Clinton Donors Worried by Campaign’s Spending -New York Times

[Hart2008]

Nearly $100,000 went for party platters and groceries before the Iowa caucuses, even though the partying mood evaporated quickly. Rooms at the Bellagio luxury hotel in Las Vegas consumed more than $25,000; the Four Seasons, another $5,000. And top consultants collected about $5 million in January, a month of crucial expenses and tough fund-raising.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s latest campaign finance report, published Wednesday night, appeared even to her most stalwart supporters and donors to be a road map of her political and management failings. Several of them, echoing political analysts, expressed concerns that Mrs. Clinton’s spending priorities amounted to costly errors in judgment that have hamstrung her competitiveness against Senator Barack Obama of Illinois.

“We didn’t raise all of this money to keep paying consultants who have pursued basically the wrong strategy for a year now,” said a prominent New York donor. “So much about her campaign needs to change — but it may be too late.”

The high-priced senior consultants to Mrs. Clinton, of New York, have emerged as particular targets of complaints, given that they conceived and executed a political strategy that has thus far proved unsuccessful.

The firm that includes Mark Penn, Mrs. Clinton’s chief strategist and pollster, and his team collected $3.8 million for fees and expenses in January; in total, including what the campaign still owes, the firm has billed more than $10 million for consulting, direct mail and other services, an amount other Democratic strategists who are not affiliated with either campaign called stunning.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/us/politics/22clinton.html?_r=1&ei=5090&en=111901f16e57d179&ex=1361336400&adxnnl=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1203688946-LtGt6kx78aD/udOkuj4Ajw&oref=slogin

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[DJ13]

1. Luxury was a given on the Titanic

[Hart2008]

3. The band played "Lord, with me abide" as she sank.

Has team Hillary started praying yet?

Hillary does go to bible study with Trent Lott, doesn't she?

[ORDagnabbit]

2. If you cant run a campaign you cant run a country...period. end of story.