Hurowitz, who is forming a PAC to swiftboat Clinton in early primary states, is obviously a liar. His connection with Edwards is now uncovered.
This is what he said yesterday per politico.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/
Hurowitz and Goldman have both contributed to the campaign of former North Carolina Senator John Edwards, but Hurowitz said their effort is independent of any campaign.
"We have no plans right now to back any particular candidate," Hurowitz said.
The American Prospect has dug out some stuff.
http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tappe
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NEW ANTI-HILLARY PAC PRESIDENT PREVIOUSLY ENDORSED EDWARDS, ACCORDING TO EDWARDS RELEASE
New anti-Hillary Clinton PAC president Glenn Hurowitz of DemocraticCourage.com has previously endorsed Clinton rival John Edwards for president, according to an October 14 press release from the Edwards campaign.On the morning of Oct. 14, the Edwards campaign sent out a press release headlined "EDWARDS WINS ENDORSEMENT FROM FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ACTION." Following news of that endorsement, the release read:
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Lance Holter, Board Member of HI Sierra Club, Chair of Maui Sierra Club Chapter*
Glen Hurowitz, Principal of Democratic Courage
Jared Duval, Writer, Former National Director of Sierra Student Coalition*
Here's the juicy part...
Hurowitz's name is not listed on a truncated version of the press release currently on the John Edwards for President web site, however a copy of the release posted on Oct. 15 on the Democratic Talk Radio Blog listing Hurowitz among the "National Environmentalists for Edwards Leaders" remains available online. I also have a copy of the original press release with Hurowitz's (misspelled) name on it in my e-mail inbox.
Edwards campaign and his guy obviously believe they can hide the connection and coordination since his name was 'truncated'.
Sleazy and desperate move. It appears Edwards and this PAC have crossed a fine line, we hope some people will dig out every bit information, personally, professionally about these folks, everything.
When they cross the line, they need to pay a heavy heavy price. I wouldn't mind a jail time of 30 years for these guys if laws are broken.
Here we go, it's official. An Edwards-linked 527 group will start to run attack ads against Clinton to derail her campain.
It's about time, folks.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1
007/Stopping_Hillary_from_the_Left.html
Stopping Hillary from the left
A newly formed political action committee is aiming to stop Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary by calling into question her progressive credentials."We think there are other Democratic presidential candidates who are both more progressive and have a better chance of beating the Republicans than she does," said the president of Democratic Courage, Glenn Hurowitz.
He declined to tip his hand on the group's case against Clinton, but said the PAC plans a paid media campaign in the early primary states to make its position clear.
"We'll definitely have sufficient resources to make a significant media buy," he said, adding that their campaign against Clinton would be "edgy" enough to get attention. "We don't need to raise an immense amount of money to make a big difference."
Hurowitz and Goldman have both contributed to the campaign of former North Carolina Senator John Edwards, but Hurowitz said their effort is independent of any campaign.
No wonder Edwards is counting on his buddies to pony up when he does not have the money and guts to directly hit on Hillary Clinton.
I predict this move will backfire badly on Edwards' campaign.
This is not a joke!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/23/AR2007102301882.html?hpid=moreheadlines Elrick Williams?s
As Campaigns Chafe at Limits, Donors Might Be in Diapers
Elrick Williams's toddler niece Carlyn may be one of the youngest contributors to this year's presidential campaign. The 2-year-old gave $2,300 to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).So did her sister and brother, Imara, 13, and Ishmael, 9, and her cousins Chan and Alexis, both 13. Altogether, according to newly released campaign finance reports, the extended family of Williams, a wealthy Chicago financier, handed over nearly a dozen checks in March for the maximum allowed under federal law to Obama.
Paula Madison, a Los Angeles entertainment executive who is one of Elrick Williams's sisters (he referred calls to her), said Williams had not been regularly involved in political fundraising but got excited about the notion of seeing an African American elected president. He talked to every member of the family about his desire to help Obama. One relative served as a trustee for a fund set up for Williams's children, nieces and nephews, Madison said.
They believed that because a trustee was legally responsible for handling the children's money, that trustee could make the donations on their behalf.
