AFL-CIO Pulling Funds From Obama Campaign

U.S. News & World Report ^ | Wednesday, June 13, 2012 | Elizabeth Flock

[kristinn]

The AFL-CIO has told Washington Whispers it will redeploy funds away from political candidates smack dab in the middle of election season, the latest sign that the largest federation of unions in the country could be becoming increasingly disillusioned with President Obama.

The federation says the shift has been in the works for months, and had nothing to do with the president's failure to show in Wisconsin last week, where labor unions led a failed recall election of Governor Scott Walker.

"We wanted to start investing our funds in our own infrastructure and advocacy," AFL-CIO spokesman Josh Goldstein told Whispers. "There will be less contributions to candidates," including President Obama.

While there were "a lot of different opinions" about whether Obama should have gone to Wisconsin, according to Goldstein, "this is not a slight at the president."

[kidd]

The DNC views things like “rules” and “votes” and “procedure” to be charming and old-fashioned.

If they feel threatened, the DNC resorts to “courts” and “birth-certificates” or even “Fort Marcy Park”

Ask Senator Lautenberg.

It wouldn’t be difficult, for those without scruples, to get Hillary Clinton on the ballot

[adorno]

I’m wondering if this was a chesspiece type move to get funds available to support/persuade hillary to run.

Bringing Hillary in to "rescue" the party and ticket, will smack of complete desperation, and desperation is not a winner in most battles.

At best, Hillary will swap places with Biden, but, it will still seem as a desperate move, and not really change anything, since, Obama is not one to share power at the top.

[ilgipper]

I am not sure, but they’ve done it before in state races. Really nothing is official until the convention. I suppose if he were pressured to drop out there would have to be someone run, and I am sure the Dems would put on a fun charade to show a huge momentum building to have Hillary run.

Frankly, I am not sure the people would care...they have soundly rejected the Democrats at all levels, and she’s not all that compelling to change that trajectory. Seeing Carville, Bill, and other Clintonites all suddenly becoming anti-Barrack is certainly raising an eyebrow, though.

[Leto]

Well the original plan was 2008 but that went out the window. Bill hasn’t forgotten the race card being played on him and won’t forgive. So we see L Davis, Rendell, H Ford Carvile and Bill killing Obama.

2016 is the only game in town for HC.