The Clintons famously rented out the Lincoln bedroom in the ‘90s to wealthy donors who raised and contributed at least $5.4 million to the Democratic National Committee.
Five of those guests are still raising money for Hillary Clinton to this day: Steve Rattner, Maureen White, Lisa & Richard Perry, and Elizabeth Bagley. Rattner’s fundraiser is being held today in New York City.
The gloves are coming off in Florida. Major Democrat donor John Morgan (he employs this guy) is blasting DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, calling her an “irritant” who is becoming “irrelevant.” Wasserman Schultz opposes a Florida proposal Morgan supports that would legalize medical marijuana in Florida.
Marc Caputo at the Miami Herald reports:
“I know personally the most-powerful players in Washington DC. And I can tell you that Debbie Wasserman Schultz isn’t just disliked. She’s despised. She’s an irritant,” Morgan, an outspoken Orlando trial attorney, told the Miami Herald.
“Why she’s trying to undermine this amendment I don’t know,” he said. “But I’ll tell you I will never give a penny or raise a penny for the national party while she’s in leadership. And I have given and helped raise millions.”
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After he saw her statement, Morgan said he grew so angry that he erased her contacts from his telephone. He said he heard that she plans to run for U.S. Senate some day, perhaps in 2016, and he’ll make sure to oppose her if she does.
Morgan, a top donor to President Obama and Sen. Bill Nelson, has put $4 million of his own money into the fight to get this proposal on the ballot in November.
If Andrew Romanoff thought he could whisk Howard Dean in and out of Colorado for a fundraiser and not create some kind of controversy, he must not know Howard Dean very well.
Last week, former DNC chairman Dean headlined a fundraiser for Romanoff—a candidate that repeatedly decries the hyper-partisanship of Washington. So to contain the partisan screeds (“They are not American,” Dean said of the Republican Party), the Romanoff campaign limited press to a handpicked journalist—a move which prompted a blistering critique from Aurora Sentinel editor Dave Perry:
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Things have not looked good for the DCCC this week. Today, former DNC Chairman and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell endorsed Shaughnessy Naughton in the PA-8 Democrat primary over the DCCC’s pick in the race, Kevin Strouse.
This comes only a day after “Democrat” candidate Ed Jany, who the DCCC picked in Florida’s 13th Congressional district, dropped out of the general election race.
And, well, we don’t really need to explain this last “pick,” brought to you by one of the DCCC’s 2013-2014 Frontline Program members…
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On the campaign trail, Andrew Romanoff (D-CO) has repeatedly decried the hyper-partisanship in Washington. During remarks in Denver, CO last March, Romanoff said what Congress and the country need now “are men and women of good will who will take an oath not to a political party, but the constitution and their conscience and their constituents.”
But it’s hard to take Romanoff seriously when he appears to be the darling of national Democrats. Today, former Democrat governor, presidential candidate and DNC Chairman Howard Dean joins Romanoff for a fundraiser party in Aurora. Dean joins a growing list of establishment Democrats lining up behind Romanoff. Last fall, both House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and longtime Democrat stalwart and former Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) attended campaign fundraisers for him.
It’s pretty clear to whom Romanoff has taken an oath, and it’s not the voters of Colorado’s 6th district.
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Alex MacGillis of the New Republic reports on Gov. Martin O’Malley’s remarkable claim that his widely panned speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention was only bad because he was told to tone it down “in order to avoid upstaging the competition” (LOL)
His most high-profile address to date, at the 2012 Democratic convention, was widely judged to be a flop. O’Malley opened with a rousing data point: “Greetings from Maryland, home of the number-one public school system in America for four years in a row!” Then, after an anecdote about the Revolutionary War, came a tedious call-and-response routine explaining how Barack Obama was going to take America “forward, not back.” As O’Malley cupped his hand to his ear, camp-counselor style, leaning ponderously on every syllable of the refrain, even he didn’t seem entirely excited by his own pitch. “He sometimes tries to be more theatrical, and that doesn’t serve him well,” says State Senator Allan Kittleman, a Republican who is favorable toward O’Malley. “When he gets on stage, he tries to be more than who he is.” (Afterward, O’Malley’s camp put it out that he had been asked to tone down his speech at the last minute, in order to avoid upstaging the competition.)
Apparently O'Malley’s first draft was just too exciting! Watch the terrible speech he actually gave here:
