A little more on the Pelosi letter
Several bits on yesterday's "donor letter" threatening Pelosi.
First, Pelosi pretty much said, "screw you" through a spokesman.
The Clinton camp has decidedly not disavowed the tactic.
And we've got at least one big donor offering to make up the difference, and some of the Obama online folks trying to do the same. (Later: Moveon, too.)
(Now there's another "leaders and financial supporters" letter to Howard Dean about Florida and Michigan.)
I don't have any evidence, but I find it hard to believe that this tactic is going down too well among the non-Clinton supporting superdelegates.
First, Pelosi pretty much said, "screw you" through a spokesman.
The Clinton camp has decidedly not disavowed the tactic.
And we've got at least one big donor offering to make up the difference, and some of the Obama online folks trying to do the same. (Later: Moveon, too.)
(Now there's another "leaders and financial supporters" letter to Howard Dean about Florida and Michigan.)
I don't have any evidence, but I find it hard to believe that this tactic is going down too well among the non-Clinton supporting superdelegates.
posted by mikevotes at
5:40 PM
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Howard Dean's no shrinking violet. As someone who pioneered grass-roots, bottom-up campaigning, I bet this sort of fat-cat bullshit went over like a lead balloon.
Frankly, I think the party would be best served if these dinosaurs of privileged manipulation and coercion were to be publicly smacked. Democrats really need to grow a backbone... to stand up to Bush/Cheney or their own insider Cosa Nostra.
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-epm, at 6:39 PM
I agree. If Howard Dean was going to be cowed, we would have seen it long before this.
And, "these dinosaurs of privileged manipulation...." ---- simply as a phrase, that's just beautiful.
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mikevotes, at 9:16 PM
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