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$OROS TO BUILD HILL A 'BASE' (Ickes on-board---rattling Dean's cage)
NY POST ^
| March 9, 2006
| IAN BISHOP Post Correspondent
Posted on 03/09/2006 3:01:35 AM PST by Liz
HAROLD ICKES M for voter database.
One of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's top political advisers is taking in big bucks from liberal moneyman George Soros to create a massive Democratic voter database.........Harold Ickes, a former White House deputy chief-of-staff to Bill Clinton and a campaign aide to Hillary, is collecting more than $10 million in the bid to outflank the GOP's high-tech research, The Washington Post revealed yesterday.
His secretive effort is ruffling feathers at Howard Dean's DNC, the outfit officially tasked with building detailed voter lists.
Ickes, who's partnering with Democratic operative and former DNC research guru Laura Quinn, is mounting the computer research bid in a not-so-subtle no-confidence vote in Dean's record-keeping.
Ickes lost out to Dean last year in a bid to be the Dems' party boss. "It's unclear what the DNC is doing"....
Clinton, who already inherited hubby Bill's massive national fund-raising network, could get first dibs on new, first-rate voter records built to rival the GOP research network grown on Karl Rove's watch.
Insiders say Clinton has long fretted that the party's liberal leaders lacked the discipline to build up the party infrastructure as Republicans have done.
The GOPers have streaked past the Democrats in building such a comprehensive voter database they can tailor campaign mail to a single voter's pet issue, everything from abortion to gun owners' rights. Ickes' effort would allow Clinton to engage individual voters in much the same way.
Soros - who spent tens of millions of dollars trying to defeat President Bush in 2004 - is a key fund-raiser in this latest Dem effort, for which Ickes has already raised $7.5 million.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chairmandean; dnc; filegate; fundingtheleft; fundraising; hillary2008; ickes; soros
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posted on
03/09/2006 3:01:39 AM PST
by
Liz
To: Liz
I dare you to read this without giggling.
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posted on
03/09/2006 3:06:26 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Liz
Everyone should register democrat to fill the database with goop. Even names in graveyards! (oops, they're already in there)
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posted on
03/09/2006 3:23:42 AM PST
by
leadhead
(It’s a duty and a responsibility to defeat them. But it's also a pleasure)
To: Liz
These cockroaches are trying to crawl back into the White House. Clearly, they have $$$ for campaign funds. Hildebeast will need to keep the shrillness down in order to win. I wonder if she can do that. Al Gore and Howard Dean couldn't do that. Of course, as a woman, any man running against her will have to be careful to not pull a Rick Lazio (trying to hand her stuff during a debate).
To: Mamzelle
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posted on
03/09/2006 3:52:55 AM PST
by
Liz
(Liberty consists in having the power to do that which is permitted by the law. Cicero)
To: Izzy Dunne
Yeah (giggle)..... and isn't that pic of Ickes priceless?
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posted on
03/09/2006 3:54:01 AM PST
by
Liz
(Liberty consists in having the power to do that which is permitted by the law. Cicero)
To: leadhead
LOL.......Night of the Living Dead alert.
"Where do I go to vote for Hillary?"
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posted on
03/09/2006 3:57:22 AM PST
by
Liz
(Liberty consists in having the power to do that which is permitted by the law. Cicero)
To: Liz
The real money will go to defeating the other Democratic nominations for 2008. That is always the first step in taking the nomination of your party.
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posted on
03/09/2006 3:57:34 AM PST
by
SR 50
(Larry)
To: Liz
This image made available by the Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR) shows Senator Hillary Clinton, center, flanked by, from left: ILIR President Grant Lally, ILIR Vice Chairman Ciaran Staunton, ILIR Chairman Niall O'Dowd and Rep. Joe Crowley, D-NY, during a rally in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, March 8, 2006. Thousands rallied Wednesday in support of the McCain Kennedy Immigration Bill (S1033), which, among other issues, provides legal status for undocumented people already in the U.S. (AP Photo/Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, Sean McPhail)
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posted on
03/09/2006 4:02:45 AM PST
by
maggief
(and the dessert cart rolls on ...)
To: Liz
Hillary, the questionable American, is surrounding herself with others of the same bent. George Soros
hates America and Harold Ickes has no interest in what's best for America and Americans, his interests have, like his father (who I think was fired by Truman) been only in creating wealth for himself as he has for Hillary. the past, ...
"Rhetorically she will invoke the halcyon days of the 1990s. The fact is she knows that people are concerned very much on the future and that she very much has to address that. Harold Ickes. In short, Soros and Ickes are going to re-run the rapist in a pant suit.
Hillary has several law suits against her pending; should she be running at all?
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posted on
03/09/2006 4:22:41 AM PST
by
yoe
("If the enemy is in range, so are you.")
To: GeorgefromGeorgia
This will get ugly before it is over. Dean will not go quietly into the night. He has enough support from the crazy a$$ wing of the Democrat Party to initiate a Clinton document dump, including the Barrett Report. Kerry and Gore have a vested interest in as much mess as possible being unleashed on Hill, but can't be seen as being behind it. Neither will unseat Hillary as a candidate unless they can bring out enough mess to not just sink her but as show her as being able to drag the Democrat Party into the deep end of the pool with her.
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posted on
03/09/2006 4:27:40 AM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Self appointed RNC Press Secretary for Smarmy Sound Bites.)
To: Liz
Yea, that campaign finance reform really worked well.
To: Larry Lucido
Yea, that campaign finance reform really worked well. Yeah, right.(rolls eyes)
Hillary is being bought and paid for by a foreigner, and no one has a problem with it.
Thanks so much, Senator McCain.
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posted on
03/09/2006 4:46:52 AM PST
by
airborne
To: Liz
SOROS AND A FEW OTHER WEALTHY SOCIALIST IS THE DEMOCRAT BASE. THE MAJOR CONSTITUENCY BLOC, BLACKS, DO NOT GIVE, THEY ONLY TAKE. RANK AND FILE DEMOCRATS STOPPED GIVING THE DEMO/SOCIALIST PARTY MONEY YEARS AGO.
THE ONLY LARGE SOURCE OF FUNDS OTHER THAN A FEW FAT CATS IS MONEY RECEIVED FROM FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS SUCH AS COMMUNIST CHINA AND BILLIONAIRE INIANOSENS. THE NEW MONEY SOURCE IS ARAB OIL MONEY.
ARABS ARE LIKE LARGE CORPORATIONS, THEY GIVE MONEY TO BOTH SIDES.
THERE OUGHTTA' BE A LAW!
To: Liz
Hillary! will have the Database
Hillary! will have all the money
Hillary! will have all the 527s
Hillary! will have all the Superdelegates
If the Donks think anybody besides Hillary! will be their next nominee, they are dreaming. They have no choice. The decision has already been made. They might as well just lie back and enjoy it.
To: Liz
The GOPers have streaked past the Democrats in building such a comprehensive voter database they can tailor campaign mail to a single voter's pet issue, everything from abortion to gun owners' rights. Ickes' effort would allow Clinton to engage individual voters in much the same way. How complicated is it to send a flyer saying "Bush SUX!!!" to every registered Democrat. Do they have any other issues?
Besides abortion, that is. I guess they may have to filter out the pro-abortion drum-beat for some registered Democrats who are fooling themselves about what their party stands for.
To: Liz
Howard Dean was never the Clinton's man. The Clinton mafia can't seem to control Dean so the Clinton syndicate are setting up business in their own territory. Actually, I think it's a bit scary. I think the Clinton's will succeed in creating a very sophisticated database. That list will include enemies, a hit list, and all sorts of information. These are the same group of people who had no qualms about hiring the Pellicano private investigator guy. Remember Kathleen Willey's cat that was killed as a warning to her? Remember the widespread use of the IRS to destroy people and organizations?
The beast moves forward.
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posted on
03/09/2006 5:12:36 AM PST
by
Obadiah
To: Obadiah
Harold Ickes will do ANYTHING to get Hillary elected.
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posted on
03/09/2006 5:23:54 AM PST
by
ardara
To: Liz
How did $oros get so rich? He keeps betting on LOOOOOOOOsers!
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posted on
03/09/2006 6:36:31 AM PST
by
Don Corleone
(Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
To: Don Corleone
Would you believe tax fraud?
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posted on
03/09/2006 6:51:55 AM PST
by
Liz
(Liberty consists in having the power to do that which is permitted by the law. Cicero)
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