SubscribeWas Hillary’s $5M ‘Loan’ A Campaign Stunt?
From the often surprising reporters at ABC News:
Clinton Campaign Staffers Not Going Without Pay
Staff Had Offered to Go Without Pay to Save Campaign Money But Never Did
By KATE SNOW
Feb. 7, 2008 — So it turns out the Clinton campaign may not be so cash-strapped after all at least not at this very moment.
After offering on Wednesday to go without paychecks to help save precious campaign resources, senior staff members on Hillary Clinton’s campaign are in fact not going without pay during the month of February, ABC News has learned.
“It’s not happening,” said a source familiar with the situation.
Clinton’s campaign has been shouting from the rooftops all day about its online fundraising efforts since Super Tuesday.
The campaign announced today that it raised more than four million dollars online in the 24 hours after polls closed on Tuesday the biggest single haul in one day ever for the campaign.
“We are gratified for this tremendous outpouring of support,” said Clinton Campaign Internet Director Peter Daou.
That outpouring is the reason that a handful of senior staff who had offered to go without pay on Wednesday have been told today that they will not need to skip paychecks.
One longtime Democratic consultant not affiliated with any campaign wondered if perhaps the whole thing wasn’t a big stunt to garner media attention and look like an “underdog.”
“I’d take this revelation as a sign that they planned this whole thing,” the consultant said.
The source familiar with the situation also believes Senator Clinton will not need to loan herself any more cash. On Wednesday it was revealed that Hillary Clinton had given her campaign an infusion of $5 million back in January.
Clinton argued today her decision to loan her campaign money should not be seen as a sign that her campaign is in financial trouble.
“We were outraised in January which we took steps immediately to address,” she told ABC News’ Jake Tapper today.
“Since Tuesday we’ve raised millions of dollars on the Internet. So we’re going to be fine. And you know my staff is so dedicated that they stepped up and said we want to do our part. I did my part. But we’re going to be in very good financial shape, people are rallying around. And I think by the end of the week we’re going to be back on track,” she said…
Next they’ll be telling us she wasn’t really crying.
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February 8th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
This picture of Hillary reminds me of what my friends and I would say to imitate the “airhead, clueless, boycrazy girls” mentality. (It wasn’t directed at anyone in particular, just a reflection of how the MSM, etc. portrayed women at the time.) LOL
You have to hunch up your shoulders and spin back and forth, looking down shyly while saying in a baby talk voice: “I’m just a girl. I don’t know how I got here. Will you buy me something”? (In Hillary’s case it would be “Will you donate to my Campaign”.)
Funny, how one picture can say so much. Sorry for the flashback. LOL
February 8th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Sorry to offend, perhaps, but here is my caption, “Nurse Ratchet at the sperm bank saying, ‘I’ll be your fantasy if you want to fill this cup.’”
Sorry, the devil made me say it.
February 8th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
U NO HOO; ‘I’ll be your fantasy…….”
EEEEEEEWWWW!!! ack,ack,ack,ptoo,ptoo
February 8th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
U NO HOO and JohnMG, blame it on SG as he always comes up with these hilarious photos. LOL
February 8th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Well, now mine has gone into hiding and will probably never be seen again.
Thanks, Thanks a whole lot.
February 8th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Damn! “Fantasy” will never have the same meaning to me again. Thanks U No Hoo. LOL
I suppose it’s an appropriate caption, after all, she is wearing a pearl necklace. Rather contradictory for Shrillary however. ;o)
February 8th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
I think we are seeing just what a fine line separates Fantasy from Horrible Nightmare.
February 8th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
cough,cough,cough,gag,wheeze,aughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
February 8th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
I seem to remember reading about a frog that not only throws up when it swallows a bee or wasp, Its entire stomach is expelled inside out and hangs from its mouth.
Thanks to U NO HOO, I know how the frog feels!!!!
February 8th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
I love how Hillary likes to paint herself as just one of the common folk, but dropping $5 million of her own money into a run for President? Not a problem!
Only the left can get away with spouting class warfare while treating a $5,000,000 personal donation to their electoral campaign the same way anyone else would treat the $15 they spent having their résumé copied onto a really nice paper stock at Kinko’s.
February 8th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
” Only the left can get away with spouting class warfare while treating a $5,000,000 personal donation to their electoral campaign the same way anyone else would treat the $15 they spent having their résumé copied onto a really nice paper stock at Kinko’s.”
BillK, Truer words I have never read.