Lawrence Noble, a former FEC general counsel, said the involvement of a trustee can help prove that the child used his or her own money -- which is important -- but does not, on its own, make the contribution legal.
This is the second time in two months that the Obama campaign has returned contributions from young children. The first involved donations from Maryland developer Aris Mardirossian's two children, Matthew, 8, and Karis, 7; each contributed $2,300 to Obama's primary campaign and $2,300 more for a possible general-election contest.
This is even better,
"My children are very engaged in politics, Mardirossian said. "The whole family is engaged. Every Sunday we get together, all the cousins, everybody comes and talks about politics. The children sit down and listen to the debates and everything."
Obama is also showing no signs of backing away from controversial anti-gay singer McClurkin. The influencial HRC will soon jump in and we'll keep a close eye on his antics of using on group to demonize another group.
http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2007/10
23/obama-takes-heat-from-gays-on-gospel
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And now we hear, via MSNBC, that Obama's staff think they've weathered the storm, that the crisis has now passed, and it won't damage them much at all.
However, the Obama campaign showed no signs of backing away from McClurkin's inclusion on the 3-day concert tour through South Carolina.
Meanwhile, Dodd takes a brilliant swipe at Edwards's expensive haircuts...
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/
Dodd and Edwards
I didn't catch this on the first listen to Chris Dodd's new ad, but as his barbershop scene fades at the very end, he asks the barber, "How much are these haircuts?"It's an obvious shot at John Edwards, and seems to be part of a broader move by Dodd to attempt to occupy what had been, specifically, Edwards' place in the race: As the hero of the online Left and the voice of confrontation, rather than compromise, with the administration.
Watch Dodd's ad yourself!
Overall, the survey shows how much the Democratic race has solidified -- particularly now with the near-certainty that Vice President Al Gore will not join the field. In the June Times/Bloomberg poll in which Clinton held an 11-percentage point lead over Obama, Gore won support from 15% of Democrats. The survey found that Clinton, with support from 48% of Democrats, and Obama, with 17%, were followed by Edwards with 13%, and Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, with 2% each. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio and former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel drew less than 2% support. Some 15% did not make a selection.
As a leading actor in her husband's presidency, Clinton entered the race for the White House linked tightly to his legacy of personal scandal and political polarization. But today, the Times/Bloomberg poll found, nearly two-thirds of Democrats and nearly half of all voters say Hillary Clinton's famously unsuccessful effort in the 1990s to provide health coverage for all Americans makes her better able now to deal with healthcare as president. ... On healthcare, the poll findings suggest that Clinton has successfully turned one of her great failures as first lady into an advantage. Clinton often says she has the "bruises" to show from her hard-learned lessons on healthcare -- and 49% of voters say that her experience from the 1990s would help her reform healthcare as president. Only 19% say it would hurt her if she tried to tackle the issue again. "She's a person who learns from her mistakes," said poll respondent Gerard Aman, a retired government economist in McLean, Va.
Among all registered voters, the New York senator wins hypothetical head-to-head matchups against each of the four most high-profile Republican candidates. For example, Clinton tops Giuliani 47% to 41%, on the edge of the poll's margin of error. She beats the other GOP candidates by larger margins in the hypothetical contests.
Clinton's negative ratings have shifted significantly in recent months, other surveys show. The Gallup Poll, for example, reports that Clinton's unfavorable rating among all voters climbed to 52% in April from 40% in February, before falling this month to 44% -- the same rating as reported in the Times/Bloomberg poll.
A very candid conversation with David Yepsen. She is a realist. She has the big picture. I have no doubt she will prevail no matter whether she wins or loses Iowa. This interview is the most candid I've seen so far regardin the state of the race and it's definitely worth reading.
David Yepsen: Iowa presents steepest hill for Clinton to scale
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.d
ll/article?AID=/20071023/OPINION01/71023
0367/1035/OPINION
Hillary Clinton was candid about her chances in Iowa during a weekend interview, calling Iowa the "hardest state" she faces in her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination."I have no illusions this is the hardest state," she said. "I take nothing for granted."
Other presidential candidates such as John Edwards and Barack Obama understand that if they don't stop her here, in the leadoff state, they may not get a chance elsewhere. So, they are pouring everything into Iowa in an effort to trip her.
"That's a real problem for me," she said. "I know that. That's what they should be doing. They haven't broken through on the national level."
She laughs: "I am well aware this is 'pile on.' I used to play touch football with my brothers and my friends, and I am on the bottom and they are piling on, and I'm thinking how am I going to get out of here?"
She said she has lagged in Iowa because "I have no pre-existing relationship with the state. Bill never campaigned here. I spent weeks in New Hampshire," because Tom Harkin's candidacy in 1992 prompted other Democrats like her husband to bypass Iowa.
"John Edwards has been living here for four years and that counts. I respect that, those personal relationships are important. Barack has been here before he announced. I never did," she said. "I started so far behind. Even I was shocked how far behind I was when we first started."
"Trying to translate the interest people have in my candidacy into caucus-goers is something people have tried to do and failed in the past," she said.Clinton may have another problem in Iowa.
"I was shocked when I learned Iowa and Mississippi have never elected a woman governor, senator or member of Congress. There has got to be something at work here," she said, theorizing it may be the risk-averse nature of a state built around agriculture.
"I think not only do I have to bring people to me, I have to maybe reassure people here maybe more than I do in New Hampshire, which has had a woman governor," she said.
"I think Iowa poses a special burden, or a special obstacle to me because when you look at the numbers, how can Iowa be ranked with Mississippi? That's not what I see. That's not the quality. That's not the communitarianism, that's not the openness I see in Iowa."
"As well as I do, I still have to go over a much higher hurdle in Iowa than anybody else," Clinton said.
She is so calm and determined.
Hillary Clinton has been campaigning in NV and CA over the past two or three days. She is continuing to generate momentum and spread her core message to the West.
Clinton's campaign has garnered lots of positive local coverage.
Nevada
Hillary Clinton granted an exclusive one-on-one interview with KLAS station. Click to watch(two clips):
HEALTH CARE CHOICES: Nevadans share health care tales
http://www.lvrj.com/news/10711666.html
When Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton opened the floor Sunday after a health care-themed talk in Las Vegas, most people didn't want to ask her a question so much as tell her a story.
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Clinton's husband, the former president, was famous for weaving ordinary Americans' stories into his speeches, a habit some derided as a gimmick or phony or even exploitative. But collecting and dispensing real-life tales is clearly a tendency shared by Hillary Clinton as she makes a run of her own.
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In each tale, Clinton found the underlying issue and explained how she would fix it. Her health care plan, she said, would "take on" the insurance and pharmaceutical industries' bad practices. It would improve health care quality and give people more choices between insurance plans. It would eliminate COBRA and make insurance fully portable from job to job and state to state.And so on, and so on. "Everybody has a story. Everybody is concerned about the future," Clinton said. "This is going to have to be approached as a shared responsibility." Health care, she said, is "a real problem, and it's a problem we need to have an election about."
Returning to Nevada for the first time in more than two months, Clinton had a full day Sunday, attending services at a Baptist church in the morning, meeting with unions, dropping in at a meeting of the Clark County Democratic Party and holding a rally at the newly constructed Springs Preserve's amphitheater.
Backed by risers full of members of the machinists and letter carriers unions, which have endorsed her, Clinton gave a 20-minute summary of her campaign platform, touching on foreign policy, the economy, education, energy and, of course, health care. The biggest cheer, as always at Democratic campaign events, came when she declared her commitment to ending the Iraq war.
She hammered home what has become a campaign theme, "invisibility." "When you look around you, people are working as hard as they can, but they don't feel like they're getting ahead, do they?" she said. "They feel invisible to our president. ... When I am president, there will not be invisible Americans any longer."
That was the note that resonated with audience member Dave Garrett, 58, a union ironworker. "I'm all for her," he said. "She's a strong supporter of the middle class, and the middle class is disappearing in this country."
The influencial LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is planning to campaign heavily among Latino voters in Nevada on behalf of Hillary.
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_7230520
In his first foray out of the city on behalf of the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will begin an effort this weekend in Nevada to draw Latino voters on her behalf."A Democrat in the White House, coupled with a Democratic majority in the Congress, will mean a new era of investment and a partnership that cities like Los Angeles so desperately need," Villaraigosa said of his role in Clinton's campaign.
The mayor said he plans to make additional trips for Clinton throughout the nation as the campaign develops.
Villaraigosa is the most high-profile Latino elected official to endorse Clinton in the race and serves as one of her national co-chairs.
Hillary draws thousands in Fresno, California
http://www.fresnobee.com/updates/photo/s tory/170735.html
Thousands of people outside Fresno High School listened and cheered this morning as presidential candidate Hillary Clinton capped a campaign rally with her favorite themes: affordable health care, renewable energy and an end to U.S. fighting in Iraq.The Clinton campaign claimed 7,500 turned out for the rally along a closed Echo Avenue, which fronts the high school. Fresno police spokesman Jeff Cardinale, however, said the crowd count was between 2,500 and 3,500.
The U.S. senator from New York took the stage, set up on the sidewalk along Echo, at 9:47 a.m. and spoke for 30 minutes.
"Let me ask you: Are you ready for change?" the Democratic candidate said, in a slightly hoarse voice, to cheers from the placard-waving audience.
Most of the people at the rally sounded like Teresa DeAnda of Earlimart, a self-described air quality activist. A Democrat, DeAnda said she came to the event undecided over which candidate she would support. She came away squarely in the Clinton camp."She really gave me hope right now," DeAnda said.
The Clinton campaign had hoped to surpass what they said was the biggest turnout for a presidential candidate in Fresno history -- an estimated 5,000 who came to see Sen. Robert Kennedy in April 1968.
Tomorrow is going to be CO!!
Wow, Washington Post is on a roll. Finally MSM is calling out those two hypocrites on a variety of issues.
Yesterday was an editorial article demolishing Obama's hypocricy on Iran.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con
tent/article/2007/10/20/AR2007102000984.
html
A Difference on Iran?
In fact the two leading Democratic candidates have advocated pretty much the same policy for Iran, just as they have for Iraq. In the case of Iran, the strategy is, for the most part, centrist and sensible and doesn't differ much from what the Bush administration is doing. Now, trailing in the polls and sensing a political opportunity, Mr. Obama is trying to portray Ms. Clinton as a reckless saber-rattler. That is irresponsible and -- given the ease with which the charge can be rebutted -- probably naive, as well.
Today is some facts check on Obama & Edwards' connection to lobbysts.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-chec
ker/2007/10/obama_edwards_and_the_lobbyi
ng.html
Obama, Edwards, and the Lobbying Industry
Exhibit A in the drive by both Obama and Edwards to "clean up" Washington is their refusal to accept "a dime" from "Washington lobbyists."But it turns out that both Edwards and Obama have adopted a narrow definition of the word lobbyist, which raises questions about the effectiveness of their campaign.They still take money from state lobbyists.
They make no attempt to distinguish between lobbyists for big corporations and lobbyists for small non-profits. They treat a lobbyist for Haliburton in the same way as a lobbyist for child poverty or cancer research.
They accept money from former lobbyists and future lobbyists.
As Clinton has pointed out, her rivals have no problem taking money from the people who pay the lobbyists, and give them their "marching orders." (ABC News debate, August 19, 2007.)
They have no problem about taking money from people representing other "special interests," e.g. trial lawyers and the hedge fund industry
Numbers!
So far this year, according to Opensecrets.org, Edwards has taken more than $8 million from lawyers and law firms, some of whom employ the federally-registered lobbyists whose lucre he refuses to touch. Obama is not far behind: $7.5 million.Obama has emphasized that he does not take money from PhRMA, the powerful lobbying arm of the pharmaceutical industry. On the other hand, he does not seem to mind taking money from senior employees of PhRMA members, such as Pfizer and Eli Lilly. Campaign finance records show that he has raised about $250,000 in pharmaceutical-related contributions this year. (Clinton collected $269,000.) He has also not been averse to helping out Illinois-based pharmaceutical companies with "tariff suspensions."
Nor does refusing to accept money from federal lobbyists prevent the Obama and Edwards campaigns from accepting in-kind contributions from registered lobbyists in the form of volunteer work. See this Roll Call article. My colleague, Matt Mosk, recently reported that the Obama campaign is hiring a top lobbyist, Moses Mercado, as a senior adviser. Mercado's accounts with the Ogilvy Government Relations lobbyist group included Pfizer, United Health Group, and the Blackstone Group, which paid millions of dollars to Ogilvy to defeat proposals for doubling taxes paid by private equity managers. Mercado has said he will take a "leave of absence" from Ogilvy in order to work for Obama.
In the meantime, the Obama campaign returned a $250 contribution from a small-time federal lobbyist named Gigi Sohn, who works for a non-profit organization called Public Knowledge that advocates digital consumer rights. Sohn has, however, been permitted to help the campaign as a volunteer. In an interview with Roll Call, Sohn described Obama's position on lobbyists as "absurd." She said that the loopholes in the anti-lobbyist campaign were "big enough to drive a truck through."
NYT detailed Edwards' outrageous behavior of accepting in-kind contributions by taking advantage of the loopholes of campaign financing laws. The amount of money he accepted is eye-opening. This is pretty corrupt behavior, IMHO.
John Edwards, who raised $7.1 million for the quarter but spent $8.2 million, was spending at a rate of $1.17 for every dollar raised in the third quarter.One big savings for Mr. Edwards is his use of the private jet of Fred Baron, a trial attorney, who is allowed to charge the campaign discount rates. Mr. Edwards paid Mr. Baron $234,000 for the use of his jet. Mrs. Clinton used chartered jets, which cost more, and paid $1 million. "
Taylor Marsh is getting better and better.
http://www.taylormarsh.com/
Dumbest Clinton Column Ever Published
Clinton lived with column after column about her hair in the 1990s.We've endured cleavage watch.
Then there was cacklegate.
But boy, Sarah Baxter of the Times Online must be really bored. She's done a Degeneres-Iggy type, swing and a miss reach out over the Clinton's giving Socks to Betty Curie. Seriously, will "journalists" ever decide to cover Clinton with any seriousness?
AS THE "first pet" of the Clinton era, Socks, the White House cat, allowed "chilly" Hillary Clinton to show a caring, maternal side as well as bringing joy to her daughter Chelsea. So where is Socks today?Some believe the abandoned pet could now come between Hillary Clinton and her ambition to return to the White House as America's first woman president.
This one from Caitlin Flanagan is equally entertaining.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/2007
11/flanagan-hillary
One woman's estrangement from Hillary Rodham Clinton
When I first heard, during the strange final days of Bill Clinton's presidency, that the first couple were going to jettison Socks, the family cat, I assumed that it was one of those weird rumors that attach themselves to the Clintons, in this case one easily dispelled: a single photograph of the kitty happily curled up on a window seat in his new home, and that would be the end of it. But then, as so often happens with weird rumors that attach themselves to the Clintons, the story turned out to be 100 percent true.
The condition of Andrew Sullivan, who's been suffering from 'Hillary derangement syndrome' for years has rapidly deteriorated. According to hwc...
Andrew Sullivan said on today's Chris Matthews Show that Hillary's biggest problem is her voice (presumably because she sounds like a woman?). He recommends that she go to a speech therapist and learn to talk really, really low like Margaret Thatcher (presumably, you know, so that she sounds like a man?).
Oh, boy, how can we help these folks out? It appears 'Hillary derangement syndrome' is highly contageous, you can smell it here on myDD as well! Well, this syndrome itself is not deadly but will be chronically painful for those who catch it.
Folks, It's going to be loooog loooog eight years.
· McCain: Afghanistan Not a "Major Conflict" (Jonathan Singer)
· McCain Press Pool Goes Commando (Tracy Joan)
· Schumer: 60 Dem Senators Possible (Josh Orton)
· Jindal Out (Josh Orton)
· Scalise and Kennedy Shilling for Big Oil (DailyKingFish)
· IA: Grassley and Christian conservatives at odds (desmoinesdem)
· Richardson tells McCain to stop whining (fbihop)
· OR-SEN: New DSCC/IE ad in Oregon (karichisholm)
· NM Dems GET the netroots; GOP not so much (fbihop)
· Louisiana House 2Q Fundraising #'s (DailyKingFish)
· OR-SEN: Merkley's Netroots Nation video (karichisholm)
· AK-Sen: New Begich Ad (Matt Browner Hamlin)
