Mook spooked: Clinton fundraising falling short, 'should be crushing' it
His full note:
I know how invested you are in this campaign, so I wanted to make sure you heard from me about our progress for the month.
At a time when we should be crushing the other side in fundraising — and building the strongest voter outreach operation we can — our fundraising has actually been falling just a little bit short of our projections, day-by-day.
So here I am in your inbox — asking for you to stand with us right now. Will you chip in? When you do, we'll send you a free Team Hillary sticker.
On a different kind of campaign, in another election, I might not need to send this email. But everything we've built up to this point has come with the support of 2 million people like you. You're literally the source of most of the money this campaign raises.
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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/mook-spooked-clinton-fundraising-falli...
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What's up? Her little money diversion scheme (Hillary Victory Fund scam) wasn't enough?
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Clinton fundraising leaves little for state parties
But less than 1 percent of the $61 million raised by that effort has stayed in the state parties’ coffers, according to a POLITICO analysis of the latest Federal Election Commission filings.
The venture, the Hillary Victory Fund, is a so-called joint fundraising committee comprised of Clinton’s presidential campaign, the Democratic National Committee and 32 state party committees. The setup allows Clinton to solicit checks of $350,000 or more from her super-rich supporters at extravagant fundraisers including a dinner at George Clooney’s house and a concert at Radio City Music Hall featuring Katy Perry and Elton John.
The victory fund has transferred $3.8 million to the state parties, but almost all of that cash ($3.3 million, or 88 percent) was quickly transferred to the DNC, usually within a day or two, by the Clinton staffer who controls the committee, POLITICO’s analysis of the FEC records found.
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By contrast, the victory fund has transferred $15.4 million to Clinton’s campaign and $5.7 million to the DNC, which will work closely with Clinton’s campaign if and when she becomes the party’s nominee. And most of the $23.3 million spent directly by the victory fund has gone toward expenses that appear to have directly benefited Clinton’s campaign, including $2.8 million for “salary and overhead” and $8.6 million for web advertising that mostly looks indistinguishable from Clinton campaign ads and that has helped Clinton build a network of small donors who will be critical in a general election expected to cost each side well in excess of $1 billion.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/clinton-fundraising-leaves-little-...
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I HATE ABBA but this somehow seems appropriate.
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Sometimes I think Clinton is singing this UNIRONICALLY.
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Sorry, for some reason this just came to mind... Been talking to Australian friends recently online, and their attitude has started to rub off...
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Look on the bright side.
Her lack of funds can be directly contributed to us.
I was recently at a county fair and of course the DNC booth was looking for donations.
I gave them a nickel and asked a receipt. If I had been a common mortal, I would have burst into flames from the looks I got. I was informed (no shit) that my donation was not tax deductible.
I informed them that I was not worried about the deduction. I just wanted to make sure my donation actually went where it was supposed to go.
Now I'm sure that I have had damnation put upon me.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Hope you handed them a dollar and
asked for 95 cents in change. = )
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
Good thought.
So does giving them a plug nickel.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
The Lie:
In order to be perceived as the party of the people, they need actual donations from real people. What they are falling short of is interest from real people. They have plenty of money from special interests.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
Bingo!
They're looking for wider buy-in, more tickets purchased for the coach seats on the Hillary Train (first class is full). More rah-rah, some actual enthusiasm in her lackluster, enthusiasm-gap trudge toward the throne. They want people to show up at the polls so they have a little cover for the vote-rigging, now that a few folks are seriously looking into that nifty tool.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." --Jiddu Krishnamurti
Exactly. They need actual
voters to show up at the polls, otherwise there's not enough wiggle room to hide their vote rigging.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
When one has to ride on the roof of the train,
holding on for dear life trying to not be swept off is probably priority number one.
I see that the dead are going to have to vote this year for her to get enough votes for her to manipulate.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
Coach?
I think we're in steerage.
Great insight. She's certainly done that in the past.
During the primary, as she was picking up big checks from Goldman Sachs, the Clooney fundraisers, etc. Mook was "in your inbox" asking for donations of $1 in a belated and transparent attempt to try to fake a degree of similitude to the grass roots funding of Sanders.
People donated to Sanders because they were desperate for Sanders to win. Now, they're just desperate.
Other than special interests, it would appear that
the rest of her supporters are not willing to buy a piece of her. In fact, in light of David Brock having to pay people to post "positive" comments about HRC, it would seem that many of her supporters are trying to hold on to their money in case she actually does get elected as they are really going to need it then.
