The candidate's unparalleled fundraising success relies largely on the least-affluent residents of New York's Chinatown -- some of whom can't be tracked down.
By Peter Nicholas and Tom Hamburger
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
October 19 2007
NEW YORK; Something remarkable happened at 44 Henry St., a grimy Chinatown tenement with peeling walls. It also happened nearby at a dimly lighted apartment building with trash bins clustered by the front door.
The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-donors19oct19,0,4231217.story?coll=la-home-center
Showing posts with label Hillary Clinton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hillary Clinton. Show all posts
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Al Gore Nobel Peace Prize, Clinton Iran Vote Fallout, Some see Gore as Dem hope!
Dear Friends of Progressive Government:
It has been a while since I have sent out your e-mails and I apologize but we have had some unfortunate family/friend losses and I am just getting back to my political "secretarial" job that you gave me during the Kerry-Edwards campaign in 2004. Maureen Dowd's column in NY Times on Sunday (written by Stephen Colbert) was very kind of a very telling reentry to politics. Colbert says," I can't remember if I'm supposed to be scared of Hillary so Democrats will think they should nominate her when she’s actually easy to beat, or if I'm supposed to be scared of her because she’s legitimately scary.Or he notes about Rudy Giuliani," I can't remember if I'm supposed to support him because he’s the one who can beat Hillary if she gets nominated, or if I'm supposed to support him because he’s legitimately scary."
Also,on the front page of the NY Times, Week in Review on Sunday there was a lead article by Helen Cooper ,"The Clinton Iran Vote Fallout". Hillary is still voting in favor of the Bush White House's insane suggestions, i.e. the measure that asked the Bush administration to declare Iran's 125,000 member Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization.
This move, "more hawkish than even most of the Bush administration has been willing to venture so far-would intensify America's continuing confrontation with Iran" states the article. It seems this was a vote precipitated by Ms. Clinton's need to guard against critics from the right. She is trying to reassure voters that she would be a tough minded administrator. Well, this doesn't reassure me at all. In fact, as my friend Susan said to me last Saturday, I'd be more impressed with her if she didn't want power so much and acted more like a woman concerned with the lives of soldiers dying in Iraq and bringing about peace. She looks to be (by her vote) supporting a case that could be viewed by many as an attempt by the administration to build a case for war with Iran.
Isn't this the way he started building the case against Iraq ,declaring them the enemy and members of the terrorist regime that attacked us in 9/11. Will we Dems stand by and allow this propaganda to build up again, and allow our leaders to vote for these issues? Ms. Clinton voted with 75 other senators in favor of this bill, and I for one intend to hold them all accountable for this vote going too far. As, Ms. Cooper suggests in her article, this vote against the Guard is like calling the US military a terrorist organization because it carries out Bush's orders. Even some of Ms. Clinton's campaign advisers feel this vote runs the risk of further alienating the Iranian population and or offshoots of Revolutionary Guards who are not Al Qaeda! Her own advisors hesitate to speak their minds since they are fearful of repercussions for differences of opinion from H. It is with much sadness that I see her rejecting talks as Obama has suggested in the debates. I don't see her reaching out to our enemies to try to come to terms with this horrid war and the awful hole we have dug by name calling, lies and votes such as last week, that leaves little place for Iran to enter into any type of peaceful negotiating. Ms. Clinton is playing with fire in trying to garner votes from anyone she can persuade that she is strong and willing to protect this country from the "Axis of Evil". I prefer someone who will reach their hand across the table and is willing to do just about anything to bring about peace for this country and the world we live in. Hopefully, Barack Obama will be able to mobilize enough young voters who realize what a mess the politicians of old have made of this country. He has clearly struck a chord among younger voters and us old folks who yearn for peace and sanity once again.
Love from a Sad Sunnyside
From Al Gore for President:
Al Gore for President?
Upon being chosen for the Nobel Peace Prize, Al Gore wrote:
"We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level."
Democrats.com began in 2000 at the convention that nominated Al Gore. We exposed the media's endless lies about Gore, as well as the truth about Bush - especially his still-unreported desertion from the Texas Air National Guard.
When Palm Beach voters sounded the alarm about the vote-altering "butterfly ballots," we led the fight to "count every vote" by organizing street protests across the country. When the Felonious Five on the Supreme Court threw out 175,000 never-counted votes to appoint Bush and Cheney, we helped write the famous Congressional Black Caucus challenge to Florida's electors. When not one Senator would stand with them, we helped organize the huge protests at Bush's inauguration. We never "got over" the Stolen Election of 2000 and we never will.
