Barbara Lee. But I thought she lived on the other coast.
When I think about the DNC these days, and read pieces like this and today's posted article about the Dems' fundraising falling far behind the Republicans' I picture the dark tower collapsing at the end of Return of the King, to Howard Shore's triumphant score.
LOL
I bet the reason they didn't show up is because they have been told to give their money directly to Hillary...
I seem to remember a thread a few days ago, that was about how FAST and how MUCH money that Hillary has "raised" in the last couple of months....
I was playing HALO2 with my boys the other day, when one of the marines in the game was attacked by an alien. I kid you not, but the Marine screamed the Howard Dean screem. AIIIEEYYYYYEEAAGGHHHH!!!!!! They put the sound from the scream into the game. My son and I (also a freeper) died laughing at their ingenuity.
This is a huge disappointment for the Bikepathian Prophet.
Bob Zimmerman?
Do you mean the one and only Shabtai Zisel ben Avraham v'Rachel Riva?
It's Barbaralee. And she maintains residences on both coasts, dahhling.
Why doesn't Dean just take is perscriptions forms with him and write one ot more for each person with a medical problem who writes a check? He can't have an ethical problem with that. He doesn't have an ethical problem with anything, he's a dem.
Strategic error...... he should have held it in August when everybody is there..
I bet the reason they didn't show up is because they have been told to give their money directly to Hillary...
Ain't it great!
"Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel""
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