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Fundraising shortfall or right on track? That's the question raised by a Bloomberg story reporting that the Democratic Party is $27 million behind its funding goal to underwrite September's National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. Apparently, this budget deficit may have prompted Democrats to cancel a convention kick-off event at the Charlotte Motor Speedway and relocate it to the main business district, the Bloomberg article implies.
Bloomberg cites "two people familiar with the matter who requested anonymity to discuss internal party politics" as the sources claiming there's a funding shortfall. But Steve Kerrigan, chief executive officer of the convention committee, flatly denied any budgetary problems. "We are right on track with fundraising," he said in a phone call with the National Journal. "I don't know where they are getting their numbers from."
At Denver's 2008 convention, corporate sponsorships amounted to more than $33 million of that year's fundraising goal. But this year
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What's amazing is that they've been screwing people for so long and they are shocked at the difficulty they are having raising money. Who would have thought it?
Is it true the event is being moved to a Putt Putt?...Ahh music to my ears !
Fundraising shortfall or right on track? That's the question raised by a Bloomberg story reporting that the Democratic Party is $27 million behind its funding goal to underwrite September's National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. Apparently, this budget deficit may have prompted Democrats to cancel a convention kick-off event at the Charlotte Motor Speedway and relocate it to the main business district, the Bloomberg article implies.
Bloomberg cites "two people familiar with the matter who requested anonymity to discuss internal party politics" as the sources claiming there's a funding shortfall. But Steve Kerrigan, chief executive officer of the convention committee, flatly denied any budgetary problems. "We are right on track with fundraising," he said in a phone call with the National Journal. "I don't know where they are getting their numbers from."
At Denver's 2008 convention, corporate sponsorships amounted to more than $33 million of that year's fundraising goal. But this year
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dean I want dirty air and water, absolutely, you're a liberal zealot and a moron. Go bow to your poster of Obama, shirtless of course!
dean I want dirty air and water, absolutely, you're a liberal zealot and a moron. Go bow to your poster of Obama, shirtless of course!
We know. Finally, for once, honesty from you. Thought it would never happen.
Dems needed an FDR or LBJ - someone who can play hardball. As it stands, Obama couldn't even get his own party to vote for his most important policies. The Blue Dogs forced him to bend every piece of legislation. His stimulus turned out to be loaded with tax cuts for the wealthy, whose consumption isn't changed when they get more money.
The Left should have went to school on Clinton. Slick Willy balanced the budget, cut welfare, and presided over massive economic growth - but he was still destroyed by the Right, who ensnared him in a sex perjury trap that was tame compared to the wide stance Republican pedophiles in congress.
Obama doesn't get it. He can preside over the lowest tax rates in the nation's history and they are still going to call him a fascist socialist marxist muslim. He's got nothing to lose by actually fighting, yet his economic team is staffed with folks closer to Friedman than Keynes. Nobody in his cabinet or political team would qualify as a Democrat in the 60s. They would all have been moderate Republicans.
The Left needed a president who realized that he was in a bar fight. -a fight where the GOP was going to hit him over the head with filibusters until he was face down in a puddle of Colt 45. The Left needed a fighter, but instead they got the Bush tax cuts, no public option, and the continuation of the Patriot Act > a third term of Bush.
So yeah - it's hard to raise money for that. I'd rather see Mitt Romney own this economy so the country can finally see how dangerous supply side economics is during a deflationary period. If Obama stays in office, he will continue to get called Stalin by the Right when, in fact, he's more like Jimmy Carter - a man who doesn't understand that he is going to get destroyed by the Right even when he passes their policies. Meaning: if you're going down, why not go down swinging? Forget about finding a consensus with the Right.
You think Dick Chaney would let the Republican equivalent of Blue Dogs stop the Iraq War? Answer: no fucking way; some planes would have gone down. Chaney comes from the old school - a la Nixon. And so did FDR and LBJ. These politicians - like 'em or hate 'em - understood the game. If you fucked with them, [edit] let's just say things didn't turn out so well for you.
The game is over. The Left needs to go back to the drawing board and find some balls.
