Login HereAccording to Howard Wolfson:
Late last month Senator Clinton loaned her campaign $5 million.The loan illustrates Sen. Clinton’s commitment to this effort and to ensuring that our campaign has the resources it needs to compete and win across this nation. We have had one of our best fundraising efforts ever on the web today and our Super Tuesday victories will only help in bringing more support for her candidacy.
On the conference call this morning, Wolfson said he "didn't know."
Nice to see that channels of communication within the campaign improved over the course of the morning.
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Jane!
Hiya Jane!
Wow Jane. Is this personal funds rather than Senate Campaign funds?
Her and Mitt both doing their part for the economy,
how patriotic.
/snark
Dueling Posts?
I get the feeling this one is going to get bumped.
This might help explain why HRC agreed to debate on Fixed Noise.
Hi Jane (very very young pups and others): :-) Thanks for putting this up Jane, what I love about you in addition to your intelligence and energy is your fairness to the issues.
That said, this really is pretty amazing.
how?
not following the connection
I’ve loaned myself $5 million before
it’s no big deal
as soon as that check from Nigeria clears the bank, they’re gonnaletme outof this cell
She needs free advertising (i.e. no money to buy TV time) a debate is basically free publicity.
Things for HRC are starting to fall apart.
Jeebus, I wish my life had so fallen apart I could loan myself 5 million…
Hillary is on MSNBC right now explaining she is “in it to win it.” That’s why she is laying 5mil. down on the betting table. Luck be the Lady tonight!
No I just put this one up so people didn’t jump in the Laesh post to talk about it.
I’ll state my obvious, may not be yours
Campaigns should be free-all of it, tv, print, radio, travel.
If we want candidates who represent people, this is how it should roll.
Jane great stuff on the campaign - to be fair to Howard, he did say he’d go an check and get back to people on it. Didn’t sound like any kind of atempt at stonewalling or anything.
This is apparently in addition to the $13.5 million that she raised in January.
In fairness, I think the long campaign cycle this time puts inordinate amounts of stress on finances through Super Tuesday. Look how many people bowed out after six or less primaries. That’s also unprecedented and I’m not sure it’s healthy for the process to allow so few states winnow so many so fast.
That a fundraising machine like the Clintons have had to resort to a loan to get through Super Tuesday should send a warning message to everyone that the campaign system is broken and unaffordable to too many. That’s not just about Obama’s appeal; it’s way bigger than that.
Jane - I would like to email you something. Could you put your address here (it is probably on the site, but I missed it!).
IF anyone is still down here - we have important stuff to do upstairs - in a Live Chat with John D Laesch… from IL-14 (hastert’s old seat)
Speaking of campaign money, looseheadprop dropped this bombshell in EPU land downtstairs…
RNCC financial improprieties stretching back several years.
An example of keeping us on a short laesh apparently.
Beat me to it.
How’s that Cali Smoking looking now?
keeping us on a short laesh
Don’t start or we’ll all be forced to flea.
Bass Great - Lesh Filling.
Bill Clinton can now go out and make $1 million speeches to Saudis, Emirates, the Chinese, etc… Then turn around and dump it into her campaign. Convenient way around campaign finance laws. Convenient and disgusting. I can’t believe Jane falls for these people. The ends should never justify the means. Never. When will people wake-up and understand this. The way we do things matters most.
Scratch that then.
Free media.
I remember how Kerry loaned himself 9 mil right as they were writing his political obituary. He then went on to win the Dem Primary before he died by Swift Boat. It’s much too early to kill of the Clinton Campaign in my view. I swear they have nine lives.
OT for SanderO this BBC report is FYI, from the other day. Salud
Will there be a great hue and cry before we’re all forced to flee? :)
…except for those of us who are itching for more puns.
Heck Hillary, just send ‘ol Bill over to the Middle East.
Will there be a great hue and cry before we’re all forced to flee?
I dunno. Hugh might be great enough, but I’m not into the crying game. I’m okay with wine at the door, though.
Just to let you know I didn’t take a powder. I took a short paws to read something else.
Obama!
Money should not be the determining factor in elections period, and until that is realized we have all this bullshit, and candidates as whores to those who fund them on either side, which in reality is only one side called big business as usual-money, guns and bullets-wz.
Written by a 66 year old who still believes that humanity should be the bottom line-sorry I can’t be funny, or, maybe I am to some, my rant for the day and now I’m done.
