Pro-Hillary Third Party Groups Drop Nearly $300,000 On Mailings And Phone Banks In One Day
Third party groups supporting Hillary plunked down an astonishing sum of nearly $300,000 in political spending in one day yesterday, a cash outlay that will almost all fund mailings and phone-bank calls.
FEC filings show that the pro-choice group Emily's List shelled out nearly $190,000 yesterday for mailers and phone banks, while the American Federation of Teachers spent nearly $95,000 yesterday, all on direct mail. The filings show the dates of the expenditures, but not necessarily when the mailings will be sent or the calls will be made.
The nearly $300,000 is a big one-day buy that will almost certainly unleash a wave of mailings in the next few days, most likely in Iowa and perhaps in New Hampshire. At least one third-party mailing has already caused controversy in the race: Yesterday John Edwards criticized the Hillary campaign over a mailer sent out by a pro-Hillary labor union attacking Barack Obama's health care plan, saying that the mailing's inclusion of an Edwards quote was designed to suggest that Edwards was behind it.
As the race nears the voting, we'll see more big one-day money drops like these -- and we'll be cataloging them all here at TPM Election Central.
Comments (55)
M wrote on December 21, 2007 4:03 PM:Thanks for cataloguing this information. I think this kind of informative reporting of the facts further sheds light on how the political process in this country actually operates. Keep up the great work!
Mike wrote on December 21, 2007 4:10 PM:Sounds like Edwards is up to his dirty
lawyer tricks again.
Edwards is bad news
Anonymous wrote on December 21, 2007 4:10 PM:Ugh. Another reason not to vote for Hillary.
Greg DeLassus wrote on December 21, 2007 4:13 PM:Sounds like Edwards is up to his dirty lawyer tricks again.
Huh? What in the blog post above could possibly warrant this claim?
nogo war wrote on December 21, 2007 4:21 PM:Emily's list does what it does. I understand and it is good. They have learned about timing.
As for the AFT? All I can say is canvassing Dems last 2 weeks in
my precinct in Denver There are 16 Teachers.
Breakdown..
Edwards 6
Obama 3
Clinton 2
Kucinich 1
Dodd 1
Biden 1
Richardson 1
Undecided 1
2/5 Caucus?
I urged all to attend...
(Yes I did pass out
my personal Edwards points)
For what it's worth..
(note this was done on my own going on address data from 2004 and 2006 available to anyone)
Hey -
Are you sure you're not slanting the headlines with your editorializing?
"Third Party Groups Drop Nearly.. " sounds as if their contributions have fallen!
What the text of the story seems to say is that they seemed to have "plunked down an astonishing sum ..."
Not sure who, if anyone's trying to play mind games with the headlines...but just pointing out.
(I am for all the candidates - I love them all, but I'm real scared one or all'll go 'wobbly' on us when the GOP attack dogs wake up)
Tim wrote on December 21, 2007 4:24 PM:Edwards is always lurking looking for any opening. I would not be surprised
if some of this money actually came from his supporters to triangulate the rumors.
I cannot trust Edwards after he cashed out on his off shore hedge fund at the expense of poor home owners.
He looks nice bet he certainly does not play nice
Nothing would surprise me with him!
Kefa461@gmail.com wrote on December 21, 2007 4:26 PM:keep those cards and letters coming.
nogo war wrote on December 21, 2007 4:27 PM:Tim..I am assuming you do not support Clinton II?
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aGwhTXxfCSHo&refer=home
cms wrote on December 21, 2007 4:32 PM:Thank God I didn't give money to them this year.
We in the Anyone But Clinton camps pray, from Sgt Kleefeld's lips to God's ear, that Emily and her list waste all that money on mailbox lit dumps that no one will read and on phone banks the results of which cannot be shared with Mrs Bill on pain of a stay in a US penitentiary
Smell Mrs. Bill's desperation folks! Smells like an ABC victory!
The more HRC I see, the more she looks like a gooper.
Anonymous wrote on December 21, 2007 5:24 PM:"Edwards is always lurking looking for any opening. I would not be surprised
if some of this money actually came from his supporters to triangulate the rumors."
Wow! That diabolical Edwards is funding the Clinton campaign!
