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Clinton burns through millions as she assembles a political battleship
Washington Post ^ | July 16, 2015 | By Matea Gold and Anu Narayanswamy

Posted on 07/16/2015 7:32:19 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

In the first three months of her presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton has assembled a massive political battleship — hiring more than 400 staff members, collecting reams of expensive polling data and tapping top-flight consultants.

The details of her sprawling operation emerged this week in a newly filed campaign finance report. The documents showed that Clinton’s organization has spent nearly $19 million — or 40 percent of the $47 million it raised in its first quarter, a year and a half before the 2016 election.

Campaign officials said they needed to expand quickly to be able to weather a surprisingly competitive Democratic primary fight and intense general-election battle.

But the large expenditures cut against the image Clinton’s team has promoted of a lean organization that would not repeat the mistakes of what many considered her undisciplined campaign in 2008. And they raise questions about whether Clinton’s fundraising can keep pace with her rapid spending.

Clinton’s fundraising total between her mid-April announcement and June 30, the end of the quarter, reflected a much larger haul than that of any of her rivals in either party. But she will face a challenge in maintaining that pace: Two-thirds of her money from individuals came from contributors who have given the legal maximum and could not be tapped for additional donations until Clinton began fundraising for the general election. . .

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To: Snickering Hound

Outstanding !


21 posted on 07/16/2015 8:03:16 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
political battleship

She's got the hips for it!

22 posted on 07/16/2015 8:09:13 PM PDT by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: Snickering Hound

HMS Rodham


23 posted on 07/16/2015 8:12:53 PM PDT by henkster (Where'd my tagline go?)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I hope Trump swamps her boat . I hope he pays for so much dirt on her and reveals it all in a way that she is utterly buried by it . Forever . She deserves nothing less . The blood of those that died in Benghazi remains on HER hands


24 posted on 07/16/2015 8:31:36 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Brad from Tennessee

She can’t run a campaign any better than she could run the State Department. The ONLY thing she has ever had going for her is her marriage to a very slick-talking glad-hander named Bill.


25 posted on 07/16/2015 8:37:41 PM PDT by cookcounty ("I was a Democrat until I learned to count" --Maine Gov. Paul LePage)
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To: Delta 21

Paging Billy Mitchell ...


26 posted on 07/16/2015 9:00:00 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: KarlInOhio
"Sink her with a Cruz missile. "

If she's strapped in at the time, it won't sink.


27 posted on 07/16/2015 9:18:15 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: uglybiker

My gals a corker, she’s a New Yorker,
I spend all my money to keep her in style.
She’s got legs like two whiskey kegs,
And cankles for ankles—that’s how the money goes.
William Jefferson Clinton *

*[Impeached]


28 posted on 07/16/2015 9:38:18 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Her hips are like two battlewagons parked together.


29 posted on 07/16/2015 10:06:31 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: Moonman62

If you remember the story from the last Iowa primary episode....it was duly noted by the media that they spent a ton of money around Iowa, with dozens of their VIP players lounging in nicer hotels and just doing a lot of talking. None of it paid off with Iowa primary voters. This is simply another repeat.


30 posted on 07/16/2015 10:33:26 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Brad from Tennessee
The Bismarck!
31 posted on 07/16/2015 10:48:19 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really out to get you.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
She's one of the most despicable human being on this earth. A know liar who has no problem with throwing any cause she sees as threating her at the moment under the bus. Absolutely void of any scruples what so ever. Useless waste of breathable air!!!
32 posted on 07/17/2015 4:40:35 AM PDT by ontap
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To: Brad from Tennessee

She can spend all she wants but that won’t make people like her and that is her biggest problem. She is not a likable person and she is not trustworthy.


33 posted on 07/17/2015 4:44:13 AM PDT by IamConservative (There is no greater threat to our freedoms than Bipartisanship.)
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To: clearcarbon
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34 posted on 07/17/2015 4:44:32 AM PDT by ontap
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To: IamConservative

She’s everything one loves to hate!!!


35 posted on 07/17/2015 4:45:20 AM PDT by ontap
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To: ontap
[She's one of the most despicable human being on this earth. A know liar who has no problem with throwing any cause she sees as threating her at the moment under the bus. Absolutely void of any scruples what so ever. Useless waste of breathable air!!!]

All the characteristics of a sociopath.

36 posted on 07/17/2015 8:09:01 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

There are millions more where that came from.


37 posted on 07/17/2015 8:09:31 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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