Hillary Ally Drops Mailer In Florida -- Despite Candidates' Pledge Against Campaigning

More of the same from the "say anything, do anything" gang...

Hillary Ally Drops Mailer In Florida -- Despite Candidates' Pledge Against Campaigning
By Greg Sargent - January 29, 2008, 6:44PM

AFSCME drops a new mailer in Florida urging a vote for Hillary. The mailer was sent our way by a political operative, and while by law this has to be uncoordinated with the Hillary campaign, the union is obviously carrying out activity on her behalf despite the candidates' "pledge" against campaigning there.

The Hillary campaign aggressively made the case today that despite the pledge, the voters of Florida deserve to be heard and that the state's delegation should be seated.

Also note the heavy push-back in the mailer on Obama's "change" message (which is done without mentioning Obama). Click on the images to enlarge:

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2008/01/hillary_ally_drops_mailer_in_florida.php#comments

they can control their own people, sometimes, but outsiders--nah.

You are a complete fool for thinking so...or pushing another Hate Hillary thread.

Hillary has proven she doesn't play by the rules. This is just another shining example.

Hate Hillary? Not quite there...yet.

go the fund raiser in Florida last night, forced Penn to have a teleconference call today in Florida, and have a gun at her head so that she goes to the 'victory' party tonight.

"go the fund raiser in Florida last night"

Fundraisng is specifically exempt from the pledge.

"forced Penn to have a teleconference call today in Florida"

He held the conference on FL. Not IN FL.

"she goes to the 'victory' party tonight."

Yes post election celebration is somehow campaigning.

to come the night before and listen to the folks in a fund raiser, having a news conference pandering at getting the delegate ruling reversed and publicizing and inviting people to a party before the polls are closed are yes all forms of campaigning

Clinton must have more than this.

By the way the point of the post I was responding too was that Hillary did not send the mailing had no control over it and was not doing anything to help the campaign. That is not true.


How lets just save time, you will respond that none of that technically violates the no campaign pledge


And then I will answer yes you are correct technically you could argue that, but here is the bigger point that the Clinton supporters just are not getting.


These are the same people who argued in a deposition that a particular answer depended on "what the definition of is, is". If that is all you have fine. If you are completely devoid of substantive issues and are not going to spend the rest of the campaign parsing every word and action so you can sleep better knowing that your candidate isn't pissing off the rest of the party. Fine

But if that is all you have you are not going to get the nomination.

The country is tired of it. Period.

She's a cheat. Did not keep her word.

I think this too is going to backfire on Clinton. She doesn't look good when she's acting underhanded. It's not appealing to voters.

Just what I heard.

They came from Congresswoman Nelson, IIRC. And what did you hear, exactly?

Is this why "mailers for Obama" were also dropped in Florida today by an "ally"? This demonization of Clinton and bestowing "sainthood" on Obama is truly getting to be ludicrous!

A political operative forwards us this mailer that Obama backer UNITE dropped in Florida urging a vote for him.

The Obama campaign has mocked the Hillary campaign's insistence that the Florida voting should be seen as significant and that the state's delegates should be seated.

By law the Obama campaign can't coordinate with UNITE, and this isn't the work of the Obama campaign. But this Obama ally seems to see that the breakdown of the Florida vote will carry weight in the coverage, if not in terms of delegates. The mailer urges, in English and Spanish, that Floridians "Vote! in the Florida Primary..."



http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2008/01/obama_ally_drops_lit_in_florida_urging_vote_despite_candidates_nocampaiging_pledge.php


Huh. From same site posted in OP. :shrug:

1/28/08, 6:30PM - 8:30PM Get Out The Vote - Phone Banking
1226 East 7th Avenue
Tampa, FL

Join us for an evening of phone-banking, encouraging Obama supporters to get out to the polls on January 29th. Bring your cell phone and plenty of enthusiasm as we do our part to ensure that when it comes to Barack, Tampa Bay REPRESENTS!


http://www.obamaotrain.com/events.php

Just like the ads Barack has ran the past several weeks.

"Obama for America neither supports or endorses this website or its content in any way."

Because it is!

;)

A political operative forwards us this mailer that Obama backer UNITE dropped in Florida urging a vote for him.

The Obama campaign has mocked the Hillary campaign's insistence that the Florida voting should be seen as significant and that the state's delegates should be seated.

By law the Obama campaign can't coordinate with UNITE, and this isn't the work of the Obama campaign. But this Obama ally seems to see that the breakdown of the Florida vote will carry weight in the coverage, if not in terms of delegates. The mailer urges, in English and Spanish, that Floridians "Vote! in the Florida Primary..."



http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2008/01/obama_ally_drops_lit_in_florida_urging_vote_despite_candidates_nocampaiging_pledge.php


Huh. From same site you posted in OP. :shrug: