Obama Strikes Fundraising Deal with D.N.C.
EmailABC News’ Teddy Davis Reports: To help boost the Democratic Party’s coffers, Sen. Barack Obama’s, D-Ill., campaign and the Democratic National Committee (D.N.C.) are establishing a “joint fundraising agreement" which can raise up to $28,500 from individuals, most of which would go to the DNC.
"In regards to the D.N.C. and the joint fundraising agreement, it is something that we are moving forward with," said Obama deputy campaign manager Steve Hildebrand on a Friday conference call with reporters. "As we understand it, the D.N.C. has initiated those conversations with the Clinton campaign as well."
Hildebrand made his comments when asked about a report appearing on "The Page," the Time.com political website powered by Mark Halperin, Randy James, and Katie Rooney.
An adviser to Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., tells ABC News that the D.N.C. and the Clinton campaign have discussed a joint fundraising agreement.
The Clinton adviser notes, however, that the D.N.C. is further down the road with Obama.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the presumptive Republican nominee for president, has already formed such an alliance with the Republican National Committee (R.N.C.).
The McCain-RNC committee — called Victory — was created in March after the Arizona senator secured the GOP presidential nod.
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Obama wants to cozy up to the DNC and his pal, Howie “the scream” Dean. Perhaps he can buy a superdelegate or two in the process.
Posted by: Emily | April 25, 2008, 2:03 pm 2:03 pm
Dean betta be Careful if he’s thinking about doin so Co-Fund Raising with Hills. As broke as she is, she may try to pick his pockets.
Posted by: The Commander Guy | April 25, 2008, 2:12 pm 2:12 pm
Also, Obama’s campaign is going to have a conference call to unveil their MASSIVE voter registration drive that they will be implementing.
Posted by: Stacey | April 25, 2008, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm
Obama thinks he can buy the election? he can buy the nomination, but the DNC will pay, and pay big for it.
Posted by: geevill | April 25, 2008, 2:37 pm 2:37 pm
DNC support and superdelegates–bought and paid for by Obama.
Posted by: qysj | April 25, 2008, 2:38 pm 2:38 pm
Poor ol TomDavie. Hills herself has said there ain’t much difference in her positions from Obama’s positions. She’s even said that it would be foolish to vote for McCain instead of the Dem Nominee.
Fact O the Matter is that Hillary lost the campaign in February. She was out worked and out planned.
Posted by: The Commander Guy | April 25, 2008, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm
WOW, what is he doing buying the nomination now? This should sure make a lot of democrats think, it will not be their votes that will count anymore, it will be how much money Obama has to give the DNC.
Posted by: SJ | April 25, 2008, 2:57 pm 2:57 pm
I have no problem once the DNC has a nominee of them having some kind of fund agreement, but at this stage it sure does not look fair to Hillary, am sure if this was done to Obama the talk would be Hillary is buying the nomination.
This stinks and democrats should not go for this it look rather underhanded, and make a mockery of the election process.
Posted by: SJ | April 25, 2008, 3:09 pm 3:09 pm
Just saw one of the Clinton “Hillraisers” who raised more than a half million has publicly defected to Obama. The reason he cited was concern over the Clinton campaign’s tone, and the effect on the party it could have in the fall.
Posted by: Paul | April 25, 2008, 3:15 pm 3:15 pm
Hey guys , they are talking to Hillary also but it take a little longer with her. She has a hard time compromising…
Posted by: cindyct | April 25, 2008, 3:16 pm 3:16 pm
SJ – the nomination process is distinct from the election process. All of these primaries and caucuses are internal events, and not subject to many public laws outside of FEC finance regulations. Any party could, as they all once did, simply get a group of insiders together in a smoke filled room, and pick a candidate out of a hat.
That said, the nomination process is practically over, and has been since the Virginia primary. I believe that’s where Obama all but nailed it down; others believe it was in Wisconsin.
This is based on the view that it would take a bizarre series of events under which super delegates could collectively pick someone other than the leader in pledged delegates and not tear the party apart.
Regarding fundraising cooperation, the DNC recognizes the advantages the GOP enjoys by having a presumptive nominee, and thus tried to establish these agreements with both the Obama and Clinton campaigns. If I’m reading between the lines correctly, the Obama campaign was able to respond more efficiently to set something up.
Posted by: Paul | April 25, 2008, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm
people are funny..lol
obama is buying the democratic party..hahaha
hillpac baby hillary has been doing it for years…. the democratic party is no different than any other club they raise money from with in for the party… how did i know some people would act like this is some new conspiracy that is being done and push it on obama as being crooked…
it cant be held against anyone they all do it..
Posted by: melissa | April 25, 2008, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm
Does anyone else just fly by the long cut and paste posts submitted by Hillary fans? They are all the same and usually always full of misspelled words. And, I have to say, always full of Black Black Black Black! It’s like a contest to see how many times Black and Racist can be put in a post. I am a middle aged white woman and I assure you I vote for Obama because I listened to his ideas. I checked his background and I am smart enough to know guilt by association only works if the guy took millions from them like both Clintons have and do. To have her brothers be paid for Bill Clinton to pardon 2 convicted Weathermen (women) and then have the nerve to try to smear Obama with working in a nonprofit board advisory position with Avery is the exact things that makes her unelectable. If you listen to any of her speeches now if she isn’t slamming Obama she is saying the exact thing he said first. SHAME on Hillary for putting us through this. Her lies sunk her. Not Obama, the media, or blacks. She did it to herself.
Posted by: Workman3344 | April 25, 2008, 4:17 pm 4:17 pm
There’s never been any love lost between the Clintons and official Washington. The Georgetown dinner parties they rarely attended during the Bill years might as well be in Outer Mongolia for all President Hillary will care. Notables who abandoned her for Obama will get the Big Chill. “He’s dead to us,” a Clinton aide was quoted saying of John Kerry, who along with Ted Kennedy was turned off by the perception of race baiting that led up to the South Carolina primary. A major donor, conflicted between the two candidates and apologetic over his backing of Obama, found Hillary less than sympathetic. “Too bad for you, because I’m going to win,” she snapped
Posted by: melissa | April 25, 2008, 4:27 pm 4:27 pm
i think this is why super delegates are worried about jumping on the obama boat too soon, if she does manage to take the white house they will have to pay for backing him!!!
Posted by: melissa | April 25, 2008, 4:28 pm 4:28 pm
Now Obama will try to buy off the DNC with donor money. But I still wonder were all that money really come from. What happen to the pledge Obama sign with McCain to only take federal campaign money if he is the nominee?
Posted by: jp,michigan | April 25, 2008, 4:31 pm 4:31 pm
Is the DNC broke or what no funds from long time democrats.
Posted by: Bishop | April 25, 2008, 4:38 pm 4:38 pm
Mrs. Clinton has no chance left to become the nominee for the Democratic party. All that she and her supporters are now doing are dividing the party and handing the nomination to the Republicans. If she were not selfish, she would withdraw.
Posted by: PJudice | April 25, 2008, 5:05 pm 5:05 pm
Mrs. Clinton has no chance left to become the nominee for the Democratic party. All that she and her supporters are now doing are dividing the party and handing the presidency to the Republicans. If she were not selfish, she would withdraw.
Posted by: PJudice | April 25, 2008, 5:06 pm 5:06 pm
Considering that the DNC has only 5 million to the RNC 31 million. Obama is making the point that he can lead the party forward. Clinton being broke can’t do much. What is cute is a major fund raiser for the Clinton Campaign switched to the Obama Campaign today.
Obama also announced a 50 state voter registration Campaign for the GE.
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Posted by: Thinking | April 25, 2008, 5:07 pm 5:07 pm
Geevil.
I agree.
See,,,how elitist he is.
Posted by: crisis08 | April 25, 2008, 5:09 pm 5:09 pm
As proven in Ohio, Texas and Penn., Obama’s tons of money doesn’t matter anymore. Only a few people now are buying his baloney and snake oil.
Who wants a wimp as their POTUS. In the event the N korean or Iranian President wants to debate with him or there’s a 3am call scenario. Obama might probably run to a Diner and say “can I eat my waffles first.”
Posted by: Joshua | April 25, 2008, 5:13 pm 5:13 pm
I think there should be no money involve for DNC from every candidate campaign.
Why Obama offered first?
Posted by: crisis08 | April 25, 2008, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm
Melissa,
I think so.
Posted by: crisis08 | April 25, 2008, 5:19 pm 5:19 pm
Who knows what he did to those superdelegates had endorsed him.
DNC not suppose to treat their children differently.
Posted by: crisis08 | April 25, 2008, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm
Posted by: jp,michigan: “But I still wonder were all that money really come from…..”
You are not alone JP. A lot of people are wondering the same thing.
Canada Free Press has a two part story at their web site raising some interesting questions regarding Senator Obama’s fundraising.
Posted by: TexasLJ | April 25, 2008, 5:53 pm 5:53 pm
Well now isn’t this special!!!
I hope it seals the deal for you Barry.
I will never give another dime to the DNC.
I will make my donation to Hillary again this week.
Posted by: HP Boston | April 26, 2008, 9:38 am 9:38 am
I will also contribute to Hillary’s campaign……it’s going to be a sad day for America when we elect McCain in the GE
I don’t believe OBAMA can win the GE.
I for one find something just a little wrong here. Also, all the Obama Supporters(especially the 20 – 35 age group) seem to think they have all the answers in this election.
Us Seniors who haven’t voted for him as much as for Clinton, can’t possible know what we are thinking. We Must BE Senile….to not vote for the ALMIGHTY OBAMA, WHO IS GOING TO WAVE A MAGIC WAND AND ALL OUR TROUBLES WILL BE OVER.
Posted by: Jan | April 26, 2008, 11:20 am 11:20 am
Wow, Obama’s pitching in for the home team! Good job.
Here’s a telling distinction between the two campaigns:
Obama launches aggressive voter registration drives in each state he campaigns in. When Clinton was asked if she was going to do the same, she answered that was not the typical way campaigns are run.
Posted by: Karen | April 27, 2008, 3:36 am 3:36 am
I’ve come up with my own solution to the divisive fighting going on within the Democratic Party. If Hillary Clinton does not steal the Democratic nomination (and I pray for all our sake that she does not) She, her husband and the increasingly rabid supporters that are behind her should form their own party. Seriously. They can call themselves the Clintoncrats or the Splintercrats or something, how about the Bite Backs. I think she has done her service to our hopeful Democratic nominee by toughening him up ahead of his fight against the Republican onslaught that will come during the general election. After her kitchen sink strategy I don’t see either of the Clintons or their supporters tempering their rancor and joining hands with their fellow Democrats behind President Obama. All that anger, all that energy, all that EGO is going to need a creative outlet and former President Bill Clinton is still going to want to ensure his legacy. My message to the Clintons and the Clinton supporters (if you can not truly get behind the person who is likely to be one of this nation’s most incredible Presidents) – build a new party (and take James Carville with you).
Posted by: Theolonius | April 27, 2008, 3:44 am 3:44 am
Obama doesn’t need the DNC, they need him. He is averaging 30M per month over the last 3 months just for the Democratic primary. Racists ought to really get with Obama’s greatness and let go of the ficticious comments and judgemental comments. He is the future of the Democratic Party!!!!1
Posted by: Mike | April 27, 2008, 6:07 pm 6:07 pm
But the fact is, I am a 50 year old woman who works as a nurse and I don’t have much time to sit there and memorize everything he’s done in the Senate, although I’ve heard even Bush has followed some of his foreign policy recommendations recently. I’ve heard that his health programs and fair trade not free trade is what’s best for American are not bad either. I’ll get around to them eventually and memorize them so I can be ready when people ask me why I believe in him.
But the fact remains, I believe in him because I believe in myself. The fact remains, I trust that man with my whole heart and soul. What makes a good President is not experience, not whether one was born with a silver or tattered spoon in one’s mouth. Not a large bank account or connections to influential people.
What matters is one’s heart. One’s character honor and integrity is what’s most important. Knowing that for one to win, all must win. An American President must represent everyone’s beliefs, not just one’s personal beliefs or one’s party’s beliefs. A larger umbrella of beliefs must cover the prominent ones as well as insignificant ones.
He may not even realize it but he has won. He may not win the Presidential candidacy, but he has won the hearts of the American people. He has joined us together across the nation.
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People who are not citizens cannot donate to a politician’s campaign. But how did the Clinton’s get away with it? And on more than one occasion including when Prez. Clinton gave secrets to China for petesakes in exchange for campaign financing for his reelection.
Hilary has Sandy Berger as her advisor but his national security clearance is suspended due to him stealing highly classified terrorism documents from the National Archives, destroyed them and lied to investigators.
http://www.examiner.com/a-977346~He_s_back__Sandy_Berger_now_advising_Hillary_Clinton.html
Clinton Administration Destroyed Documents Involving Illegal Scheme to Sell Taxpayer-Funded Trade Missions for Campaign Contributions:
http://www.judicialwatch.org/6092.shtml
And let’s not forget the Peter Paul v. Clinton campaign fund fraud (Penn. Govenor Rendell, then Democratic National Convention head, denies telling Paul not to mention he donated the campaign money. The judge who threw it out of court was APPOINTED by Clinton, but it is now in a civil court in Los Angeles (hearing was held off until April 25, 2008 AFTER the Penn. primary:
http://www.paulvclinton.com/pp_complaint_022504_njw.pdf
oh and the 140 pardons (including terrorists!!) including giving his brother a pardon for distributing cocaine!!and 36 sentence commutations Clinton gave when he was leaving office in a quid pro quo for campaign funds for his wife and millions for his Presidential Library that he uses as a front for his money. Do NOT let the Clinton’s fool you! They have lots and lots of money. They just can’t use it because it’s tainted money and illegally obtained.
Marc Rich (Denise Rich’s ex husband) is a billionare. He was for many years one of America’s Most Wanted. But in order for Clinton to get him a pardon Prez. Clinton failed to tell the powers that be (attorneys in the Justice Dept) that Rich was a fugitive and had fled America (Clinton said he was ‘living abroad’) because of tax evasion and was buying and selling oil from Iran etc. when there was an American embargo against the Middle East. He made lots and lots of money by trading with America’s worst enemies. He renounced and denounced his American citizenship. He defrauded the American Government, and Clinton gave him a pardon. Clinton received over a million dollars from Denise Rich for his Presidential Library. Clinton allegedly has $$ in a bank in the Panama. Not surprising seeing as he ‘looked the other way’ when he was govenor when many of his friends were trading guns for drugs in Columbia. No WONDER he wants free trade in Columbia. No wonder he got rid of drug testing in the White House once he became President. His brother did coke and said Prez. Clinton had a nose like a Hoover (vacuum cleaner).
Oh and then there’s all those dirty little secrets like all the suicides that were murders. It’s amazing how many people ready to testify against the Clintons committed ‘suicide’ and shot themselves execution-style, including a 7 1/2 month pregnant woman said to be having an affair with Clinton when he was a law professor.
Just Ron Brown alone. (Read the book, “Ron Brown’s Body-How One Man’s Death Saved the Clinton Presidency and Hilary’s Future…by Jack Cashill”).
Oh and then there’s his two friends when he was a draft dodger who supposedly killed themselves. Oh yeah and Vincent Foster, and at least 25 people committed suicide or got killed in plane crashes….so many plane crashes. More people died in plane crashes who knew too much and committed ‘suicide’ under Clinton than in any other Presidency.
I could go on and on and on. You can believe any of this or none of it. I tell you, SEEK THE TRUTH! Look any of this up.
Posted by: usyankee | April 27, 2008, 11:55 pm 11:55 pm