Posted on 04/22/2005 8:34:16 PM PDT by doug from upland
David Rosen President and CEO Competence Group Inc. AGE: 35
The 10 summers David Rosen spent ringing doorbells to sell books turned out to be good preparation for raising tens of millions of dollars for the Gore-Lieberman ticket, Hillary Clinton's Senate race and other prominent Democratic candidates.
At Southwestern Co., a Nashville, Tenn.-based direct sales firm that has trained thousands of college students during its 132-year history, Mr. Rosen got to the point where he made sales at five of every six households he called on. He still holds the record for first-year sales, according to Dan Moore, Southwestern's marketing vice-president. The firm's alumni include two current governors, a senator and former Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr.
"He's the most dedicated, hard-working, organized person I've met in a long time," say Chicago lawyer Myron "Mike" Cherry, a veteran Democratic fund-raiser and general counsel for the gubernatorial campaign of Rep. Rod Blagojevich, D-Chicago, for which Mr. Rosen has helped raise about $1 million outside Illinois. "And he's got a Rolodex that would rival (former President) Clinton's," Mr. Cherry says.
What sets Mr. Rosen and his Chicago-based company, Competence Group Inc., apart is his application of business discipline, training and sales techniques to the art of fund raising.
"I can't talk someone into giving money," says Mr. Rosen. "You just have to call a tremendous amount of people and find those who are interested."
He caught the political bug while taking a political science course taught by David Wilhelm, a longtime Chicago-based political consultant who chairs the Blagojevich campaign.
Mr. Rosen credits his success to Southwestern's rigorous training.
"You can use it whether you're selling airplanes, insurance or politicians," he says.
PAUL MERRION
If Zell Miller had merely wanted to clear the way for Hillary in '08, there are other ways he could have done it without condemning the entire Democratic party the way he did.
Post #10 is especially interesting. Thanks for the ping.
Well Bush Sr. couldn't get around that constitutional amendment (against a third Clinton term) in 2000, so he put up his own son as a patsy to be sort of a place-holder until such time that Hillary could assume the throne (she had to get at least a senate term under her belt and Bush Sr. conspired with Rudy Guiliani - another Clinton operative - to get her a seat in New York.
The only fly in the ointment was that Al Gore. That renegade just wouldn't go along with the master plan and he almost screwed up everything for Hillary. But fortunately, Bush Sr. has some operatives in Florida (not to mention one of his other sons) that were able to save the day.
The 9/11 attacks again complicated matters. As well, the junior Bush just wouldn't cooperate fully, much to the dismay of his father. 2004 was supposed to be Hillary's year but darn it, his son just wouldn't stop acting presidential and the darn fool got himself re-elected!
But fortunately (for the Clinton conspirators), that constitutional amendment limiting a president to two terms is coming back into play. Thus the road is clear for George Bush Sr. to install Hillary into the White House for 2008, barring any futher renegade moves by his unpredictable son.
I believed that once she knew the facts, she would see how valuable I was to her and welcome me into her inner circle. The whole thing was intended to be solely for my benefit. I never wanted to hurt her. I could tell she wasn't entirely comfortable with this conversation, and yet I couldn't stop. It wasn't until much later that I fully realized what I had done. Whatever protection her staff had built around her, however much in the dark they had kept her, that was over.
Now she knew.
Oh good grief. What nonsense.
We need to save this to our Hillary files and make sure that the MSM doesn't get away with a "she didn't know" defense.
You are kidding, aren't you?
If not, I know a good doctor who makes house calls.
reverse psychology???? :)
I guess he wants to live to play with his dogs in the grass.
He spoke only of her "intelligence" and "purposefulness". It was sad.
That's all extremely.... possible. I'm in no position to know for sure, but I'm willing to study the math carefully, and if 2+2 makes 4... then you're probably right.
"Dick Morris supposedly turned on the Clintons."
Whoever is paying Dick Morris, is whose side he's on.
Hi Steve. Please add an Option C to your homepage. Your take on Zell Miller had me laughing so hard, I simply had to click in to see if you were a joke writer for Jay Leno.
UGH!!
You look up"slut" in the dictionary........... if the word is there at all, Dick Morris' picture will be right there.
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Look under toe-sucker also.
Great article. Reggie was probably still wired while working on Kerry's campaign. That could become interesting. It will also be interesting to know who was trying to get money from foreign nationals. The Clintons wouldn't do that, would they?
Thanks.
Dick Morris is a merc, he works for whichever side pays better.
BUMP!
ping for Lee.
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