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Activists bristle at Hillary Clinton fundraising pleas
Politico ^ | 2/14/15

Posted on 02/14/2015 8:56:42 AM PST by Impala64ssa

Constant solicitations for cash in the absence of an actual candidate aren’t sitting well.

In early November, with her party on the eve of an electoral walloping, Democrat Mary Tetreau had had enough. The Londonderry, New Hampshire activist was sick of the constant emails begging for money for a candidate who wasn’t even running for office yet.

When another plea landed in her inbox the day before the election, she unsubscribed.

“I’m not going to be ready for Hillary until she announces she’s running for president,” said Tetreau, a three-decade veteran of New Hampshire primary politics, who called Ready for Hillary’s early-and-often email approach “annoying.”

Three months later, Hillary Clinton remains officially undeclared, but her campaign-in-waiting’s emails continue to flood inboxes of Democratic activists in early voting states. Though it amounts to little more than a nuisance in the grand scheme of the 2016 election, it does point to a downside of Clinton’s strategy of staying out of the public eye while her supporters campaign on her behalf. Namely, that it could create Clinton fatigue among activists and fuel concerns that she’s taking the Democratic nomination for granted.

“I’ll be ready for Hillary when Hillary’s ready for Hillary,” said Bill Verge, a Democratic activist who played a key role in John Kerry’s 2004 New Hampshire campaign. Like Tetreau, Verge, who said he has been “inundated with emails daily,” counts himself a likely Clinton supporter — but one turned off by the aggressive fundraising on behalf of a candidate who appears intent on postponing an official entry into the race possibly until July.-snip-Tension over fundraising in Clinton’s political apparatus spilled out into the open this week when Clinton loyalist David Brock resigned from the board of the pro-Clinton Priorities USA.

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KEYWORDS: campaignfundraising; davidbrock; fundraising; hilary; hillary2016
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I think she's taking a cue from Richard Nixon's 1968 playbook.

Pat Buchanan describes this in The Comeback, his account of that presidential race.

Nixon let Romney embarrass himself on the public stage for months, then swept in as a "fresh" face and secured the nomination.

21 posted on 02/14/2015 9:40:07 AM PST by OddLane
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To: OddLane

She is a vile old hag and will not have a good ending.


22 posted on 02/14/2015 9:45:14 AM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: OddLane

Well, maybe Hillary’s strategy will work.

But, hard to think of Hillary as a fresh face. She’s been a polarizing figure on the national political scene since the Clintons ran for president in 1992.


23 posted on 02/14/2015 9:47:53 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego; laplata
My friend Michael Malice summed it up perfectly, IMO.
24 posted on 02/14/2015 9:51:03 AM PST by OddLane
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To: Impala64ssa

Lesse. Hitlery or another dumb Bush. Hmm. I’m at the cafeteria and have a vege choice of brussel sprouts or spinach. I don’t like either.


25 posted on 02/14/2015 10:02:22 AM PST by LouAvul ("GOP" is an acronym for "We had our nuts cut off and lost our spine in the process.")
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To: laplata

I think she’s running. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, Clintons gotta run for political office.


26 posted on 02/14/2015 10:56:20 AM PST by twister881
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To: OddLane

My friend Michael Malice summed it up perfectly, IMO.


LOL I love it. Thanks for sharing.


27 posted on 02/14/2015 11:09:47 AM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: twister881

Very true. Even if it kills her.


28 posted on 02/14/2015 11:10:19 AM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Warren will take her out.


29 posted on 02/15/2015 10:06:19 AM PST by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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