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Political equivalent of Chinese food. You won't remember you ate in a
couple of hours. Don't think it's a big deal at all. Probably helps that
people think we'll be out gunned.
On Jul 1, 2015 7:15 PM, "Tina Flournoy" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Shitty article. Isn’t Andy Spahn paid by Priorities?
>
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> Clinton’s missing $200 million man
>
> By Glenn Thrush and Anna Palmer
>
> 7/1/15 6:34 PM EDT
>
> A fundraising-obsessed Hillary Clinton netted an impressive $45 million
> during the first three months of her campaign — but her badly outgunned
> super PAC’s failure to keep pace is damping any celebration of the feat.
>
> Many top Clinton supporters say it’s now time for the other powerhouse
> Clinton — Bill — to employ his own magic touch to rescue Priorities USA
> Action and in the process, shove reluctant liberal donors into the big
> money game Republicans are easily winning.
>
> “I think President Clinton continues to be a great draw and an effective
> fundraiser and should be deployed in that capacity,” Andy Spahn, a
> California-based Democratic fundraiser close to the Clintons, told
> POLITICO, echoing the near-universal sentiment of a dozen fundraisers
> interviewed for this article. “Many of us have known him since the 1980s
> and worked with him since then, so he has a tremendous reservoir of
> friendship and goodwill across the country to draw from.”
>
> One problem with that: The former president, who raised tens of millions
> for his charitable foundation, has sat out the 2016 cash race so far and
> has told his friends and political allies he has no plans to help out the
> struggling group until the fall “at the earliest,” according to a senior
> Democrat close to Clinton.
>
> Priorities, which has recently been taken over by a former top official
> from Clinton’s 2008 race, is only slated to raise around $10 million to $12
> million, which will be dwarfed by the expected $100 million brought in by
> Right to Rise, Jeb Bush’s super PAC. That’s making Clinton insiders nervous
> about whether Priorities will have enough cash to fight back against
> Republican independent expenditure groups, who seem to collect campaign
> money from a spigot.
>
> “It’s a dilemma and a challenge,” said a veteran Democratic fundraiser
> with connections to Priorities. “Outside of Hillary herself, the
> president’s the biggest draw, and he’s the biggest draw with some of the
> bigger donors… [The Clintons] have made the decision that it’s too soon to
> get him involved. It’s their judgment that Priorities can wait. I’m not
> sure Priorities can wait, but that’s their judgment.”
>
> Democrats have lagged badly in the no-limits, Koch Brothers-ruled world of
> electoral fundraising created by the Supreme Court’s 2010 *Citizens
> United *decision. Unlike conservatives, most wealthy liberals support
> stringent campaign finance laws, and most Democrats with bank accounts fat
> enough to write seven-figure checks are loath to do so — at least until the
> tail end of an election cycle.
>
> The Clintons, less hostile to the notion of super PACs than the
> clean-hands team around President Barack Obama, were supposed to interrupt
> this self-defeating cycle. One top Democratic fundraiser was so convinced
> the 42nd president was the answer to the party’s squeamishness about big
> money that he recently labeled Clinton, in a burst of optimism, the “the
> $200 Million Man.”
>
> But Clinton has been nowhere on the money scene — either for Hillary
> Clinton’s official campaign or on the super PAC side.
>
> Clinton has focused almost entirely on collecting $2,700 checks for her
> primary face-off against … Bernie Sanders. And Bill Clinton has made it
> clear to friends and contributors that while he’s supportive and might work
> for the group down the road, for now he’s too busy with his foundation
> work. His wife’s team, meanwhile, has been all too happy to keep the Big
> Dog on a leash, at least at this early stage of the campaign.
>
> The upshot is that Priorities — rocked by a recent reshuffling that saw
> Clinton ally Guy Cecil replace a longtime Obama operative — trails its GOP
> counterparts badly in fundraising.
>
> Republican candidates and their billionaire backers certainly won’t adhere
> to the Clintons’ leisurely super PAC timetable, dissenters from the current
> strategy point out. Priorities’ newly revamped leadership needs the couple
> to move faster if they are to counter the flood of positive ads Right to
> Rise is expected to run in battleground states, where Bush is looking to
> lower his negative ratings among skeptical voters.
>
> Priorities, meanwhile, is still just getting organized. Board members are
> only now starting to casually pitch donors before the group puts together
> the kind of rigorous, analytical presentation that was key to its
> fundraising efforts in 2012. As a result, many potential Democratic donors
> are idling in neutral as the Cecil’s team gets its bearings, sitting on
> their cash while the Republicans rack up nine-figure numbers. That $10
> million to $12 million total would have been many times larger had the
> Clintons made funding the group a top priority, people familiar with
> Priorities’ fundraising efforts say.
>
> “Bill or Hillary makes a call to [Democratic donors like] Haim Saban or
> Susie Tompkins Buell and we get $30 million in a weekend,” said a
> Democratic operative close to Priorities.
>
> The disappointing start has already caused Priorities to lower its overall
> goals for the 2016 cycle. The group had hoped to raise $300 million just to
> keep pace, but insiders now expect the total haul to be in the $150 million
> to $200 million range. Even so, Cecil will have to lean hard on his close
> relationship with the Clintons to lure strong Hillary Clinton supporters
> who haven’t given to Priorities in the past — while selling the former
> first family on the importance of selling their friends on Priorities.
>
> That will be a challenge. GOP donors like the Kochs and Sheldon Adelson
> are far more willing to throw vast amounts at their favored candidates;
> Democratic donors, even the wealthiest ones, are more likely to fund an
> issue-advocacy campaign than to write a $1 million check to a group largely
> known for cutting negative ads.
>
> “I think fundraising for Democrats is always slower and we’re always going
> to be outspent … There is just no way any of us can keep up with the Koch
> brothers,” said Amber Mostyn, who, along with her husband, gave $3 million
> to Priorities in 2012 when it raised about $80 million for Obama’s
> reelection effort.
>
> The Mostyns have had a few conversations with Paul Begala, who raises cash
> for the group, and Priorities Chairwoman former Michigan Gov. Jennifer
> Granholm after David Brock, a close Clinton ally, resigned from the board
> following a critical New York Times story about the fundraising practices
> of other Brock-linked groups. Mostyn said they plan to give again, but they
> just don’t feel the urgency to give yet — in part because Clinton’s path to
> the nomination looks relatively unobstructed, Sanders notwithstanding.
>
> Spahn thinks Bill Clinton’s involvement could goad donors like the Mostyns
> to move more quickly. Under federal law, both Clintons are technically
> “agents” of the 2016 campaign, and therefore barred from soliciting super
> PAC contributions in excess of $5,000. But there are few constraints
> preventing either from headlining events for Priorities, touting the
> group’s effectiveness or romancing donors in person and over the phone.
>
> Clinton’s personal charisma could be especially crucial: As important as
> operatives like Begala and John Podesta are for wooing donors, the former
> president is expected to be the closer in small group settings, even if it
> he can’t overtly embrace that role for fear of violating the law. He also
> can draw from his foundation network — donors that are used to cutting
> multimillion-dollar checks.
>
> The one Priorities donor meeting in the Bay Area Hillary Clinton attended,
> held in early May, illustrated the awkwardness of the Clinton super PAC
> pitch: She opened her remarks with a hold-your-nose pose, acknowledging
> that she would prefer not to raise money for her own super PAC and saying,
> “It’s a sad reality, but we have to play by the rules.” Then she took
> questions, mostly about policy, and made no other direct pitch other than
> speaking kindly about the group in general terms, according to a person in
> attendance. Bush, by contrast, in April hosted a lavish, two-day retreat
> for more than 300 of his top benefactors at a posh Miami hotel, where he
> told them they were making history
> <http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/elections-2016/jeb-bush/article19724325.html>
> .
>
> Hillary Clinton has, however, moved aggressively to raise money for her
> own campaign. So far, she’s focused on raising relatively small amounts of
> hard money — $2,700 a pop, or $27,000 in a bundle — for the primary, but
> she will soon shift into a second phase of big-money donor bundling coupled
> with a ramped-up online fundraising operation modeled after Obama’s. That
> leaves Bill Clinton, along with daughter Chelsea and Podesta, as the most
> likely regular surrogates for Priorities.
>
> That’s why one of Cecil’s main objectives over the next few months is to
> sell the former president — and his friend Tina Flournoy, Bill Clinton’s
> chief of staff — on giving potential super PAC donors the kind of face-time
> he’s given to foundation and campaign donors. “Guy has to acclimate him to
> the idea that the super PAC is as important as anything else,” said a
> longtime Clinton associate.
>
> But Bill Clinton has his reasons for remaining on the bench, at least
> through the end of the year. His first priority, friends say, is raising
> enough cash to endow his foundation, and burnishing its reputation in the
> wake of stories revealing the tapping of foreign donors with pending State
> Department business and other questionable practices. Clinton’s recent
> schedule has been notably packed with foundation events: After barnstorming
> for Democrats in 2014, his only 2015 political fundraiser was a February
> appearance on behalf of Alvin Brown, who made a failed bid to be the mayor
> of Jacksonville, Florida.
>
> Hillary Clinton’s political team in Brooklyn has its own motives for
> keeping the former president on the sidelines for a while. In part, it’s to
> manage their least manageable surrogate; in part, it’s because securing
> multi-million dollar donations undercuts the campaign’s narrative of
> raising small amounts from “everyday American” donors instead of Wall
> Street zillionaires.
>
> This is a campaign that avidly pushes tales about staffers so cheap
> they’ll ride the Bolt Bus between Washington and Brooklyn. They are none to
> eager to read stories about Bill Clinton “wining and dining somebody for a
> million-dollar check … that will give Bernie Sanders a big thrill,”
> according to one aide — especially after repeated accounts of Bill
> Clinton’s aggressive fundraising on behalf of his foundation.
>
> But to some extent, Priorities’ struggles simply reflect the Democratic
> Party’s chronic unease in the unlimited-money environment. Some big Clinton
> donors are reluctant to give on ideological grounds because they abhor
> super PACs and the massive amounts of money they inject into the political
> system. And heavyweights like George Soros, Haim Saban, Fred Eyechaner and
> James Simons haven’t stepped forward to write the kind of $5 million-plus
> contributions that would make an immediate difference.
>
> It might take a crisis to wake donors — and perhaps the Clintons — out of
> their super PAC stupor. Priorities struggled to raise money for Obama in
> 2012 until he whiffed the first debate against Mitt Romney. Money poured in
> once Democratic donors believed his reelection was no longer inevitable,
> according to multiple sources close to the Priorities.
>
> Several donors interviewed by POLITICO suggested that Cecil and the new
> regime are hoping Priorities’ relatively small haul, which will be
> officially reported later this month, will serve as a wake-up call;
> Democratic donors will be stunned to see how much cash Right to Rise raised
> by comparison and race to open their wallets. Potential contributors
> contacted by Priorities staff and board members in recent days told
> POLITICO they felt little pressure to write checks before the filing
> deadline, perhaps to underscore the organization’s cash crisis.
>
> “I think on some level we may suffer from the unintended consequences of
> Hillary being such a strong candidate,” Mostyn said.
>
> *To view online*:
> https://www.politicopro.com/go/?id=49473
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