Clinton Campaign Staffers Not Going Without Pay

[killbotfactory]

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.

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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.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4257358&page=1

[gaiilonfong]

1. ANOTHER LIE by the ClintonS

They are disgusting and rotten to the core.
Fooling their supporters who are putting money into her campaign JUST to pay back her 5 million

Whaddya gonna do NOW Clintonistas, now that she lied to you????

[rodeodance]

3. What is the lie?

[grantcart]

14. They do this a couple more times and Obama will be sittiing on a fortune

[mtnsnake]

20. Only a disgusting & rotten to the core moron would ever call Clintons what you did

This place sounds more like a rightwing message board every day. Jayeesus

[avrdream]

23. As if YOUR word means anything to us Clintonistas.

Get a grip.

Nobody here is changing anybody else's vote by being ugly.

[rinsd]

2. LOL, could the Clinton campaign be playing dead?

[JackORoses]

10. you know how deceitful they are. how can you support this? It is so Bushlike.

[rinsd]

11. Oh please spare me.

This is similar to playing the lower expectations games or claiming the other guy is the frontrunner.

Is this your 1st election?

[JackORoses]

19. I'm sick of Clinton Politics. They don't care if People make decisions based on the Truth.

They only care that People decide in their favor.
This is exactly what Bush does.
Who cares if it's true, will it work?

I, for one, am ready for a Leader who speaks the Truth.
Who doesn't see us as sheep to be herded, but as peers to be informed.

Hillary Clinton is not this leader. She is too immersed in the 'Ends Justify the Means/It's only cheating if you get caught' school of thought.

[Avalux]

4. Rovian politics. Makes me feel like I need to take a shower.

It sure was a big stunt to give the perception Hillary is the underdog. I know it's politics, but she really plays it dirty.

[rodeodance]

7. Please do---and go poop on another thread. We are celebrating here.

[Avalux]

8. Sorry, you don't get to decide where I post. n/t

[rodeodance]

9. know i do not.

[spin]

13. If Hillary takes the low road and Obama the high road,

She MIGHT become the Democratic candidate but the black vote might not turn out in the general election.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

5. i love when speculation is presented as fact.

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."

:eyes:

[Debi]

6. Ha, Okay...we raised enough for everyone to be paid this month

x( Don't worry about next month...

How about firing the people that got her into this cash crunch in the first place rather than giving them MORE money?

[Tellurian]

22. Is it still snowing in Iowa?

[Azathoth]

12. So Hillary pulled a stunt to look like the underdog, and Obama still outraised her

:rofl:

[H2O Man]

15. The Clinton campaign

resorts to manipulative tactics, because the Obama campaign was getting so much more in donations.

[Tellurian]

21. Oh STOP, you don't know that for a fact..

don't lower yourself to the anklebiters around here trying to make something out of nothing and drawing you into their cesspool of Hate! Not good karma!

[Bread and Circus]

16. haha, that's funny because people said people were just donating to Mark Penn...

and his blackwater project and his union busting.

They were right it seems.

[northzax]

17. how odd

a couple of unnamed sources tell Time that the campaign is broke, and the campaign says "uh, no we aren't, right now" and everyone believes TIME.

can anyone tell me the source of the "going without pay" story? this one, attributed, says they offered, but were told not to work for free.

[loveangelc]

18. w/e if they even offered to do this, it tells us something...