PLANET HILLARY ESTIMATES 2016 SPENDING: $1.7 BILLION Time: “There is now talk among Ready officials about finishing 2014 with 5 million supporters and 2 million active volunteers, numbers that would likely dwarf the assets of all the GOP wannabes combined. If realized, that would be substantially more than the piddling grassroots effort that Clinton mounted against Obama six years ago. Could anyone, Democrat or Republican, catch the Clinton machine this time? ‘I don’t know,’ [Craig Smith, a longtime Clinton insider now helping lead the Hillary Clinton political action group] says. ‘I think it takes a long time to build a grassroots operation. These things don’t pop up overnight.’ Indeed, they do not, and there is little that is spontaneous about this one. Smith estimates that the entire Clinton effort — including all the current super PAC projects and an actual campaign — will cost a cool $1.7 billion in total. That back-of-the-envelope calculation is based on his observation that in each presidential campaign the victor ends up spending about 150% of what the winner spent four years before.” [BuzzFeed: “The advance work of groups like Ready for Hillary — and Priorities USA Action, the party’s largest super PAC — might hurt Clinton’s standing if they are seen as unhelpful in a year Democrats risk losing control of the Senate.] Scandal shadows creep in - Washington Free Beacon: A nonprofit group believed to be the League of United Latino American Citizens (LULAC) used illegal corporate contributions to secretly aid Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign, according to federal court documents. Democratic donor and District of Columbia businessman Jeffrey Thompson pleaded guilty on Monday to funneling millions in illegal donations to local and federal candidates, including Clinton in 2008. Thompson said in his plea agreement that he financed a $600,000 “shadow campaign” for Clinton using funds from his D.C.-based for-profit corporation D.C. Healthcare Systems Inc. [WaPo’s Sean Sullivan examines how campaigns use YouTube to skirt restrictions on coordinating with outside groups.]
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:11:31 +0000
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