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."
...”And yet another BIG MONEY laundering operation disguised as a PAC with no stated objective.”...
Your wisdom speaks. Thank you.
Stroke out already.
Skank
She won’t stop til she’s 6 feet under.
...then Chelsea will take over.
Where the HELL is AG Sessions?
Adam Parkhomenko...
Hmmm...
Isn’t Adam Parkhomenko a RUSSIAN name?
Isn’t Parkhomenko a Russian name?
Haven’t heard of this guy before...
Was it really a good idea to title the Hillary Clinton memoir with the same words nearly every drunk says upon regaining consciousness?
“What happened?!”
You guess well, Can you take a jab at next week’s lottery numbers for me?
I boldly predict that they will be something greater than 1 and less than 1 billion :-)
I was wondering if he is any relation to Russian journalist Sergei Parkhomenko
Ah, you are so daring...
Found this old article... interesting smart arse tweets
Exclusive: Why GOP operative Mike Caputo calls out Brian Fallon, Adam Parkhomenko for their Russia hoaxing
By Neil W. McCabe - BIG LEAGUE POLITICS, Oct 26, 2017
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/exclusive-gop-operative-mike-caputo-calls-brian-fallon-adam-parkhomenko-russia-hoaxing/
When Caputo’s friend and sometimes business partner Paul Manafort joined the Trump campaign, the Clinton campaign ramped up the Russia connection, because Manafort had been a consultant with the pro-Russian Ukrainian president, whose 2014 overthrow in m President Barack Obama supported.
Caputo, who also did consulting work in Ukraine, said his contacts in that country told him that Americans, who seemed to be linked to the Clinton campaign and were asking around for dirt on Trump and Manafort.
In addition to the attacks from the Clinton campaign, Rep. Jackie Speier (D.-Calif.) accused Caputo of working as Putin’s image consultant and cited his wife’s Ukrainian background as proof of his malfeasance. Caputo posted the opening statement from his July 14 testimony on his blog PoliticsNY.
The "Americans who seemed to be linked to the Clinton campaign" would likely include the aforementioned Chalupa.
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