Election Doesn’t Shutter Clinton Campaign Offices

[Herman Munster]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/11/nyregion/11hillary.html

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s re-election race may be over, but she is hardly closing up her campaign shop or worrying about deep debts.

Advisers to Mrs. Clinton say she has more than $10 million left in her political bank account, not to mention a priceless reservoir of speeches, issue research, and financial networks nationally for any future use.

Her advisers also say that she does not intend to disassemble her campaign apparatus and staff, as many candidates do when an election ends, nor does she plan to immediately close her New York City and Washington campaign offices.

Indeed, the Clinton camp has spent months building a re-election team that could easily shift into gear for a 2008 presidential bid. Fresh from her landslide victory, and with a fistful of I.O.U.’s from winning Democratic candidates nationally, Mrs. Clinton is comfortably positioned as she prepares to enter an important period of strategy talks, reading and reflection while deciding whether to run.

[Kagemusha]

1. ...While deciding whether to run?

:rofl:

[Diane R]

2. Did she donate any of her money to other democrats?

I know I got letters of solicitation from her, but she was sitting on a huge war chest of her own. Did she share any of it, like Kerry did?

[Kagemusha]

3. She spent this huge crazy amount on her own re-election

to get up to a gaudy 67% margin to catapult her to higher callings.

Having said that, at least she WAS up for re-election, unlike Kerry, Bayh... no idea if she managed to give any to other candidates but, she has her excuse.

[juajen]

4. On another thread

it was stated that she gave at least 3 million dollars to other candidates, and that she also campaigned heavily for other candidates, helping them raise untold amounts of money.

Confucius say "Slaying mother dragon when no other mother in sight very foolish".

[sandnsea]

5. Kerry raised $14 million

for 260 candidates and campaigned in 43 states. 29 candidates that were specifically targeted by the netroots, won. Nobody did more than John Kerry in this election.

[Kagemusha]

6. He did a lot for himself too.

I'm not unhappy with what Kerry did. But before nominating him for sainthood, people still saw him hoard a lot of money for himself when he wasn't up for election and when a unique opportunity presented itself. (As it turns out, the "unique opportunity" prediction was correct.) So in that sense, at the time when the criticism was high, perhaps he could have done even more. And on a small scale, he did.

I dont' know what Bayh did but he was mentioned as a really bad offender, acting like he owed the party none of his own war chest at all. Perhaps like Kerry, he felt like he owed others, other people's money. It's certainly a hell of a lot different from sitting on your hands but, as I said, I'm not sure about nominating Kerry for sainthood here. The purpose of the original criticism was not to beat up on Kerry as a bad person! It was to get cash where the cash was needed most in critical races which were decided by VERY thin margins.

At any rate, the Democratic party squeaked by and there's little point in pointing accusing fingers. I'm going to mention here rather than take up more bandwidth that I see the other poster say Hillary donated $3 mil out of her heavy expenditures (she spent 10 times that on her own race). Can't call that unfair.