Left Group, "PCCC" Plans Meeting with Hillary over Populist Progressive Issues to Counter Warren

[KoKo]

November 12, 2014, 10:40 am
Clinton camp courts progressive groups

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/223834-progressive-group-planning-meeting-with-clinton-camp

By Peter Sullivan

Advisers to Hillary Clinton and a co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) are planning a meeting, according to the group, which is an enthusiastic backer of the ideas of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

Emails obtained by The Hill in September showed the dissatisfaction with Clinton among many liberal activists, and the meeting would be a chance for the leftist group to make its voice heard to the Clinton camp.

PCCC co-founder Adam Green told MSNBC, which first reported the plans for the meeting, that the group talked to Clinton's camp and a meeting is coming "very soon."
He did not say which advisers he is meeting with. He also encouraged other liberal groups to get involved, telling MSNBC, “Individual meetings are useful, but progressive movement-wide meetings would be really smart for her.”

Neil Sroka, spokesman for a different liberal group, Democracy For America, said there had not been "aggressive outreach" from the Clinton camp but left open the possibility of a meeting.

Any meeting, he said, would focus on the question, "Are you going to focus on this fundamental crisis that exists in this country on income inequality?"

Clinton is planning a listening tour in the coming weeks of business, unions and others, according to The New York Times.

The PCCC and other liberal groups could encourage Clinton to increase her populist messaging, similar to Warren.

"Hillary Clinton may be realizing that Elizabeth Warren's economic populist positions are the path to electoral success in 2016," PCCC's Green said in a statement after Clinton praised Warren at an event in Boston last month. "Both in the primary and general election."

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/223834-progressive-group-planning-meeting-with-clinton-camp

[L0oniX]

1. Ah ...lessons on what and how to say shit but not really mean it, that will get you elected.

[Ken Burch]

2. One guy who helped FOUND a left group doesn't equal the group.

Good luck to him, but he's still dealing with a campaign that basically thinks its prospective candidate is simply entitled to the nomination and doesn't think it should actually have to go out and win the nomination for her by taking the primary voters seriously.

[SidDithers]

3. The PCCC exists only to put money into the pockets of its founders...

http://blog.reidreport.com/2011/07/adam-greens-dishonest-fundraising-attack-meets-obamas-adult-debt-conversation/

http://theobamadiary.com/2011/07/15/here-we-go-again-2/

http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/expenditures.php?cmte=C00458000&cycle=2012



More than 50% of all donations to the PCCC go toward the salaries of the PAC executives and employees. Almost 15% goes to Administrative expenses. 10% to "Research" and 8% to Media.

Doesn't leave much for candidates.

Sid

[aspirant]

6. What's behind the curtain?

Thank you very much.I have always had the suspicion that most of these progressive groups were just corporatists, in it for the money. Do you conveniently have the same info on MoveOn,DFA and Vote To Amend? Maybe a wise solution is donating direct to candidates and not giving even a penny to these groups.

[aspirant]

4. Abra cadabra

Are progressive groups coaching her to present progressive speak. A 70 year old traditional progressive doesn't have these words swirling within her heart? You go to school to learn something new, not what you innately know. Is PCCC doing this out of kindness or are we going to see a change in their support of Warren to Clinton?

[KoKo]

5. I don't know...but this is what they are putting out there....

We've been deceived before. We have to hope that somebody gets that we aren't going to be push overs with our votes anymore. But, who knows?

I'm just giving links as to what's going on that is out there that one doesn't see much of on DU from the activist side these days.

[KoKo]

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