Clinton raises $10 million
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign will have cash to compete, after all.
Her campaign announced today it has received $10 million from 100,000 Internet donors since Super Tuesday.
Clinton disclosed Wednesday she loaned the campaign $5 million of her own money in January. Her campaign’s $13.5 million in January donations were dwarfed by the more than $32 million received by Sen. Barack Obama.
After Super Tuesday, the Clinton campaign set a goal of raising $3 million online in three days.
According to Peter Daou, Internet director for the Clinton campaign, “Emails and letters poured in from supporters telling Sen. Clinton that they hadn’t realized that she needed their financial support. The emails ranged from a conservative veteran who wrote to say that he, his wife and daughters all contributed to the campaign, to a couple who decided to forego their Valentine’s dinner to send a donation.’’
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Gotta love the way these candidates slyly insinuate that their donations come from the “little people” and not the big vested interests and the lobbies who are all looking for favor and influence. And as it has been, it always will be. At least they hope so. And this is the “hope” that they ingenuously rap about.
My guess is that Billary is “toast”. How can she even attempt to distance herself from the past; from old, inside-the-beltway politics, when her latest move in the Dem chessgame is to replace her campaign manager with her old White House Chief of Staff? Out with NEW and in with the OLD! Smart thinking Billary… no one will guess what you are up to. What’s next? Will she resurrect Vince Foster to give her legal advice? Will she ask sneaky Sandy Berger for foreign policy advice?
Oh wait, she already has. Berger, who admitted to stealing sensitive documents, and then lied about it to the Feds, is on her campaign staff (http://www.ethicsscoreboard.com/list/berger2.html).
Billary, here’s an idea: look for new campaign staff in Attica – they will be more on the up and up than what you already have.