[lbo-talk] Hillary's infrastructure

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Dec 22 07:02:03 PST 2007


[from the LAT, as quoted by Mike Allen's Politico Playbook]

Clinton gets lots of help from her friends: More than any other Democratic candidate, she's drawing support from outside organizations - money, direct mailings, even Google ads targeted to female voters in Iowa: Three organizations outside her campaign are lending a big helping hand with ... difficult and expensive tasks, pouring more than $2 million and an army of fresh troops into the last-minute push. The outside effort, much larger than any being mounted on behalf of a rival campaign, is led in large part by EMILY's List, the nation's largest political action committee and a significant force in Democratic politics. Allied with it are the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the American Federation of Teachers. The unions are supporting pro- Clinton radio and television advertising and direct mail contacts with targeted voting groups. Separately, AFSCME has dispatched more than 200 paid workers to Iowa. The fly-in giv es Clinton about twice as many such workers in the state as rival Barack Obama, officials of his campaign say.



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