Posted on 08/04/2017 6:09:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Hillary Clinton has hired two political operatives from her 2016 presidential campaign to help manage Onward Together, the project she founded this spring with former governor Howard Dean to fund and support a coalition of Democratic groups led by activists and organizers.
The new additions, Emmy Ruiz and Adam Parkhomenko, held central roles on Clinton’s campaign: Ruiz delivered key victories as state director in Nevada during the primary and in Colorado during the general election; Parkhomenko worked in headquarters as her director of grassroots engagement before moving to the Democratic National Committee. Both served on Clinton’s first presidential bid in 2008.
Dean, the Onward Together co-founder, confirmed the recent hires on Friday.
The group, registered in May as a 501c4 organization with an affiliated super PAC, is working to establish a small but diverse cooperative of about 10 to 12 grassroots efforts, each one focused on a different area of the energy and activism set off by Donald Trump’s election and presidency. Dean said they are still in the process vetting groups to add to the coalition, which already includes organizations such as Swing Left, Emerge America, and Run For Something.
Ruiz, last with Tom Perez’s successful campaign for DNC chair, has been working to systemize and add structure to that process, steering the process and guiding next steps, while also working the collection of outside groups.
“She’s moving us right on task, which is what we really needed,” said Dean.
Parkhomenko, a longtime Clinton loyalist who founded the PAC Ready For Hillary in early 2013, will focus on the larger political landscape for both Onward Together and, tangentially, Clinton’s activity on behalf of Democrats, looking at the question of how, when, and where she can be helpful to candidates in upcoming races.
Both former campaign aides will be working as consultants.
That Clinton play a role at all in electoral politics after her failed 2016 campaign is a source of debate among Democrats, some of whom have said that the former candidate needs to step back, clearing the way for new voices in politics. Clinton, however, has made it clear she is receding entirely into private life: She has made headlines for pointed remarks about Trump and Russia and has a memoir coming out next month that aides have described as a candid, at times raw account of the Democratic primary fight and her race against Trump.
Clinton has received at least one request to campaign on behalf of Phil Murphy, the Democratic candidate for governor in New Jersey, according to a Democrat close the campaign there. In the 2018 midterm elections, there will be races in 23 congressional districts that Clinton carried at the top of the ticket but Republicans held down-ballot.
Ruiz and Parkhomenko, who both started their work at Onward Together this summer, will join a small core team that includes Dean, the former Vermont governor and DNC chair, along with Judith McHale, an undersecretary under Clinton at the State Department, and Amy Rao, a Silicon Valley businesswoman and a longtime supporter and donor. The aides in Clinton’s New York office, including former campaign vice chair Huma Abedin, finance director Dennis Cheng, and press secretary Nick Merrill, are also working on the project.
Dean and McHale in particular have been working on vetting groups, which are expected to submit a budget for funding and provide a full account of their activity and management setup.
Clinton and her aides have also spent the summer on her new memoir, What Happened, which comes out in September and will be followed by a book tour.
Some of the fundraising work has already started, “but it’s been slow going because we’ve all been so busy,” said Dean. “Now that we’ve got some staff it’s really terrific. Somebody had to have the big picture, and that would now be Emmy and Adam."
I guess she got bored hiking
The klintons are like flies, they don’t leave you alone until you kill them.
I hope she hires all of those losers from her failed campaign. Way to go Hill!
America’s enemies will take power again (probably 2024, but perhaps 2028). When they do, real Americans need to go all-out with resistance. Compliance with illegitimate laws has gone way too far. If they won’t even follow appropriate laws and standards, and accept the reality that evil lost on Election Day, why should we even give lip service to the mission creep of Ctrl-Left big government once they are back in office?
Don’t they ever get sick of this commie crap?
Just amazing all the crap this country has had to go through just because this doughy dowager can’t admit that people don’t like her.
Another grifting scam.
And yet another BIG MONEY laundering operation disguised as a PAC with no stated objective.
Inexplicably POTUS said after the election she has “been through enough”. That’s one of the most naive things anybody could say about a Clinton. Meanwhile she still runs her criminal enterprise and does everything in her power to undermine the President. She and her ilk belong in prison. Why are we always the nice guys when the other side will do anything to harm this country? You better believe when they get power back,there will be Hell to pay. Liberals are pure evil and a grave threat to the Republic.
Good luck with your new gig.
You can never have too many different ways to raise money.
She got uncomfortable hiking in the woods. She knows how many are out there but not exactly where they are buried.
Clinton and her aides have also spent the summer on her new memoir, What Happened, which comes out in September and will be followed by a book tour.
Is Hillary going to come up with more excuses for having lost the election??
I’ve heard some grumbling among Democrats that they are sick and tired of the magical mystery tour of Hillary explaining again and again how she lost the election.
And the reasons revolve around, how the Democrat establishment tilted the delegate selection process to her, so that Bernie Sanders was frozen out. And also, these Democrats, with their disdain for Trump, and failure to believe he could win the election, can’t figure out how ANY Democrat could have lost to what they regard as a fatally flawed candidate in Trump.
I wonder if her book will end up in the 99 cent bargain bin the week after it’s released.
Her last book didn’t sell well. I can’t believe that too many are eager to see what Hillary’s ghostwriter has come up with, as far as the latest reasons/excuses for losing what should have been an easy election, per their disdain for Trump.
“Sedition” PAC. GITMO has lots of room.
I'm going to take a wild guess he's linked to Harry Reid's machine.
Clinton’s Nevada organization is headed by Emmy Ruiz, a member of the Mook Mafia who started out as a field organizer in Las Vegas in June 2007. She ended up running Latino outreach in the state for Mook before the 2008 caucuses and returned to Nevada to manage Obama’s winning general election effort there in 2012. “She went to the Robby Mook school of political organizing,” says Rory Reid, the son of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid who served as Clinton’s 2008 Nevada state chairman and is supporting her informally this year. “Robby’s influence is significant.
She’s still trying to make money from politics?
More money laundering
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