Hillary Raises Big Bucks in Texas Bush Country

American Prospect ^ | March 30, 2006 | Greg Sargent

[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

[in hoc signo vinces]

Agreed, plenty of fruits and nuts in that town.

[freelancer]

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.

Streisand also raised money for McGovern. Didn't help him much, did it?

[AmericaUnited]

I smell BIG TIME PHONY MANUFACTURED story smell. It reminds me of those stories that start off "I've voted for every Replication candidate for the last 487 years but this election I'm voting for the hard left RAT..."

[AmusedBystander]

Any likable, well spoken, bright GOP candidate will crush her on the issues alone...never mind her scandal plagued life.

I hope you are right, but I would not underestimate her. Widow Carnahan comes to mind. Bill could suffer a "heart attack" as an October surprise and Hill skates with sympathy vote.

[Txsleuth]

LOL...that baseball team's stadium was paid for partly by ME...in my sales tax..

The first time I ever saw George Bush was in his box at the ballpark, LONG before he was Governor of Texas..

His library will probably be only a few miles from Kennedy's assasination point.

[in hoc signo vinces]

Seriously, even Mitt Romney would kill her in a national election.

Bill, again, has the benefit of media hype as to his stature in the US...he's not as "liked" as the media would have the masses beleive. So, I doubt cigar boy keeling over would generate the type of sympathy that leads to the voting booth.

She's unelectable on a national stage...and the dems are delusional if they think she is. It's pretty clear she's a nutter..so, she'll try and run...but, those of us who know full well the DOOM she'd bring upon this nation if she ever holds its highest office personally...will take action to make sure that never happens (PERIOD).

[republican4ever]

I pray you are right... or else I want to puke!

[republican4ever]

I pray you are right... or else I want to puke!

[Toespi]

Hillary is hunting?

[TalBlack]

"many who showed up were Republican women, lots of them first-time donors."

Oh, really? Funny that among womwn in Liberal NY Hil doesn't poll they way she should. Many Liberal women don't like her, but she's pulling in Republican woman? Right.

This is a planted article IMHO. It is long on what the Dem's want us to believe but short on anythig like an actual backing fact.

[wildbill]

Right out of Bubba's handbook. While he was President he used to sneak off at night to secret fundraisers around the country that were off limits to the press. Don't know how they were paid for when he used Presidential jets.
Then he'd fly back to Washington overnight.


if the MSM press knew, they didn't raise an eyebrow or report it.

There were a couple of articles in the local Houston Chronicle about them being very hush hush. They didn't want anyone to know who was there or who contributed.

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[pepperdog]

"the Austin event"

They are just bent on keeping Austin weird!

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'08 Bumper Sticker

"ANYBODY except a RINO or hitlery!"

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Sessions and Tancredo '08

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http://tancredo.house.gov/

Monday, March 27, 2006
http://sessions.senate.gov/pressapp/record.cfm?id=253171&&

“The American people are counting on us to secure our borders and restore the rule of law to our immigration system. The Senate Judiciary Committee today let the American people down by passing out a blanket amnesty bill. We've been down this path several times before, and it proved a failure.
“There was a real opportunity to take the steps necessary to fix our failed immigration enforcement system and while progress was made, we did not get there. The proper approach is to first fix the enforcement system and then to undertake a national discussion about immigration, considering how to justly handle those here illegally and what rules should govern future immigration levels. We also have not effectively dealt with the national security issues.

“I voted against the committee passed legislation because it rewards illegal behavior, will be considered amnesty by the people and will not restore respect for law. Fortunately, the House of Representatives has passed a solid bill, and there will be an opportunity to improve the Senate version in the days to come.”

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"In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

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Real Conservatives FINALLY
have a winning ticket in '08

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Time for the real conservatives on FR,
be it Republicans, Independents or Democrats
(like Zell Miller and John O'Neill) to band together
and oust the looney left and RINO's

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The "Politically Correct RINO's" on FR are the same group
who "swore"
klintoon, hitlery, hanoi kerry, sanbdi ber(bur)glar, al bore, jane beno,
would be prosecuted for
pardongate, chinagate, the bribes in upstate NY in the 2000 NY Senate race, waco, etc, etc,
"when" the "time was right".

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[Conservative Firster]

From: Ace of Spades HQ

Red State Texas Goes Ga-Ga For Hillary!

So reports the American Prospect's blog Tapped.

Senatrix Hillary!, we are told, is holding fund-raisers in the reddest of red-state Bush county -- in Texas, of all places.

Well, the piece does get one thing right-- she was, in fact, in the state of Texas.

The writer apparently is unaware of, or chose to deliberately misrepresent his knowlege of, the fact that there are blue enclaves in every red state. We tend to refer to these, collequially, as "cities" or "wealthy, liberal-leaning suburbs."

So Hillary! is wowing them in counties in Texas that went 49% or even 56% for John Kerry in 2004.

Similarly, NYT musical critic/"politcal pundit" Frank Rich gushed that Brokeback Mountain would sweep the heartland, because it was doing so well in the super-red-state mid-America heartland town of Plano, Texas. Kausfiles checked into this (scan wayyyy down) and found that Plano wasn't quite as red as Frank Rich had suggested:

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: Remember Plano, Texas, the Mid-American city where Brokeback Mountain's ticket sales so impressed Frank Rich and others with the film's hard-core red-state appeal? When Wal-Mart decided to open a new experimental "upscale" store, featuring a sushi bar, an espresso bar, $500 bottles of wine--but no guns--guess where they decided to do it? ... Reports A.P.: "[I]f plasma TVs, microbrewery beer and fancy balsamic vinegar sell in Plano, those items could be added to stores in other affluent communities." ... Plano is in fact an affluent Dallas suburb. ...

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I'm annoyed at the dishonesty, of course. But I'm more peeved at the arrogance-- the idea that they can get away with peddling such transparent lies. How stupid do they think we are?

Very, very stupid, apparently.

Coming: Heartland, mid-west farm-country Illinois* rejects tough measures to limit illegal immigration, showing that America doesn't want such measures!

* Cook County, Illinois, to be exact. I think it's better known by another name, but I can't think of it off the top of my head.

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