It's one Hil(lary) of a target! Big fund-raiser in NYC is a step toward 75M goal

[DeepModem Mom]

NY Daily News Exclusive: It's one Hil(lary) of a target!
Big fund-raiser in city is a step toward 75M goal
BY MICHAEL McAULIFF
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

Washington -- Sen. Hillary Clinton is firing up her first major fund-raiser in New York this week, launching a money marathon to underwrite what could be the most expensive presidential campaign ever.

Clinton and husband Bill hit the phones to donors the day the senator declared her 2008 candidacy two weeks ago, aides said, but it will take lots of big-bucks bashes to score the $75 million that Camp Clinton wants to raise this year.

"Both Barack Obama and John Edwards are going to raise a lot of money in this year and this quarter," said Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson, referring to the Illinois senator and the 2004 veep nominee. "We'll do what we can to be competitive."

Inner-circle advisers will meet Wednesday for a strategy consultation. Then the big nets are being thrown in the water Friday.

First, Clinton is holding a closed-door powwow at a Manhattan law office, where would-be "HillRaisers" in Clinton's New York/New Jersey/Connecticut finance committee will be asked to commit to raising a minimum of $25,000 each.

After that, the New York senator will host a "conversation" at tony Cipriani for the "under-45 effort."...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/494811p-416854c.html

[KingofNewOrleans]

1. "We'll do what we can to be competitive"

Oh, please.

[William769]

2. You go Girl!

[Ninja Jordan]

3. BARF

[Just-plain-Kathy]

5. She makes me sick too...

:puke:

She along with her corporate donors...they're taking away our democracy.

Our corporate rightwing media has been labeling Hillary our frontrunner for weeks now. With Terry McAuliffe telling her donors -if they give to Hillary, don't give to anyone else. How will any other candidate get the corporate money Hillary's going to get?

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MONEY WARS. The struggle for the allegiance of big donors is on, especially between Hillary and Obama. There is a new generation of hedge-fund fat cats, and competition is fierce. Terry McAuliffe, the Hillary über-fund-raiser, jovial tell-all author ("What a Party!") and former party chair, makes it clear that he thinks it's a bad idea to give to more than one candidate—though, in fact, it's not all that uncommon. "They don't help themselves if they do," he says, "because they come off as not really being a supporter of anyone". In New York, the issue is moot: Hillary has the town more or less locked up; ditto for Obama in Chicago. Los Angeles, home of the never-quite-concluded deal, is another story. Some major figures (Steven Spielberg, David Geffen) agreed to host a fund-raiser for Obama; now, after some fast footwork by Hillary supporters, Spielberg is cohosting one for Hillary.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16841357/site/newsweek/

[ProSense]

4. You go corporate America! n/t

[here_is_to_hope]

6. In a nutshell, you are right....

Funny to say the "polls" have her ahead yet I know one personally who supports her right now.
Funny, aint it?