I think it was Politifact that called HRC out on trying to say that most of her support came from those $1 donations. Not true was their conclusion.
Not desperate, just looking for different paths to achieve the changes that Sanders pointed out are needed for a healthy nation.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
So, they have a whole TWO MILLION donors, eh?
Seems to me Bernie had a few more. Jes sayin'.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
I do not recall an ActBlue for HRC at DK.
Was there one or did her "supporters" there think that being hateful in her name was enough?
If supposedly 15 million people voted for HRC in the primaries, one would think that a few more than two million would donate to her campaign. Jes sayin' = )
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
She uses a different platform for fundraising.
I forget what it is.
Ok, did someone set up that platform there then?
What I am saying is that I do not recall there being any fundraising done for HRC at DK back when I was there.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
Yeah
It's called the Clinton Foundation.
I owe you a whole freaking
I owe you a whole freaking bunch more recs than I can give - but they would come from the heart, could I only give them.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Even among the > $250 set, Bernie had 10% more donors
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
Well, given what we're hearing
About how heavily she's advertising, I wouldn't be surprised that she's burning through the money she has raised.
But as far as I'm concerned, if she needs more money then she can go fellate some more banksters, etc.
Maybe the October surprise will be HRC running out
of money for ads just as Trump is gearing up to finally spend some money, so a month of wall-to-wall ads about how unfit she is and near silence from her. That could lead to HRC having to talk to the press which could lead to additional problems for her.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
Michael Moore
Has an article up at huff post stating his belief that trump's political campaign is a publicity stunt that got away from him. I actually can believe it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-moore/trump-self-sabotage_b_115450...
While interesting speculation,
it would not explain why Trump has considered running for president since 1988. It looks more like he was waiting for the right time.
From an article that talks about he many times he has considered running, there is this statement regarding just how sexist and racist Trump is:
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
Thanks for posting this so I
Thanks for posting this so I don't have to, lol. The Clinton campaign likes to bury the relatively few big donors in $1 donations from a bunch of 'the little people' so that it looks better. Optics, when viewed through carefully choreographed smoke and mirrors, are everything to them.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Stock market tip:
IF HRC is elected, invest in smoke and mirrors. Within eight years, you will be able to retire in style.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
Thu, 08/18/2016 - 12:42am —
Thu, 08/18/2016 - 12:42am — WindDancer13
Thanks for the tip! After 8 years of direct corporate law, assuming that Mutual Assured Destruction has not yet occurred, I'm guessing that only those wealthy enough to be able to retire in style will have survived.
On the other hand, in an unregulated stock market, will regular investors retain anything when repeated crashes make all of the money disappear... somewhere?
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Think the party has noticed yet that DemExit happened??
If they were counting on the $27 faithfuls from the primary to just flow to them now, well aren't they surprised?
They may have noticed
but if they admit it's happening, then they have to deal with it. So far (until late state primaries are over), they can pretend it didn't happen.
In fact, they probably won't "notice" that it happened until it becomes too huge to dismiss, and even then they'll downplay it, hoping that the "low information" folks won't notice how thin their support really is.
Which is why we need to keep talking about it!
“We may not be able to change the system, but we can make the system irrelevant in our lives and in the lives of those around us.”—John Beckett
The other blogs claim it fizzled.
That 95% of Democrats stayed in the fold and Shrillary will score a historic landslide perhaps dwarfing FDR-Landon.
I suppose. A computer will give you any number you want.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
I looked for numbers
and could not find anything more recent than mid-July (and that was the notoriously right-leaning Gallup).
The subject is of interest to all. Was there any MSM coverage? And why doesn't someone like PEW do a comparative count?
The absence of any information about the success or failure of that movement is a bit suspicious. I think it would have hit the news big time if it was a failure.
You have to be a bit skeptical
about Clinton talk about "not making their projections." Hillary Clinton is smart enough to have very deep pockets.
"the Democratic Party is not 'left'." -- Sabrina Salvati
Right, she'll just redistribute some big money
and make out like it came from small donors--just like the HVF did with the state Dem parties she stiffed.
But she never planned on Sanders taking a BIG BITE
out of the prospective donor pie.
EDIT: You'd think I was a total illiterate tonight.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Of course.
Clinton, though, knows the super-rich, and knows how to work the quid pro quo arrangements with all of them.
There's no denying her talent, while at the same time despising the direction in which it's headed.
