Clinton Disses Kossacks

[illinoisprogressive]

In a surprise announcement Thursday night, organizers of the Yearlykos netroots convention say Hillary Clinton has canceled her scheduled meeting with attendees on Saturday. Clinton is still scheduled to appear with other presidential candidates at the convention's leadership forum, but she will be the only candidate skipping the meetings with activists afterward. In a last minute change, organizers said the Clinton Campaign would send Ann Lewis to speak with attendees on Clinton's behalf

The announcement, made just after Howard Dean's keynote address, drew boos and immediate complaints from attendees, who were asked to select which candidate they wanted to meet with during registration this morning. It also comes at an odd time for Clinton's netroots outreach strategy, since her campaign recently sent top spokesman Howard Wolfson to defend the convention against attacks from FOX's Bill O'Reilly. DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas praised that effort earlier today, telling reporters at a the convention's opening news conference that he appreciated Clinton's effort to "defend the medium" from "right wing attacks." Moulitsas also said he thought Clinton had started to demonstrate that she would "listen" to the netroots "when making her decisions."

Meanwhile, Senator Chris Dodd picked up where the Clinton Campaign left off, battling Bill O'Reilly on his Thursday show to defend YearlyKos.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ari-melber/hillary-folds-as-yearlyko_b_58978.html


this was blogged by a Kossack who was going to attend Hillary's break out session:

When we showed up at registration for YK 07 (awesome, by the way - wish you were here) we had to choose whose breakout session we wanted to go to, and get a colored wristband to allow us access: yellow for Hillary, orange for Obama, etc.

Well, my mom and I, we're not Hillary supporters. We're not really supporting anyone at this stage - we're foolishly hoping for Gore, but listening respectfully to everyone else. And neither one of us really wanted to end up in the Hillary camp.

But here's the thing. She's kickin' ass. Her campaign is a machine, and she's really showing she knows her stuff in the debates

http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/8/2/22048/43933

[Cha]

1. So ..go

figure?

[Pirate Smile]

2. O'Reilly will take credit for it.

edit to add:

Wait - she is going, she just isn't staying the extra 45 minutes - "Hillary Clinton, while able to attend the Leadership Forum, can't stay an extra 45 minutes and meet us face to face for her breakout session."

[Dogmudgeon]

3. That's a "diss"?

I thought a "diss" was something like making disparaging remarks or misrepresenting someone.

--p!

[bluedog]

4. Senator Clinton Did Not Jilt Kossacks

from KOS site...........



Senator Clinton Did Not Jilt Kossacks

Thu Aug 02, 2007 at 10:06:25 PM PDT
Senator Clinton's campaign (and in fact those of every candidate participating) have been incredibly flexible and helpful in putting together this Presidential forum. Saturday is going to be an amazing day.

In the weeks leading up to the convention we worked with her campaign and the campaigns of EVERY candidate participating to accommodate a diverse array of scheduling and other concerns.

Yearlykos wholeheartedly disagrees with the sentiments expressed in the diary entitled "Effing Hillary Jilts Kossacks."

There was a miscommunication between Yearlykos and Senator Clinton’s Campaign, which was never under the impression that Senator Clinton would be attending the breakout session due to a scheduling conflict.

We regret due to this miscommunication, the announcement was made so belatedly.


We are ecstatic she will be attending the forum and that Anne Lewis will be representing her in the breakout session.

[wyldwolf]

5. suddenly, bubble burst on DU