Hillary's Fat-cat Hollywood Moguls Can't Stop Fretting: “It is something everyone is talking about”

[99th_Monkey]

Hillary Clinton's big donors in California have found all sorts of reasons to be nervous
By EVAN HALPER AND MELANIE MASON * Sept. 25, 2015 * LA Times

During a month in which some of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s biggest donors fretted, obsessed over and second-guessed her campaign, it wasn’t Clinton’s big policy speeches on healthcare or her vow to block the Keystone XL pipeline that helped ease nerves.

It was her several minutes of banter with “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon.

Such are the mechanics of the Clinton campaign money machine, which is driven in large part by an extremely fickle – some might argue self-important – group of California moguls. Clinton will be back in California on Sunday to collect yet more checks. And one of the toughest challenges she and her advisors face is convincing this crowd of Hollywood executives and other titans of West Coast industry that they’ve got the campaign under control.

Lately, it’s been tough. Rival Bernie Sanders – a self-described socialist – is ahead in New Hampshire. The threat of the charming and formidable Vice President Joe Biden crashing the nominating contest looms. The FBI is investigating Clinton’s email server. It has all amounted to a lot of nail-biting and hand-wringing in the cocktail lounges of Beverly Hills and beach houses of Malibu.

“It is something everyone is talking about,” said one prolific Clinton fundraiser, who asked to remain unidentified for fear of antagonizing the campaign. “Is she going to lose? What is going on? Is Biden running? Is she in trouble? Why is the campaign doing this or that?”

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-clinton-california-donors-20150925-story.html

[CanadaexPat]

1. Rich moderates hope money is enough.

That should be the headline.

[HereSince1628]

7. or cinema bigs hoping for TPP extending copyrights fret

over lack of movement on TPP.

[SamKnause]

2. What happened on Jimmy Fallon?

[99th_Monkey]

3. Hillary had "moments" where she appeared to be witty & authentic. nt

[Motown_Johnny]

4. She didn't vow to block the Keystone XL Pipeline

She made a very narrow and lukewarm statement that she opposes it.

She basically just called it a distraction saying it was keeping us from moving forward on other issues. Once she claims that we are now moving forward on the other issues (whatever those might be) her opposition to it will "evolve". Nothing even slightly resembling a vow to keep it from being built was made.

Sorry if this is off topic but that misstatement is infuriating.



Edit to add:

Bernie is not a "self described socialist"! He is a Democratic Socialist!!!

[99th_Monkey]

6. Well, that's Hillary. I don't trust a word she says, but there was "some movement'

in direction of opposing the pipeline, on the surface, which is as deep as it goes with her.

[BlueWaveDem]

5. Never trust sources who remain anonymous.