Clinton Campaign Response To New York Times Rejected

The Clinton campaign is fighting back against a Sunday New York Times report by Patrick Healy that suggests her campaign is not only deteriorating, but that she is foreshadowing her exit through valedictory statements.

Armed with hundreds of signatures from campaign staffers and volunteers, the campaign attempted to respond with a letter to the editor in the Times, but says it was rejected on the grounds that they hold "valuable space" for "ordinary readers." A Clinton aide pointed out that "This letter is a mere 218 words, and signed by 503 people - thirty three times as many people as the story cites, and all of them by name." Clinton staffers and volunteers also submitted individual letters, which the Times has yet to accept.

Below is a copy of the letter and the list of signatures.

(Update: NYT editorial page editor Andy Rosenthal responds, saying he didn't run the letter because it was a thinly disguised "press release." Citing the letter below, TPM's Greg Sargent talks to a Clinton insider about the campaign's apparent new strategy of running against the media.)

To the Editor,

In regards to Patrick Healy's story on Sun, Feb 24, 2008, "Somber Clinton Soldiers On as the Horizon Darkens"

The unnamed advisers and aides the story relies on speak for nobody but themselves.

The rest of us - thousands of her supporters, friends, members of her staff and volunteers - are working tirelessly each and every day and night, because we believe in Hillary. We believe she will win the nomination. We believe she will win in November. And we know she will make the best President of the United States.

Hillary is a voice for countless Americans across the country who need a champion, a problem solver, a president. That's what she's done her whole life. That's what inspires us. Those of us who have had the honor of working for Hillary Clinton - as First Lady, as Senator, and as a candidate for the Presidency - are awed by her passion and her service. We all strive to live up to her example, to do our best every day to serve this nation.

Millions of Americans across the country have already cast their votes and made it clear that they want Hillary Clinton as their president. Millions more have yet to have their chance. These are the opinions and voices that matter.

Signed,

Hillary Clinton staff & volunteers (Listed Alphabetically)

Huma Abedin, Barbara Adair, Emily Aden, Caroline Adler, Jonathan Adler, Jon Adrabi, Alexandra Agius, Nahiyan Ahmad, Edward Allen, Scott Andes, Mishan Araujo, Kat Atwater, Rob Bachmann, Angela Baker, Isaac Baker, Kate Balcerzak, Kris Balderston, William Ballard, Liza Ballantine, Erik Balsbaugh, Dave Barnhart, Nathan Barr, Sarah Barton, Katie Bassler, Kamyl Bazbaz, Kate Beale, Shaun Beaulac, Eric Bederman, Hank Bennett, Adrienne Lee Benson, Michelle Bensignor, Ronda Bernstein, Jay Biba, Nick Black, Eric Blackwell, Nina Blackwell, Andrew Bleeker, Lane H. Blumenfeld, Traci Blunt, Greg Bohne, Swathi Bojedla, Chad Bolduc, Fredrick Bolinder, Reva Bottles, Sari Bourne, Michael Brasher, Jackie Bray, Justin Brennan, Seth Bringman, Rickey Broadway, Erica Brooks, Alvin Brown, Catherine Brown, Christina Brown, Sasha Bruce, Justin Burchard, Case Button, Emily Buttrey, Colleen M. Byers, Emily Cain, Meredith Cabe, Jeannie Carlson, Tony Carrk, Jay Carson, Tronn Carson, Nick Casey, Carolyn Cavaness, Georgiana Cavendish, Guy Cecil, Michel Chaghouri, Theresa Chalhoub, Robin Chappelle, Daniel Felipe Chavez, Daniel Isaac Chavez, Catherine Chen, Brad Cheney, Dennis Cheng, Cynthia Cho, Lenore Cho, Lillian Choi, Pam Cicetti, Sarah Clark, Nick Clemons, Daniel Cloudt, Meagan Coffman, Dana Cohn, Caroline Cole, Ellen Connell, Marina Costabile, Sean T. Conway, Sam Cooper, Stephanie Coronado, Brynne Craig, Peter Daou, Darrin Davis, Stephanie Davis, Jon Davidson, Nicole Davison, Trevor Dean, Mary deBree, Elizabeth deGrazia Blumenfeld, Kristian De Meo, Mike Delany, Drew Densmore, Phillip de Souza, DiBartolomeo, Robert Dible, Allison DiRienzo, Alexander Djerassi, Mary Beth Dolecki, Ryan Donohue, Lorianne D'Orazio, Katie Dowd, Jonathan Drobis, Anna Dudek, Jay Dunn, Pam duPre', Lauren Durham, Abe Dyk, Jessica Eaton, Dana Edelstein, Cleon Edwards, Nancy Eiring, Mo Elleithee, Katie Ellis, Adrienne Elrod, Will Elwood, Andrew English, Naomi A. Eskin, Miguel Espinoza, Daphne Evans, Leecia Eve, Chris Falvo, Benjamin Farley, Anne C. Fauvre, Matt Felan, Daniel Felipe Chavez, Lance Fiasconaro, Joseph Figueiredo, Rosalind Fink, Mike Firestone, Christopher Fitzgerald, Paige Fitzgerald, Ashley Floreen, Michael Florio, Larry Fogel, Sabra Foley, Scott Freda, Josh Friedman, Michael Fuchs, Kimberly Fulton, Bethany Gardiner-Smith, David Garten, Kathleen Gasperine, Ann Gavaghan, Paige Gebhardt, Sarah Gegenheimer, Ethan Gelber, Audrey Gelman, Stephanie Gent, Kate Geyer, Harold Gist, Olivia Gobert-Hicks, Adam Goers, Aaron Goldman, Joe Goldman, Rebecca Godlewicz, Aaron Goldman, Ana Gonzaga Bedayo, Jessica Gonzalez, Meghan Hays Goodman, Stefanie Goodsell, Matt Goodwin, Christopher Gowen, Laura Graham, Timmothy Green, Valerie Green, Doug Greven, Caroline Grier, Mandy Grunwald, Crystallyn Guest, Tulin Gurer, Nicole Haber, Carolyn Hahn, Jon Haines, Greg Hale, Carrie Hall, Patrick Hallahan, Sarah Hamilton, Diane Hamwi, Monica Hanley, Aaron Harris, Doug Hattaway, Maggie Havemann, Emily Hawkins, Clay Haynes, Meghan Hays Goodman, Catherine Hazelton, Christina Henderson, Eric Hersey, Karen Hicks, Elisabeth Hire, Melissa Ho, Trent Holbrook, Micah Honeycutt, Alex Hornbrook, Christie Houlihan, Jason Houser, Annie Hughes, Kathryn Hurlbut, Sarah Hurwitz, Dana Hyde, Brandon Hynes, Regine Irele, Walker Irving, Carmella Isabella, Christina Iskandar, Katie Jack, Darrell Jackson Jr., Nancy Jacobson, Rafi Jafri, Keya Jayaram, Irene Jefferson, Jordan Jiloty, Lauren Jiloty, Graeme Joeck, Keren Johnson, LaToya Johnson, Lily Johnson, Maia Johnson, Sean Johnson, Cassandra Jones, Monica Jordan, Michael Kanick, Lane Kasselman, Ioanna Kefala, Matthew Kehres, Connolly Keigher, Elizabeth Kelley, Dana Kelly, Rachel Kelly, Corley Kenna, Thomas Kerr, Michelle Kessler, Murad Khan, Yekyu Kim, Jarard Kings, Jaclyn Kinney, Sabrina Kirkwood, Barthelemy Kiss, Eric Kleinfeld, Ben Kobren, Brenda Kole, Chaitanya Komanduri, Meredith Kormes, Josh Kram, Thomas Kroeger, Michelle Krohn-Friedson, Laura Krolczyk, Jessia Krupke, Stephanie Kujawski, Lorna Kurdi, Erika Soto Lamb, Roger Lau, Betsy Lavender, Chris Lavery, Hyun J. Lee, Hilary Lefebvre Perry, Joyce Lenard, