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Subscribe to RSSFormer Kerry campaign manager and longtime head of EMILY’s List, Mary Beth Cahill, is joining Priorities USA, the Obama-endorsed SuperPAC.
The first time outside groups played an outsized role in a presidential campaign was in 2004, the year Cahill ran Kerry’s campaign. Kerry got a big assist that year from a slew of outside Democratic groups, including the largest one known as Americans Coming Together (ACT).
It is that experience, knowing what outside groups do well and not so well, that is supposed to make her a valuable asset to the SuperPAC that is still struggling to match the power of the big Republican SuperPACs.
“Mary Beth brings an enormous wealth of experience in national campaigns and we couldn’t be happier that she’s joining us," said Priorities USA co-founder Bill Burton. "As the election draws closer, her expertise in strategy and targeting will be invaluable in ensuring the President’s reelection.”
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The more the expertise the merrier I say...
Welcome Mary Beth to Team Blue!
Bill Burton know talent when he sees it!
So Super PACS funded by Big Cororations and Big Unions are great, if they are Democratic?
Feisty, please forgive me, but I am starting to conclude you are, gulp, partisan.
Since you regularly feign outrage at the evil influence of "money"...
Bob---we liberals don't like the influence of money and Super PACs, especially with the risks of foreign influence, but since the Supreme Court has ruled in the Citizens United case, we are playing the hand of cards we've been dealt. And if you think the Democrats will have as much Super PAC money as the Republicans, you've been probed once too often.
In Wisconsin, Democrats proposed a bill banning all money from outside of the state. Republicans have refused to allow a vote on the bill. Clearly Republicans are bought and paid for by outside money.
Republicans fear that such legislation would catch on and become law in every single state.
Steeler - actually, I think the Democrats will have MORE money than the GOP and, since we gotta play by their rules, that's fine with me!
@ Debbie -- Of course, they're against it. Outside money is running about 20-1 in Walker's favor right now.
Steeler Fan,
Thanks for your comment #1.2 above - you covered it beautifully! ☺
This is one of the many things I don't get about the rightwing. These multinational companies have shareholders from all over the world. Aside from some, like Exxon Mobil having larger budgets than many nation states, these companies answer to no one but their own profit and greed. Even Sugar Daddies -- the most recent on FAUX News, Frank Vandersloot, what a lying POS he is -- have more influence than the measly "one man one vote" premise of our republic form of democracy. And yet rightwingers are all for "the ends justify the means" mentality. Really? You would forsake our constitutional democracy if you think it will help plutocrats like Romney rule the world? Seriously?
This is the case in Montana too -- Stand with Montana in fight against corporate personhood -- http://www.standwithmontanans.org/mattleow/stand_with_montana_in_fight_against_corporate_personhood
There are Americans who know their history, and know what the mining company-owned towns were like, and heck people like Frank Vandersloot in Idaho is like.
Feisty,
How many corporations can you fit into a voting booth?
By passing 'Citizens' United' - the Supreme Court fulfilled a long-time corporate plan to put our Government in the hands of Big Money.
Their decision was anti-democratic, un-democratic and an insult to men, women and children across this nation.
Backhouse,
We just might find out on 11.6.12 if the Koch Brothers, Karl Rove & the rest get their way!
I want to see Dem groups finally take on Romney. Pow! Pow! Pow! Give him the one two punch, like Mitt did to Gingrich and Santorum. I can't wait to see Romney get a taste of his own medicine.
What we need is for the president to get that second term so he can appoint a couple of justices who believe in justice, not corporations. Scalia needs to retire. He has lost all sense of what a democracy is, and is in the pocket of the corporations.
Amen to that.
To all: Good night, it was a good day once again and I must go home to my other Job. Don't fight too much Girls and Boys.
Correct the error in 2012. Romney for President. Give someone else that looks capable the chance to fix the bigger mess left by ex President Obama. I like you my Pres, but you must go.
I agree 100% with you. Back to the White House for 4 more years.
If Obama gets re elected it will be by blacks , new Americans who he brought in to a 8 per cent unemployment economy , and now of course gay rights aka marriages .
Obama killing senior citizens by denying senior treatments for long term chronic condition conditions is going unnoticed by Republicans so I guess they want to kill seniors too. This was a Medicare Benefit before Obama death care . Prescriptions drugs are more expensive under both Bush and Obama then they ever were . Those drug companies have to be paying off big time . Oh , here is an example Allegra D was a generic prescription in the Bush Administration . Whe Obama took office the drugs companies got together and said how can we kill and scam the elderly . Well drug companies just stop making generic Allegra D prescription . Why . Well here it is someone bribed the FDA to call Allegra D an over the counter Drug . To understand this you have to understand that Allega D was controlled prescription before Obama for Medical Reasons and according to the standards of the FDA . So after Obama one of Obama cash men or lackey or fops made those Medical reasons disappear to have the FDA regulate as a prescription drug Allegra D. Obama Please make a speech while American dies , you and Nero are related .
Going back to Vietnam where the song said , Poof the Magic Dragon .
Why was this done well with a prescription under Medicare part D the Allegra D cost about 1/6 to 1/10 of the amount of the drug now being sold over the counter. Senior and my drugs budget costs went off the wall this this one . Obama care should be called obbituary balomy , and I am just starting .
You have prostitute parades and GEO spend on Las Vargas Vacations . Billion dollar planes being made we don't need , and all kind of money drained all over the world because to be elected Pres or even a Congressman is according to one of the great clown of our time are offices beyond the law , R Nixon.
Ahh and the "group" continues the pat on the back strategy for their brilliance. You libs. What a bunch...... of BS,
As of the end of March, Obama's campaign has $196,900,097. Romney's had only $87,452,399.
The candidates who raise the least money are disadvantaged when it comes to getting their message out. I think we should "tax" the richest campaigns at a very high rate and redistribute their wealth to the poorest ones. That way they all will have equal access to the media.
That is the way our tax system works. Why should politicians be exempt from the same concept of “fairness” that afflicts all other American citizens?