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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 4:54 pm Post subject: "StopHerNow.com" Debut |
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A new anti-Hillary website has made its debut, StopHerNow.com, and it gets some negative attention (and mandatory Conservative $$$ bashing) from the Dallas Morning News...
| Quote: | Wealthy Texans paying to derail Hillary Clinton
Many bank on outside '527' groups to help defeat candidates
by WAYNE SLATER
The Dallas Morning News
December 4, 2006
AUSTIN – A Dallas businessman is helping bankroll an effort to derail Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential hopes, and he says he plans to tap other big-money Texans in the cause.
Richard Collins has put at least $80,000 into a group called Stop Her Now, which launched a new Web site last week targeting the possible frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in 2008.
"We expect to raise millions of dollars, a lot of it from online people and a lot of it from wealthy, conservative donors from around the country that want to keep Hillary Clinton from being elected president," Mr. Collins said.
The effort is the latest example of a small network of Texans with deep pockets funding independent committees, an expansion of their influence beyond just raising money directly for candidates. The groups, which emerged in the 2004 presidential campaign, are a powerful new force influencing national campaigns.
In addition to the Web site, which will feature cartoons and a series of animated shorts dubbed the "Hillary Show," Mr. Collins said the anti-Clinton group plans an aggressive direct-mail campaign.
"We're going to define Hillary as an ambitious, calculating, tough political operator who is trying to define herself as a centrist Democrat when, in fact, she's an ultraliberal Democrat," said Mr. Collins, who owns a newspaper group with publications in Cedar Hill, Duncanville, DeSoto, Lancaster and Grand Prairie.
Clinton supporter Garry Mauro dismissed the venture as a "bad investment."
"They should save their money to attack people who are relatively unknown," said Mr. Mauro, a former Texas land commissioner and long-time political ally of the Clintons.
Mr. Mauro said Ms. Clinton is so well-known that groups like Stop Her Now are likely to have little impact on changing the strong opinions that people already have about her.
Ms. Clinton won a lightly contested re-election race to her New York Senate seat in November and is weighing a presidential bid.
Ann Lewis, spokeswoman for Ms. Clinton's political committee, said the senator is prepared to defend herself against any group that mounts a serious attack, such as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads that caused problems for Democratic nominee John Kerry in 2004.
<snip mandatory liberal angst and hand-wringing over Bob Perry's support for the enormously informative and successful SVPT campaign>
Dallas Morning News - cont'd |
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Schadow
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Mrs. C. is receiving some unwanted competition from Barack Hussein Obama:
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streetsweeper95B
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*slapping my thigh* kind of chuckling!
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BuffaloJack
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Makes you wonder. They probably ordered him to act nice.
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Me#1You#10
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| Posted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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| BuffaloJack wrote: | | Makes you wonder. They probably ordered him to act nice. |
I dunno Jack...that shadow looks mighty suspicious...but I sure like the message  |
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