Posted on 03/30/2006 1:56:33 PM PST by Peach
HILLARY RAISES BIG BUCKS IN TEXAS BUSH COUNTRY. Senator Clinton did a great deal of fundraising around the country in March, and her private fundraising schedule -- which was passed along by a source -- shows that she raked in big bucks in that most impenetrable of red-state strongholds: Texas. The schedule lists a dozen events in four states, in the space of just two months, March and April. This is very significant, because all the activity shows just how determined Hillary's advisers are to stockpile an enormous campaign warchest at a time when she is facing only token opposition for reelection in 2006 -- something which of course will only fuel speculation that her fundraising right now is also about scaring off potential Dem challengers in 2008.
On March 21, the schedule shows, Hillary quietly slipped off to Texas for an unpublicized swing through that state, where the junior senator from the ultimate blue state raked in as much as $4,200-per-person in some of the most red-hued of venues. For instance, one event was a breakfast at, of all places, the Dallas Petroleum Club, a mahogany-festooned enclave whose president was once Ray Hunt, a top Bush fundraiser and oilman. She also had a fundraising event at a barbeque in San Antonio and an event crowded with high-tech entrepreneurs in Austin (the state capitol where Bush presided as Texas governor).
Here's something interesting. A source familiar with the Austin event tells me that at least one attendee was surprised by the fact that many who showed up were Republican women, lots of them first-time donors. I mention this not to argue that Hillary has crossover appeal, but to show how aggressively her fundraisers are working to tap diverse constituencies around the country. Her schedule also shows events in Washington, DC, Rhode Island, and Missouri -- an amount of national activity that, for someone who's so far ahead in polls and money for reelection, is striking.
--Greg Sargent
Shouldn't she be working?
Hill's the one to beat. It will be very difficult to stop her since there are no good GOP candidates in the bull pen itching to run against her.
I really like Senator Cornyn, but don't know if he has the interest in running. But he's got it all, imo.
I wasn't paying full attention so I can't claim this is perfectly accurate:
But I heard on Fox news yesterday that Barbra Streisand alone has promised to personally raise a minimum of ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS for Hillary's campaign, by going back on the concert tour.
And it being set up that everyone purchasing a ticket is actually making a personal donation to the hillary campaign, therby circumventing campaign donation limits.
And apparently Hillary hates Streisand personally because Bill was boffing Streisand in the White House while Hillary was elsewhere.
I'm just real concerned since there aren't a slug of GOP candidates falling all over themselves to get noticed. If ever there was a time for a candidate to salivate it's now since there will be no VP to run (unless Cheney has plans that I'm unaware of).
The website posting this is a liberal one. Article is designed to look like they have a foothold here - WHICH THEY DO NOT.
I remember when Bob Dole ran against Clinton. I'm convinced the Republicans knew that no one could beat Clinton and so they let someone whose "turn" it was, so to speak, run for the presidency.
And I'm afraid the GOP, which has shown itself to be absolutely gutless and spineless, will not run any candidates really hard against her.
Glad to know that information!
The comments on the article are pretty funny..
I think your half right
They're paying her to leave?
Surely you jest. Hillary is absolutely unelectable...she's a pipe dream by the media driven frenzied lefties.
she would draw few voters...and there's been plenty of analysis done to as proof of that...just google it...or search this site for references to Hillary's inability to win a national election. She's too scandal ridden, to much a marxist, and to unsympathetic a person to every win the Presidency.
Any likable, well spoken, bright GOP candidate will crush her on the issues alone...never mind her scandal plagued life.
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Little link at the bottom of that post takes you here:
http://www.prospect.org/cgi-bin/movabletype/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=9646
If anyone has access to the donors and amounts H got in Texas, I'd love to see it. Pretty soon, I believe, we'll start to see donations and donors on the net the day after a fundraiser.
Those are pretty funny; I'll have to finish reading later.
I worry about how many usually staunch conservative women will vote for Hillary just because she is a woman.
Case in point:
My EX-wife was a very good conservative, voted Republican straight ticket most times, espoused strong conservative values at every opportunity.
Yet she voted for Janet Napolitano for Governor in Arizona because she thought it was important for a woman to get into high office....
And get this: She knew Napolitano personally (as a patient) and absolutely despised her as an arrogant, nasty, rude b...uh. witch.
So, that makes me wonder how many other women with good political instincts will vote based on gender rather than what they know is sane.
It's enough to make me despair that women ever got the vote. I hear stories like this fairly frequently. And I'm the opposite (so hopefully there are more women like me to balance the soccer mom types out) -- I'm less likely to want a woman in the WH just because she's a woman.
Nope. Of all the Republican women in Austin, two were at home with me and the third assures me she was in Lockhart, picking up her new dog.
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