"the Democratic Party is not 'left'." -- Sabrina Salvati
When it comes to campaigning
getting the bigs on her side is her ONLY frickin' talent. She can't strategize unless its cheating in some form or fashion and she can't create a rapport with us lousy commoners cause she might get cooties and she can't do a great interview or speech to save soul.
But she has friends in high places. And knows ALL the powerful sorts. And the CIA probably adores her.
glitterscale
I Like That Term: the "Bigs"
We don't have Right vs Left anymore. It's now Big vs Little -- the Bigs, in your term.
You either punch up or stomp down. Kind of scary.
Oh, and please can we do away with the MSM term?
Mainstream they are not. The media is decidedly corporate.
Corporate stands in the way of Progressive Policy, almost the lone impediment to change. Calling out the corporate media keeps the bogeyman in our crosshairs and keeps our people on point.
MSM gives them too much credit and blurs our focus.
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
The "bigs"
LOL. You reminded me of the old Smothers brothers routine that concludes with the observation that the polity is divided into the less-ons and the morons.
The DNC HAS had money problems for a while
Struggling DNC craves tax dollars for convention
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Sunday, December 13, 2015
Already struggling with finances, the Democratic Party has drafted a plan to have taxpayers help pay about $20 million for next summer’s nominating convention, reversing a change Congress approved just a year ago.
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is also a congresswoman from Florida, has drafted a bill to restore money that both parties used to receive from the federal government to help defray the costs of running their quadrennial conventions.
The Congressional Budget Office revealed the move in a letter released Friday, which said Ms. Wasserman Schultz’s proposal to tap a presidential campaign fund would likely mean each party could get about $20 million in taxpayer money to help with costs.
The DNC is facing tough financial circumstances. The latest report shows it had just $4.7 million in cash on hand as of Oct. 31, less than the $6.9 million in debts the committee reported. By contrast, the Republican National Committee reported $20.4 million in cash, offset by $1.9 million in debts.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/13/dnc-craves-tax-dollars-f...
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Democrats, prior to the primaries, were only 29% of registered voters. Wonder what the new numbers are. And Hell yeah they got money problems. Millions gave to Sanders, not the DNC.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
They don't need our votes, but they want our cash
Got it.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
It's Shillary Clinton. She wants everybody's money.
I think that money is all they care about.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
And power! n/t
How can they add injury to insult if we don’t give ’em $$$ ? n/t
No, they absolutely shouldn't have
taxpayer money to support a corrupted two-party system when we need some serious alternatives to this rigged game.
Ain't that the truth Bob!!??
All the bobble headed Clintonistas talk about the DNC being a "private party, and they could do as they wished...if Bernie was a true dem, Hillary won fair and square, etc., etc.. They don't deserve one stinkin penny from the taxpayers.
Sure, tax the public
so the DNC can spend more money buying stupid teevee ads that nobody believes anyway. Convincing the hoi-polloi that D billionaires are infinitely better than R billionaires is a costly affair. It's good for the Networks' bottom line too, so what's not to like?
native
Political Markets Crash!
Is this a political market crash?
Has the political bubble grown so big that it has to pop?
“Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” ~ Sun Tzu
Of course the DNC'll get 10s
Of course the DNC'll get 10s of millions in taxpayer money!
After all, they're unaccountable private interests controlling electoral choice for the country's 'democracy', the people composing which being those who have no voice or justice even when the DNC's caught blatantly cheating throughout the nominations in order to to thwart the public interest and to serve those hostile to the very concepts of democracy and of the public interest being served by the American publics own government.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
She doesn't need the money, although I'm sure she WANTS it
Apparently, this is how the Democratic Party fund raises. It's a crisis, we're behind, etc. It's always dire. It must work on their normal base of suckers.
So I agree with those above who said this isn't because they need money. I mean, I'm sure she can use every penny she can get her hands on, for all those online trolls, and payoffs for voting machine access, and ads drenching swing states. But I doubt she's actually in trouble. This is Sales/Grifting 101. The more you take a mark down the path of agreeing with you, and taking concrete steps to commit to whatever it is you want them to do, the more likely they are to do it. You send Hillary money -- even a dollar -- you're more likely to feel like you really are invested in her and you'd better get out there and make sure she and you win.