Richard L. Adlof wrote on December 21, 2007 5:45 PM:Mike:
Is your brother your father going back five or six generations or something?
A Clinton conspiritors gets Clinton crap on his name and he points out the truth and you say its his lawyer slime.
Ask your dealer for the good stuff next time.
pacc wrote on December 21, 2007 6:00 PM:And still more good news as the Clinton campaign kicks into gear. Poor dumb ass Barry. He peaked too soon.
NH's Keene Sentinel Endorses HillaryConcerned In Iowa wrote on December 21, 2007 6:08 PM:"...the candidate with the best ideas, as well as the imagination, know-how and bearing to carry them out, is Hillary Clinton. She has the best health-insurance proposal of all the candidates, and there are several good proposals to choose from. She has significant international experience, considerably more than some of her rivals. Face-to-face, she is as personable, passionate and persuasive as any American political figure in recent memory, qualities that should come in handy in both domestic and international forums."
I HOPE Hillary floods Iowa with phone bank calls. This is the most annoying, distracing, unproductive political campaign devise invited by mankind. Someone profiteering company must have sold Hillary a bill of goods on phone bank calls. Hillary, Big mistake. BIG.
kjoe wrote on December 21, 2007 6:10 PM:She has the best health-insurance proposal of all the candidates, and there are several good proposals to choose from.
He is going to get a call from Mark Penn for going off message.
Anonymous wrote on December 21, 2007 6:11 PM:pacc, please grow up. Silly name calling does nothing to advance the cause of democracy.
Obama has 3 to 1 newspaper endorsements in NH, plus the Boston Globe, the newspaper of record for the region. What's you point?
mkolb wrote on December 21, 2007 6:43 PM:With around 200,000 Iowans actually caucusing(sp?) historically, how much will be the total $$ spent per vote? (What a waste!)
Mark Billingsley wrote on December 21, 2007 6:51 PM:I'll see your Keene Sentinel and raise you a Portsmouth Herald.
All elections are unique, but not all of them are historically significant. We believe that the election of 2008 will prove to be one of the most important since Franklin Roosevelt brought this country a New Deal in 1932.
The Portsmouth Herald is endorsing Sen. Barack Obama as the Democratic choice in the New Hampshire primary because we believe he has a unique character and far-reaching vision to lead this country as it faces war abroad and economic instability at home. He is the 21st century candidate the country needs.
Chuckle wrote on December 21, 2007 6:53 PM:"significant international experience..." doing what? Going on photo safaris with Chelsea? Come on, release her papers from when she was first lady. I want to see evidence of this experience not just her recitation of "I have 35 years experience" blah blah blah
LuigiDaMan wrote on December 21, 2007 7:10 PM:Come on Hillary, knock the ball out of the park and win this thing!
Glad to see the money is going to good use.
Gus wrote on December 21, 2007 8:12 PM:Good to see the dc establishment going for broke in Iowa and NH. If as now seemse likely, Clinton doesn't sweep them and finds herself on Jan 10 in a 1 on 1 dogfight with Edwards or Obama, or even a three-way caged death-match, thats one less resource she'll have available.
I wish some reporter would take a little time to try to estimate how much Clinton has spent of the $100m she's raised for the primary. By my seat-of-the-pants rendering, with no real knowledge other than whats reported in the major papers, I'd guess she's got less than $10m left by Jan 3, which means she'll have effectively spent away any financial advantage over Edwards and would be far behind Obama moving to NV SC and beyond.
Keith wrote on December 21, 2007 8:24 PM:Interesting, Emily's List and HRC surrogates are dropping significant cash, on the one hand, and HRC is instructing her campaign to lower expectations in Iowa on the other.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1207/7518.html
Conflicting messages I'd say.
Jeremy wrote on December 21, 2007 9:37 PM:How about a thread covering this story?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/21/unionists-slam-hypocriti_n_77899.html
Also, did Emily's List support the "Workplace Religious Freedom Act" that Hillary worked on with Santorum?
pacc wrote on December 21, 2007 11:31 PM:Anonymous wrote :oleeb wrote on December 21, 2007 11:48 PM:pacc...
Obama has 3 to 1 newspaper endorsements in NH, plus the Boston Globe, the newspaper of record for the region. What's you point?
Dear Bullshit O-Bomb-A supporter,
Put up or shut up.
It's truly astounding how uniformly obnoxious and robotic the Hillary shills are. They are mean, nasty and bitterly hateful toward every and anyone. They expect to rip and claw and insult their way to the nomination and then everyone else is supposed to get behind them? It's amazing nerve I'll say that. But frankly, I'd rather see a genuine Republican win than vote for Hillary and Kool Aid squad, but then again it won't matter cause there ain't a chance in hell she ever gets anywhere near being elected President. Her ongoing support of the war sealed the deal for me. So, vote for Hillary? Over my dead body.
Keith wrote on December 21, 2007 11:52 PM:He got the Portsmouth Herald, the Exeter(sp) News and the Valley News. In addition to the Boston Globe.
Dan wrote on December 21, 2007 11:56 PM:Why are these groups allowed to spend such large sums of money. I thought the most you could donate to a campaign is 2300. Why are they allowed to buy Phone bank money and direct Mailers for any Candidate. This just seems wrong to me. It should just be the campaigns doing this stuff, not third parties, and that goes for any of the capaigns!
DonnaG wrote on December 22, 2007 12:00 AM:My old dictionary has a section devoted to acronyms.
P.A.C.C. stands for
'preying aggravates common civility'.
Look at all the dumb ass O-Bomb-A supporters trying to show how clever they are....
You see, this is the perfect example of the nearly pathological attempt of you fluffers to simply make things up in the expectation that your delusion will carry the day.
It will not.
In addition to the NH Keene Sentinel's endorsement of Senator Clinton (that I cited above), the Littleton Courier, Coos County Democrat (Lancaster, NH) and Berlin Reporter, the Granite State News (Wolfeboro, NH), Carroll County Independent (Conway, NH), Meredith News, Record Enterprise (Plymouth, NH), Winnisquam Echo (Tilton, NH), Gilford Steamer, Baysider (Alton, NH), and Mountain Ear (Conway, NH) have also endorsed Senator Clinton. (The Salmon Press endorsed Bill Bradley for president in 2000 and Howard Dean in 2004.)
If you're counting (yes, it's more than the fingers on your one hand), Senator Clinton has been endorsed by at least 12 New Hampshire papers.
Keith (above) notes that O-Bomb-A got the Portsmouth Herald, the Exeter(sp) News and the Valley News endorsements (in addition to the out-of-state Boston Globe).
So the bullshit anonymous O-Bomb-A cheerleader who claimed that "Obama has 3 to 1 newspaper endorsements in NH," is just that, bullshit spin with no basis in reality.
Can't wait till your candidate is defeated. Then we will purge your from out party, as it should be.
David in Burbank wrote on December 22, 2007 12:25 AM:"Why are these groups allowed to spend such large sums of money."
Its called free speech. They just aren't allowed to coordinate with the campaign they are supporting...then it's an illegal campaign contribution.
Whoever the nominee ends up being, we Democrats will want very much for this uncoordinated free speech to be taking place. Our candidate will need all the help we can give them countering the well oiled republican slime machine.
(ps - I support obama.)
keith wrote on December 22, 2007 12:55 AM:Pacc:
How many of those papers are unaffiliated? I seem to recall that Clinton was endorsed by the Salmon Press, which owns 11 weekly newspapers. So that's one. Plus the one you noted above. So it's 3-2.
It's like some of you folks think no one else has access to Google.
Desider wrote on December 22, 2007 1:46 AM:Chuckle,
Simply go to the archives of Hillary's First Lady site and you get the idea of the focus on her foreign travel to 80 countries:
http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=43
http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/issues.html
No need for an FOIA request, it's all on the internet. Unless you need to know how often she changed her underwear.
Need more? Here are some personal recollections on Huffington Post, including memories of her trip to Africa:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-wilson/the-real-hillary-i-know-_b_77878.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/derek-shearer/hillary-as-an-agent-of-ch_b_76156.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lissa-muscatine-and-melanne-verveer/hillarys-unprecedented-e_b_76883.html
Happy reading, ask if you have any questions.
keith wrote:Pacc:
How many of those papers are unaffiliated? I seem to recall that Clinton was endorsed by the Salmon Press, which owns 11 weekly newspapers. So that's one. Plus the one you noted above. So it's 3-2.
It's like some of you folks think no one else has access to Google.
Once again the smarmy bullshit O-Bomb-A cheerleader response is to ignore the original O-bomb-A cheerleader bullshit that was being corrected.
The bullshit anonymous O-Bomb-A cheerleader who claimed that "Obama has 3 to 1 newspaper endorsements in NH," remains just that, bullshit spin with no basis in reality.
Keith wrote on December 22, 2007 2:14 AM:
Pacc:
They were off by one, you were off by 10. Perhaps you should learn to add before you correct anyone else.
Abe wrote on December 22, 2007 2:43 AM:I might comment that Obama has the endorsement of both U.S. representatives from New Hamshipre. BOTH of them.
So this newspaper endorsement debate seems rather scurrilous.
jeanba wrote on December 22, 2007 2:45 AM:Pacc,
Thanks for your stupidity, now I have no reason to vote for Hillary either primary or general if she wins the nomination. I would rather vote for Huckabee or even Rudy. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know. Your hatred of Obama is beyond belief! Are you jealous of him because he is so successful and you are not? Get a life, you are a disgrace to Clinton II.
Desider wrote on December 22, 2007 3:06 AM:Jeanba,
You're deciding your vote on the President of the United States based on someone commenting on a blog?
Desider,
I’ve got a hunch that “jeanba’s” vote wasn’t exactly in the bag for Clinton before that (admittedly disturbing) set of blog posts either.
pacc wins when you respond to his mean-spirited, divisive, dihonest posts. He's the perfect example of the Hillary Clinton Campaign and strategy.
IGNORE PACC. He will soon go away, like Hillary.
oleeb wrote on December 21, 2007 11:48 PM:
"It's truly astounding how uniformly obnoxious and robotic the Hillary shills are. They are mean, nasty and bitterly hateful toward every and anyone."
This is some kind of joke, right?
I'm not a Democrat and I support Hillary Clinton.
Anti-Clinton Democrats make me feel like shit for supporting Clinton. In fact, I've seriously never heard such nasty stuff in politics, as what I've heard Democrats say about a fellow Democrat, Hillary Clinton.
In fact, one of the zillion reason I support her is to stick it to Clinton Haters, because they have got to be singularly the most petty and NASTIEST people on the planet.
Michael A wrote on December 22, 2007 9:35 AM:No its not a joke jan. You clinton II lovers do and say the same thing over and over and over and over again. I guess you have nothing to work with. The reason why people against clinton II sometimes seem to be over the top is because its in response to the clinton II attack tactics. I'm not saying its right, its human nature and I am as guilty as the rest. When I first started messing around on this site, my posts were a heck of alot tamer then they are now and its after months and months of garbage being strewn at me. I try to tone it down and then bang I find that I am over the top again. Bottom line, you gals/guys have caused the discourse to degrade because people are not interested in blindly following your fearless leader. That's not america.
And, by the way I'm not even a democrat, I'm a, uh, member of the left-wing, uninformed, commie, pinko, wacko, loonie, naderite, etc. party.
yesterday gone wrote on December 22, 2007 9:45 AM:emily's list has funded republican congresswomen who have worked to block progressive healthcare reform.
yesterday gone wrote on December 22, 2007 9:49 AM:Jan wrote on December 22, 2007 7:02 AM: In fact, one of the zillion reason I support her is to stick it to Clinton Haters, because they have got to be singularly the most petty and NASTIEST people on the planet.
obama supporters never compared hillary to feces who needs to be flushed down the toilet - something obama has been characterized as by hillary supporters.
DemAC wrote on December 22, 2007 10:02 AM:Michael A wrote: And, by the way I'm not even a democrat, I'm a, uh, member of the left-wing, uninformed, commie, pinko, wacko, loonie, naderite, etc. party.Oh my! Who could’ve guessed that? What a shocker. DemAC wrote on December 22, 2007 10:04 AM:
yesterday gone wrote: emily's list has funded republican congresswomen who have worked to block progressive healthcare reform.Umm… no they haven’t. Michael A wrote on December 22, 2007 10:12 AM:
Well, at least you got your sense of humor back for a split second demac.
Greg DeLassus wrote on December 22, 2007 11:01 AM:Can't wait till your candidate is defeated. Then we will purge your from out party, as it should be.
I have never met any real, live, in-the-flesh Hillary Clinton supporters, so I am in no position to confirm this hypothesis, but I am inclined to believe that pacc is somewhat atypical and that most are not neo-Stalinist jerks. With that much in mind, even though I am an Obama supporter, I have to endorse the sentiments at work in Desider's 3:06 a.m. post. No one should vote against a candidate (Clinton, Obama or anyone else) simply because s/he has a set of unhinged supporters on this or that blog.
donna L. wrote on December 22, 2007 11:06 AM:pacc's campaign donations at work:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1207/7518_Page2.html
"...But the Clinton campaign has been sending out a special glossy mailing to expansion voters. On the bottom is a scratch card that says: “Itching for change? Show your support for Hillary. Scratch to win your special limited edition gift.”
When you scratch the card, you find out that you have won a travel mug. You mail the card in with your address, and the campaign sends you a free mug.
The campaign then follows up with a call, and if it gets a positive response, a volunteer will come knocking on your door.
“The idea isn’t to find out who wants a free mug; everyone wants a free mug,” a Clinton staffer said. “The idea is to see who is favorable to Hillary Clinton so we can begin a conversation with them.”
This is obviously a very expensive way to start a conversation and get a vote."
Keep calling out pacc. His/her? one-note commentary "O-Bomb-A" -- is a racist play on the muslim/terrorist smear.
And we all know where that one started.
Decider,
I was a Hillary supporters so was my wife, but when this Shaheen thing started coming with Kerry and all these nonsense attacks on Obama we realized that this was going too far! Reading all these blogs (ex. PACC's)showed that some ignorant people really can buy into lies like the ones from Shaheen or Kerry, both Clinton supporters. So my wife and I have decided to not vote for Hillary either primary or general, we will still vote for any other democrat if wins election. But if Hillary wins, sorry to say it we won't vote for her. Progressives/liberals used to be better now we sound worse than Karl Rove, what the fuck is happening? No wonder indies are being turned off, look at Shaheen new poll numbers losing to that loser Sununu, one wonder if it is correlated to recent Shaheen's husband meme against Obama!
yesterday gone wrote on December 22, 2007 11:51 AM:DemAC wrote on December 22, 2007 10:04 AM:
yesterday gone wrote: emily's list has funded republican congresswomen who have worked to block progressive healthcare reform.
Umm… no they haven’t.
you are right, DEMac, my mistake. i was thinking of NARAL who endorsed republican congresswoman nancy johnson. who is nancy johnson? from democracy now:
Nancy Johnson has been the single most influential member of her party in Washington on healthcare for the quarter century that she sat in Congress. She chairs the Subcommittee on Healthcare at Ways and Means. And it would actually—if you were to simply say, “Who is the living American who has most given us this debacle of a health system?” it’s hard to imagine who, other than Nancy Johnson, you would suggest for that honor.
oleeb wrote:
"It's truly astounding how uniformly obnoxious and robotic the Hillary shills are..."
I'd agree with this if you replace "Hillary" with "Obama/Edwards"
And hopefully if I were an Obama/Edwards shill, the below would not be my position. I would vote for HRC before I voted for another republican president. As a dem I'd have a hell of lot more success changing the policy of the president if I'm in the same party. See the last 7 years for examples.
"But frankly, I'd rather see a genuine Republican win than vote for Hillary and Kool Aid squad... So, vote for Hillary? Over my dead body."
Desider wrote on December 22, 2007 12:31 PM:Jeanba,
Considering Shaheen was pushed out as were 2 involved with the emails, it's hard to imagine what lily-white campaign you would drift to. One of Obama's early claims was that Hillary is unelectable because of all the lies people told about her. I suppose it's unfair of her to question Obama as to just what kind of issues will come up with him. Oh no, he's above the fray, no one would do that. Remembering right wing attacks on McCain (hearing voices?), Cleland (blew off his own legs going to a kegger?), Kerry (faked all his war medals to get home to be a traitor), Harold Ford (call me?), Gore (where do I start)...., you're really stretching it if you think that this last month was nasty politics. Hillary apologized. No one in the GOP ever did that.
