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DEMOCRATIC WALLWEED - (top Dem movers & shakers avoiding Dr. Demonic; desperation in party)
AMERICAN SPECTATOR.ORG ^ | JUNE 8, 2005 | THE PROWLER

Posted on 06/08/2005 9:04:13 AM PDT by CHARLITE

DEMOCRATIC WALLWEED

Judging by where Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean has spent the last few days, he almost certainly attempted to get invited to Sen. Hillary Clinton's and Sen. Harry Reid's fundraising events in Los Angeles. According to DNC sources, Dean intentionally planned a West Coast swing around the dates Clinton and Reid had circled for their events. On Sunday, Dean was in Seattle, a quick shot down the Left Coast to Los Angeles, with plans to fly to San Francisco for events Monday. Before Seattle, Dean spent time with Democratic donors in Montana.

There is an increasing whiff of desperation permeating the finance side of the DNC, what with Dean apparently feeling like the nerd at a fraternity rush party scooted off to a room to hang with the foreign kid and the nosepicker, and big-time DNC fundraisers jumping ship like rats sensing something is amiss. On Monday it was announced that three high-profile fundraising officials were leaving Dean in the lurch: Bridget Siegel, finance director for the New York metropolitan area (including parts of Long Island, Westchester County, and Connecticut), Lori Kreloff, finance director for California, and Nancy Eiring, director of grassroots fundraising.

Eiring is perhaps the least surprising to jump, given Dean's personal interest in grassroots donors, but Eiring was credited with building up a first-class grassroots donor list over the past two years.

Siegel is expected to play a high profile role in both the Andrew Cuomo campaign for state attorney general, as well as some role in a potential run by Hillary Clinton for the presidency. Siegel was embarrassed after organizing a major donor event in Manhattan earlier this year for Dean. But the response rate for the event was less than 30 percent, and the event was moved from the Jacob Javits Center to a more intimate hotel ballroom.

"Siegel did a great job for Dean, and instead, his people complain about what was going on in New York," says a Democratic operative in New York. "None of the problems were her. It's all Dean, all the time."

Kreloff is not believed to have had anything to do with the snubs of Dean in the recent round of fundraisers in California, though again, the events Dean attended in Seattle and San Francisco were far smaller than the DNC had expected when they initially made the plans for them.


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"On Monday it was announced that three high-profile fundraising officials were leaving Dean in the lurch....Siegel was embarrassed after organizing a major donor event in Manhattan earlier this year for Dean. But the response rate for the event was less than 30 percent, and the event was moved from the Jacob Javits Center to a more intimate hotel ballroom."
1 posted on 06/08/2005 9:04:16 AM PDT by CHARLITE
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To: CHARLITE

I am coming to the conclusion that mr Dean is Rove plant! There is no other explanation. Or maybe he is positioning himself so far to the left that it would make Hillary a moderate by comparison. Given that the Rats are in a state of civil war between the Clinton camp and the Kennedy's (who despise Dean!) it is possible that Dean is a Clinton operative since MCauliffe left (and he was a Clinton boy as well!)


2 posted on 06/08/2005 9:08:32 AM PDT by bubman
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To: bubman

The toll-free number from the DNC Website for questions about donations is 877-336-7200.

I tried to call but got put on hold for five minutes. I was wondering if they accept donations from white Christians?


3 posted on 06/08/2005 9:10:34 AM PDT by grassboots.org (I'll Say It Again - The first freedom is life.)
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To: grassboots.org
I was wondering if they accept donations from white Christians?

Or hard-working Republicans?

4 posted on 06/08/2005 9:13:56 AM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: CHARLITE

The money is being moved to 527's. The MSM will carry the rest of the load. Howie is there to keep the whackos entertained. Fundraising is not really his job anymore.

The one flaw is that it is the role of the Chairman to recruit people to the party, not merely fundraise. In that respect they are in trouble. Dean cannot recruit normal people needed to win elections.


5 posted on 06/08/2005 9:14:28 AM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: CHARLITE

CFR has rfactionalized the Democrat coalition so badly they have no choice but to repeal it. They are trapped in their own social constructs that allow them no manueverability except to push further ahead in restricting 527 and PAC activities.


6 posted on 06/08/2005 9:29:20 AM PDT by JerseyHighlander
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To: CHARLITE

Dean represents the true spirit of today's Democratic party-- shrill,ignorant, mean, and radically left wing. Don't know how this guy managaged to get the job, but I'm glad he did. He tells people more about the real Democrat agenda than the party's faux moderates ever will.


7 posted on 06/08/2005 9:31:22 AM PDT by clearlight
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To: CHARLITE
I don't buy this notion that the party is "distancing itself from Dean." Dean's rhetoric is perfectly in line with the rest of the party; the only thing he's able to do that they are not, is to actually say what everyone else would like to say.

No. Dean says what every Democrat would like to say. And there's no way for the party to mobilize its base without a daily dose of moonbat rhetoric.

8 posted on 06/08/2005 9:32:08 AM PDT by Reactionary
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To: CHARLITE
Am surprised the head of the DNC needs an invite to a Demrat gala; but then. . .if 'impartiality' is required; then he never should have assumed he would/shoul be included - if he ever did, of course.

As for Dean, the 'shot-in -the-foot' scream continues. . .

9 posted on 06/08/2005 9:35:38 AM PDT by cricket
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
I was wondering if they accept donations from white Christians?

Or hard-working Republicans?

Or Republicans with Brain Waves...

10 posted on 06/08/2005 10:33:02 AM PDT by Jalapeno
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To: Jalapeno

or minorities that don't work in hotels.


11 posted on 06/08/2005 1:31:29 PM PDT by grassboots.org (I'll Say It Again - The first freedom is life.)
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To: CHARLITE
My guess is that the folks who intend to be around in 2008 are preparing for Hillary's push and those that aren't - hint, Howie, that's you, boy - are being treated as if they had a contagious disease. That would imply that the DNC leadership has looked at their chances of going majority in either house of Congress in 2006 and decided that it's a better bet to opt for the big enchilada in 2008.

Stick with me on this one - she has the executive for four years and most of the newspapers in the country screaming "obstructionism!" every time the Republican majority tries to stop her programs, a major push in 2010 for a Dem majority in both houses and another one in 2012 for her second term.

It may not sound like much of a plan for those convinced that she's unelectable, but I'm not sure about that at all - I think she's eminently electable. And another Clinton presidency with a majority of Dems in both houses would wreck this country for decades and possibly for good.

12 posted on 06/08/2005 1:46:57 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill; listenhillary; purpleland; JesseJane; eyespysomething; little jeremiah; Eastbound; ...
" another Clinton presidency with a majority of Dems in both houses would wreck this country for decades and possibly for good."

......which is why I'm personally devoting most of my time, now until election day of 2008, to do everything in my little, individual power to stop this major threat to America!

Do people realize how close George Soros has been to the Clintons......for years?!

Thanks, Bill. It's very important to keep featuring this topic..........and I'm very hopeful that the new book about the Killster will deal a mortal blow to her political ambitions.

Char :)

13 posted on 06/08/2005 4:16:02 PM PDT by CHARLITE (I propose a co-Clinton team as permanent reps to Pyonyang, w/out possibility of repatriation....)
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To: bubman
"I am coming to the conclusion that mr Dean is Rove plant!"

Heh. Sometimes I wonder if the whole Democrat Party is not a plant of the Republicans . . . sometimes.

14 posted on 06/08/2005 4:41:01 PM PDT by Eastbound (Jacked out since 3/31/05)
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