Well, why not just
tap Hill and Bill's bank account or give another speech or two to Wall Street? Gee, is there not a disaster somewhere on the planet they can exploit to raise more money? While Louisiana drowns from a once in 1,000 year flood, while many places are experiencing once in a 1,000 year floods every year, why are they not raising money from these disasters and not funneling it to their campaign? Man these are great opportunities to milk the pubic purse for campaign cash, no? They got rich as all get out off the Haiti disaster! These are just missed opportunities waiting to be exploited! What the hell Mook?
C99, my refuge from an insane world. #ForceTheVote
Sent back the postage paid solicitation yesterday
All I gave them was a short rant about militarism. Last time I told them I'd sent it all to Jill stein, but I guess they are desperate.
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We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
Oooh! I hope I get another one!
This is what I sent them last time:
Brilliant performance, that...
and oh so true.
native
Oh, they need the money
I forget which post I noted it in yesterday--Team Hillary is wall-to-wall covering TV and radio ads in the Orlando market--this week!
The FL POTUS primary was in March.
The FL primary for all other offices is 8/30.
The GE is in, of course, November.
That shit gets expensive. So indeed, they need the cash (because they can't go dipping into the slush funds, anymore at this point). But you realize, she's not on any ticket other than the GE, so why is she spending so much here?
My guess is that she's in a world of hurt in Florida, particularly everywhere north of Orlando. And probably some south of it, being that Little Debbie is no doubt like an anvil to her at present. Maybe repetition for the next four months will help make her look better?
I thought DWS was a really popular politico down in Florida
Are people getting sick of her? Are they upset about her scams with the payday loan people and letting lobbyists again donate to the party? Or do you think she could be 'safe' in her district?
She's done all the damage she could do at the DNC and she's got a new job with her BFF Shillary. Is she really trying to win or is she just waiting for her new job in the Clintoon Mis-Administration?
I know I'm asking a lot of questions but you seem pretty in-tune with all that's Florida related, so thanks for any info/opinion you provide.
For shits and giggles I went over to KOS to see what they think. I was actually surprised.
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WHAT DO YOU THINK?
I'm glad she resigned, but I support her for re-election over Tim Canova 9% 82 votes
I wish she hadn't resigned and I support her for re-election 3% 26 votes
I'm glad she resigned and I support Tim Canova 88% 797 votes
I wish she hadn't resigned, but I support Tim Canova 0% 4 votes
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/7/24/1551878/-Poll-DWS-or-Tim-Canova
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I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Amazing, indeed!
Well, even DK needs a lightning rod, I imagine losing Little Debbie sits well with them, since Her Heinous will hire her for her mal-administration.
Tim Canova is doing well, he seems very popular--Bernie's coattails (such as they were allowed to be) were good for him. He broke some fundraising records at some point, IIRC. All the local LTEs and general jabber-jawing I hear from friends down that way seem to indicate everyone is sick of DWS and he'll be the guy to beat in the GE....I sure hope so. I think the primary is easy for him, but the GE is another story. It's getting real red down here again, uggghhh....
Thank you.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
Hey, I supported the populist candidate
Now I'm supporting the remaining populist candidate. I think the oligarchs ought to support their own candidate.
A lot of wanderers in the U.S. political desert recognize that all the duopoly has to offer is a choice of mirages. Come, let us trudge towards empty expanse of sand #1, littered with the bleached bones of Deaniacs and Hope and Changers.
-- lotlizard
The oligarchs are supporting all their presidential candidates
Jill Stein for President.
Beware the bullshit factories.
The donor pool doesn't move much
At least as of July 1, the number of people giving over $250 to more than one candidate (treating the GOP and Dem fields as one candidate) was about 15K out of 4.1 million. That works out to about 0.3% (not a typo).
I expect that there will be some change when the July data comes out next week, but so far the battle lines have been drawn for months.
Other tidbits: The only people who switched to Stein are Sanders supporters, Clinton got a few more Sanders supporters than vice versa, Trump pulled twice as many from Sanders than Clinton.
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
One more thing: Johnson wasn't pulling anyone from Trump
All his turncoats are Republican Field and Sanders backers.
I can't wait for the July data...
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
That Mook message is a hoot!
Number 1, give a donation and you get a sticker! Wow! Kind of reminds me of the rewards my DD got from her doctor when she was little ... they don't give candy (those PC bastards) instead they let her choose a sticker. And she got to CHOOSE! I bet everyone gets the same sticker from the HRC campaign ... where's the fun in that?
Number 2, as others have pointed out, that "2 million people" stat looks pitifully low, especially considering all the work the campaign put in to simply get $1 from people. Only 2 million takers? Kind of sad, actually.
~OaWN