The Largest Liberal Super PAC Just Formally Aligned Itself With Hillary Clinton

[Cali_Democrat]

By Josh Voorhees

The will-she-or-won't-she narrative has moved one giant, big-dollar step closer to when-will-she. Here's the New York Times with the scoop from the land of Hillary Clinton's (as of yet) undeclared presidential ambitions:

The largest liberal "super PAC" in the country has begun raising money to elect Hillary Rodham Clinton president, formally aligning itself with Mrs. Clinton’s undeclared presidential ambitions more than two years away from the election. The group, Priorities USA Action, which played a pivotal role in helping re-elect President Obama, also named new directors to steer the organization, appointments that will both cement the group’s pro-Clinton tilt and thrust veterans of Mr. Obama’s political and fund-raising operation into the center of the post-Obama Democratic Party.

Jim Messina, Obama's 2012 campaign manager, and former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm will serve as co-chairs of the super PAC and its affiliated nonprofit arm. Granholm has been beating the Clinton '16 drum early and often. Messina, meanwhile, appears to be the big get here. With the announcement he becomes the most high-profile member of Obama's inner circle to openly back Clinton for president, and his new role will "only fuel perceptions that Mrs. Clinton’s potential candidacy has the tacit endorsement of Mr. Obama himself," as the Times' Nicholas Confessore puts it. (Despite the seeming inevitability of a Clinton White House bid, Messina and others are being careful to speak only in hypotheticals when it comes to the campaign. "Priorities is going to be there for her if she decides to run," he told the paper in an interview.)

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/01/23/hillary_2016_priorities_usa_action_the_largest_liberal_super_pac_is_backing.html?wpisrc=burger_bar

[Wilms]

1. Liberal? Try again...

Here are the principles of the organization...

Principals:

Bill Burton (co-founder): Campaign press secretary for Obama in 2008 who was later named White House deputy press secretary.

Sean Sweeney (co-founder): Former chief of staff to Rahm Emanuel, while he served as White House chief of staff.

Harold Ickes (president): Registered lobbyist with strong union ties who was formerly the deputy chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and who served in senior positions in the presidential campaigns of both Bill and Hillary Clinton.

More Third-Way garbage. Who is OK with that?

[Phlem]

2. I thought the same thing.

Liberal?

The worse thing is people will fall for that.

-p

[djean111]

3. Liberal, my ass.

"Priorities USA Action" - yeah, we know about priorities, like the TPP.
This name reminds me of the Koch's "Americans for Prosperity" - of the Koch brothers.

[Wilms]

4. Hillary Thread Fail #...

I've lost track.

[Cali_Democrat]

5. Thread fail?

It's just a highly cited news story I decided to post on DU. I post a lot of different kinds of stories.

I probably won't even support Hillary in the primary.