Posted on 03/30/2006 1:56:33 PM PST by Peach
HILLARY RAISES BIG BUCKS IN TEXAS BUSH COUNTRY. Senator Clinton did a great deal of fundraising around the country in March, and her private fundraising schedule -- which was passed along by a source -- shows that she raked in big bucks in that most impenetrable of red-state strongholds: Texas. The schedule lists a dozen events in four states, in the space of just two months, March and April. This is very significant, because all the activity shows just how determined Hillary's advisers are to stockpile an enormous campaign warchest at a time when she is facing only token opposition for reelection in 2006 -- something which of course will only fuel speculation that her fundraising right now is also about scaring off potential Dem challengers in 2008.
On March 21, the schedule shows, Hillary quietly slipped off to Texas for an unpublicized swing through that state, where the junior senator from the ultimate blue state raked in as much as $4,200-per-person in some of the most red-hued of venues. For instance, one event was a breakfast at, of all places, the Dallas Petroleum Club, a mahogany-festooned enclave whose president was once Ray Hunt, a top Bush fundraiser and oilman. She also had a fundraising event at a barbeque in San Antonio and an event crowded with high-tech entrepreneurs in Austin (the state capitol where Bush presided as Texas governor).
Here's something interesting. A source familiar with the Austin event tells me that at least one attendee was surprised by the fact that many who showed up were Republican women, lots of them first-time donors. I mention this not to argue that Hillary has crossover appeal, but to show how aggressively her fundraisers are working to tap diverse constituencies around the country. Her schedule also shows events in Washington, DC, Rhode Island, and Missouri -- an amount of national activity that, for someone who's so far ahead in polls and money for reelection, is striking.
--Greg Sargent
This is probably Republicans raising money for Hillary, just so she can win the nomination but lose the White House.
Did the senator thank Ronnie Earl in the back room or out in pubic?
A fool and her money are soon parted.
Big deal...Big State with lots of moron dem libs willing to support the Hildabeast. Delusional groupthink isn't solely confined to the east and west coasts.
Sure. You got a bridge to sell me, too?
Woopdee doo!!!!!
As far as elections go, yes it is impenetrable, as far as liberals go, there are plenty.
The deepest pockets among the politicos in Texas are the Democrat lawyers. I think they account for something like 15 of the top 20 givers.
And something like 10 of them got money out of the state's Tobacco settlement (the lawyers split something like a billion dollars).
Could be interesting to see just who gave.
Democrats may not be able to be elected in Texas but it doesn't mean that there aren't Democrats in Texas.
BUMP
Don't believe the part about Republican women...we may be Texans, but we aren't dumb.
And, the part about Austin being where Bush lived when he was Governor? SO????
Austin is like Boulder, Colorado, or San Francisco, California...EVERY state probably has their LEFTY city.
AND, I have news, just breaking---Bush did NOT get 100% of the vote from Texas in 2000 or 2004.
Democrats raise lots of money in Texas.... Lots of Plaintiff attorneys with cash to hand out.
George Bush had a baseball team in the Dallas-Ft.Worth Metroplex. The SAME part of the state where Oswald killed Kennedy (whispered voice "KENNEDY").
Yeah but...since when has the media ever wanted to factually report anything? If the can't "distort by report" or sensationalize a story to the benefit of the liberal agenda...u r not going to hear and/or read about it.
If Her Thighness wins, Ronnie is my bet for Attorney General.
Before anyone gets too concerned, these are very likely mostly idle "corporate wives" who develop liberal passions so they can hang with the fashionables in Austin--the "film industry", etc. I happen to know one of these who wants badly to rub elbows with the "Spy Kids" guy. Soros also spends a lot of money on Austin "documentarians."
It's a social thing for the preachy Mrs. Bill Gates types, only in the blue pimple in an otherwise red state.
IIRC, the aged chorus girl looking thingee, (Ann Richards?) also raised alot of money. Texas is, unfortunately, also home to some rich democrats.
lots of stupid people who have moved to our state calling themselves Texans.
Big freaking deal. I can assure you TEXAS is still BUSH country. That is why he will be picking SMU for his library, located in Dallas Tx.
I hear what you're saying. What I never really can get a handle on is how much those soccer type moms want a female president and what they're willing to sacrifice in order to see one in the White House.
It was largely those soccer moms who got Clinton elected. Twice. So I don't have a lot of faith in them.