Sometimes I cringe before I hit submit, this is one of those times.
Obama is shattering all records for individual donors for a primary season. I give him credit for that.
She’s going to make it up now that she’s won so many big states. She’s viable in a way that she wasn’t before. More viable than Obama at this point.
Plus, in NJ, it was well known that Obama spent a LOT of money. He burned through a lot of the cash he made. And he pulled out the stops in South Carolina and MA. So, big bucks, little impact. He will be hurting soon as well.
For all the budget woes, she seems to be allocating it well because she won the biggies.
In the cost benefit analysis, I’d say Clinton is winning.
It is always a pleasure to observe the dogged pursuit of pun-isment suitable to the pup’orted purr-poise of those who lake it.
From the TPM link:
Obama raised $32 million during this same timeframe. Obama won several more states yesterday, some Dems usually ignore and by overwhelming numbers, and more delegates. Who is more “electable?”
Wow. That gets an “AAA” rating from the Allied Alliance for Alliteration Advancement!
Comes from my interminable time spent doing research in the Department of Redundancy Department. Thank you.
I think she mismanaged her money. I remember reading about Iowa and the Clinton campaign buying of sandwiches for the caucauses (illegal) at the local supermarket, whereas the Obama campaign brought in home made cookies. Remember what has been said about the DCC and all the costs of their advertising (huge overheads), well them chickens came back to roost on Hillary.
Well, I can’t lick that.
Rant on, but cringeless, for such truth shall set us free. My regartds and appreciation for speaking to one of those seemingly, for the moment, forgotten ‘issues’.
Humanities Hobbsien hams are alliteration enough.
Thanks for making me feel a part of
It was rumored at the time that Hillary’s campaign rented as many vans as they could, and never picked them up, just so other campaigns couldn’t get people out to vote. This is a known tactic, so it wouldn’t surprise me if they did this. Wasn’t money well spent if true.
Reminds me, between Obama and Clinton, Hillary is the only one to finish in 3rd place so far. Again, who’s more “electable?”
As may be, but at least, we’ve gotten away from the scratching ‘post’.
You guys cut it out before I become pet-ulant.
I suspect some are becoming fur-ious, as well.
Yup. Also speaks to morals, ethics, and responsibility
Seems to me that ‘elect-ability’ ought to be considered worthy os discussion as an ‘issue’. More so, as we head towards November. But, that might be considered ‘unfair’ by some.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to tick you off.
We should have known that there wood bee those who wood collar us out, about our lack of restraint. We must needs harness our enthusiasm and curb our excess.
I’m afraid this has become one of those occasions when Laesch is more.
I think attrition was kind of the point of this long, drawn out campaign.
I personally am sick to death of it.
An interesting point: McCain voted against public financing of elections back in 1990 in the wake of the S&L fiasco, to which he was connected as one of the Keating Five.
Anyone looking at the discourse occurring in the background or am I sipping some type of conspiracy kool-aid (if so, i hope it’s red kool-aid…yes red kool-aid is a flavor lol)
When I see Hillary,I see the established political machine and the big donors tied to it. With Obama, I see the grassroots (with it’s more progressive agenda) at work with his donations coming mostly from people donating less than $100. The political machine tries to discount the netroots by minimizing them or painting them as the ‘fringe’. Does this not seem more a battle between the grassroots and the political machine over where the party is headed?
Okay, I’ll go sit down and sip on my red kool-aid.
Obama is “grassroots?” When he’s aligned with the Kennedy dynasty, Oprah, and Maria Schwarzenegger? You think that means he’s NOT part of a Kennedy political machine?
Obama’s largest contributor is Goldman Sachs. It’s why he voted AGAINST a cap on interest rates charged on credit cards for lower-income clients in predatory lending schemes.
Goldman Sachs, I’m sure, was very grateful for that vote.
By the way, everybody, Clinton raised $4 million in 24 hours, and still counting even more donations. She also registered 35,000 new voters!
Gallup daily tracking shows a sharp Clinton uptick after Super Tuesday:
Clinton 52%
Obama 39%
Go Hillary!!!
Who is more electable?
Well let’s look at FACTS instead of emotion.
Here’s Florida’s results:
Clinton 856,944
Obama 568,930
In the major Democratic base states, who won?
California, Michigan, New Hampshire, Florida, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts——all Clinton.
And I hear the Obama campaign is conceding that they won’t win in Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
It seems quite CLEAR who is more electable, doesn’t it?