Many of you have already chosen your Democratic candidate for 2008, and we respect them all. But if you'd like Al Gore to run, please sign our petition:
http://democrats.com/run-al-gore
It has been a while since I have sent out your e-mails and I apologize but we have had some unfortunate family/friend losses and I am just getting back to my political "secretarial" job that you gave me during the Kerry-Edwards campaign in 2004. Maureen Dowd's column in NY Times on Sunday (written by Stephen Colbert) was very kind of a very telling reentry to politics. Colbert says," I can't remember if I'm supposed to be scared of Hillary so Democrats will think they should nominate her when she’s actually easy to beat, or if I'm supposed to be scared of her because she’s legitimately scary.Or he notes about Rudy Giuliani," I can't remember if I'm supposed to support him because he’s the one who can beat Hillary if she gets nominated, or if I'm supposed to support him because he’s legitimately scary."
Also,on the front page of the NY Times, Week in Review on Sunday there was a lead article by Helen Cooper ,"The Clinton Iran Vote Fallout". Hillary is still voting in favor of the Bush White House's insane suggestions, i.e. the measure that asked the Bush administration to declare Iran's 125,000 member Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization.
This move, "more hawkish than even most of the Bush administration has been willing to venture so far-would intensify America's continuing confrontation with Iran" states the article. It seems this was a vote precipitated by Ms. Clinton's need to guard against critics from the right. She is trying to reassure voters that she would be a tough minded administrator. Well, this doesn't reassure me at all. In fact, as my friend Susan said to me last Saturday, I'd be more impressed with her if she didn't want power so much and acted more like a woman concerned with the lives of soldiers dying in Iraq and bringing about peace. She looks to be (by her vote) supporting a case that could be viewed by many as an attempt by the administration to build a case for war with Iran.
Isn't this the way he started building the case against Iraq ,declaring them the enemy and members of the terrorist regime that attacked us in 9/11. Will we Dems stand by and allow this propaganda to build up again, and allow our leaders to vote for these issues? Ms. Clinton voted with 75 other senators in favor of this bill, and I for one intend to hold them all accountable for this vote going too far. As, Ms. Cooper suggests in her article, this vote against the Guard is like calling the US military a terrorist organization because it carries out Bush's orders. Even some of Ms. Clinton's campaign advisers feel this vote runs the risk of further alienating the Iranian population and or offshoots of Revolutionary Guards who are not Al Qaeda! Her own advisors hesitate to speak their minds since they are fearful of repercussions for differences of opinion from H. It is with much sadness that I see her rejecting talks as Obama has suggested in the debates. I don't see her reaching out to our enemies to try to come to terms with this horrid war and the awful hole we have dug by name calling, lies and votes such as last week, that leaves little place for Iran to enter into any type of peaceful negotiating. Ms. Clinton is playing with fire in trying to garner votes from anyone she can persuade that she is strong and willing to protect this country from the "Axis of Evil". I prefer someone who will reach their hand across the table and is willing to do just about anything to bring about peace for this country and the world we live in. Hopefully, Barack Obama will be able to mobilize enough young voters who realize what a mess the politicians of old have made of this country. He has clearly struck a chord among younger voters and us old folks who yearn for peace and sanity once again.
Love from a Sad Sunnyside
From Al Gore for President:
Al Gore for President?
Upon being chosen for the Nobel Peace Prize, Al Gore wrote:
"We face a true planetary emergency. The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift global consciousness to a higher level."
Democrats.com began in 2000 at the convention that nominated Al Gore. We exposed the media's endless lies about Gore, as well as the truth about Bush - especially his still-unreported desertion from the Texas Air National Guard.
When Palm Beach voters sounded the alarm about the vote-altering "butterfly ballots," we led the fight to "count every vote" by organizing street protests across the country. When the Felonious Five on the Supreme Court threw out 175,000 never-counted votes to appoint Bush and Cheney, we helped write the famous Congressional Black Caucus challenge to Florida's electors. When not one Senator would stand with them, we helped organize the huge protests at Bush's inauguration. We never "got over" the Stolen Election of 2000 and we never will.
Many of you have already chosen your Democratic candidate for 2008, and we respect them all. But if you'd like Al Gore to run, please sign our petition:
http://democrats.com/run-al-gore
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