Posted by Tina
Hillary Clinto hasn’t officially declared that she will run for President in the 2016 election but if fat cat contributors are any indication, she’ll be loaded for bear when she finally makes the announcement. Politico reports:
A pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC named several prominent Democratic donors on Friday in its push to build support for the former secretary of state to run for president in 2016.
Wal-Mart scion Alice Walton, financiers George and Robert Soros and the law firm of liberal megadonors Steve and Amber Mostyn all cut $25,000 checks to Ready for Hillary last year, the super PAC said in a public filing.
The filing paints a fuller picture of the people who helped the super PAC raise more than $4 million in 2013, well ahead of a presidential race that Clinton appears to be eyeing but has not publicly committed to joining after her failed bid in 2008.
Other donors who gave the maximum $25,000 accepted by the super PAC included Bill Rudin, a Clinton bundler in 2008; Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis, a former U.S. ambassador to Hungary under Clinton; and Jon Stryker, a billionaire philanthropist.
Silda Wall, an investor who recently filed for divorce with former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, also made a contribution. So did Lynn Cutler, Ann Lewis and Lanny Davis, former aides in the Bill Clinton White House; Terry Shumaker, a New Hampshire operative; and the campaign of New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney.
“Homeland” producer Howard Gordon, financier Thomas Lee, psychologist Gail Furman and longtime Democratic donor Elaine Schuster also chipped in.
Millionaires and billionairs and former croney bears…OH MY!
The Washington Post reports that a Post/ABC poll indicates Hillary is the “biggest frontrunner”…ever…whatever that means:
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 61-point edge over Joe Biden in new Washington Post-ABC News polling makes her the single biggest frontrunner for a Democratic presidential nomination in the history of the poll, an affirmation of the conventional wisdom that the nomination is hers for the taking.
The Post is joining fat cat billionaires in promoting Hillary if they left Elizabeth Warren’s name out of the poll. According to another poll taken prior to the last election she was favored among progressives in the party:
A survey of attendees at this week’s Take Back the American Dream conference in Washington, D.C. revealed that 59 percent of them want a female president in 2016.
Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren edged out Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the top pick for the next Democratic presidential nominee by a margin of 32 to 27 percent, according to end-of-conference straw poll results released on Wednesday.
What’s a radical progressive to do?
Which extremist will grab the prize…the fat cat former First Lady with billionaire backing or the grass roots underdog favorite?
Will the voices that now deride participation by the Koch brothers issue venomous accusations about Soros and WalMart money…will their filthy lucre be seen as an extremist bid to “take over the country”?
Will the millions spent by Soros through his Tides Foundation and countless leftist “nonprofits” (wink wink) now be derided as part of the conspiracy?
Will unions send protesters out to harass and demean Alice Walton…or will she get a pass now that a family member of the WalMart fortune is contributing to the favored Democrat candidate?