Shouldn't she be working?
Hill's the one to beat. It will be very difficult to stop her since there are no good GOP candidates in the bull pen itching to run against her.
I really like Senator Cornyn, but don't know if he has the interest in running. But he's got it all, imo.
I wasn't paying full attention so I can't claim this is perfectly accurate:
But I heard on Fox news yesterday that Barbra Streisand alone has promised to personally raise a minimum of ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS for Hillary's campaign, by going back on the concert tour.
And it being set up that everyone purchasing a ticket is actually making a personal donation to the hillary campaign, therby circumventing campaign donation limits.
And apparently Hillary hates Streisand personally because Bill was boffing Streisand in the White House while Hillary was elsewhere.
I'm just real concerned since there aren't a slug of GOP candidates falling all over themselves to get noticed. If ever there was a time for a candidate to salivate it's now since there will be no VP to run (unless Cheney has plans that I'm unaware of).
The website posting this is a liberal one. Article is designed to look like they have a foothold here - WHICH THEY DO NOT.
I remember when Bob Dole ran against Clinton. I'm convinced the Republicans knew that no one could beat Clinton and so they let someone whose "turn" it was, so to speak, run for the presidency.
And I'm afraid the GOP, which has shown itself to be absolutely gutless and spineless, will not run any candidates really hard against her.
Glad to know that information!
The comments on the article are pretty funny..
I think your half right
They're paying her to leave?
Surely you jest. Hillary is absolutely unelectable...she's a pipe dream by the media driven frenzied lefties.
she would draw few voters...and there's been plenty of analysis done to as proof of that...just google it...or search this site for references to Hillary's inability to win a national election. She's too scandal ridden, to much a marxist, and to unsympathetic a person to every win the Presidency.
Any likable, well spoken, bright GOP candidate will crush her on the issues alone...never mind her scandal plagued life.
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Little link at the bottom of that post takes you here:
http://www.prospect.org/cgi-bin/movabletype/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=9646
If anyone has access to the donors and amounts H got in Texas, I'd love to see it. Pretty soon, I believe, we'll start to see donations and donors on the net the day after a fundraiser.
Those are pretty funny; I'll have to finish reading later.
I worry about how many usually staunch conservative women will vote for Hillary just because she is a woman.
Case in point:
My EX-wife was a very good conservative, voted Republican straight ticket most times, espoused strong conservative values at every opportunity.
Yet she voted for Janet Napolitano for Governor in Arizona because she thought it was important for a woman to get into high office....
And get this: She knew Napolitano personally (as a patient) and absolutely despised her as an arrogant, nasty, rude b...uh. witch.
So, that makes me wonder how many other women with good political instincts will vote based on gender rather than what they know is sane.
It's enough to make me despair that women ever got the vote. I hear stories like this fairly frequently. And I'm the opposite (so hopefully there are more women like me to balance the soccer mom types out) -- I'm less likely to want a woman in the WH just because she's a woman.
Nope. Of all the Republican women in Austin, two were at home with me and the third assures me she was in Lockhart, picking up her new dog.
Agreed, plenty of fruits and nuts in that town.
Streisand also raised money for McGovern. Didn't help him much, did it?
I hope you are right, but I would not underestimate her. Widow Carnahan comes to mind. Bill could suffer a "heart attack" as an October surprise and Hill skates with sympathy vote.
Being Senator is soooo cool. You can run around the country on the taxpayer's dime raising money for your next campaign and you don't even have to bother with actually being a Senator.
LOL...that baseball team's stadium was paid for partly by ME...in my sales tax..
The first time I ever saw George Bush was in his box at the ballpark, LONG before he was Governor of Texas..
His library will probably be only a few miles from Kennedy's assasination point.
Seriously, even Mitt Romney would kill her in a national election.
Bill, again, has the benefit of media hype as to his stature in the US...he's not as "liked" as the media would have the masses beleive. So, I doubt cigar boy keeling over would generate the type of sympathy that leads to the voting booth.
She's unelectable on a national stage...and the dems are delusional if they think she is. It's pretty clear she's a nutter..so, she'll try and run...but, those of us who know full well the DOOM she'd bring upon this nation if she ever holds its highest office personally...will take action to make sure that never happens (PERIOD).
I pray you are right... or else I want to puke!
I pray you are right... or else I want to puke!
Hillary is hunting?
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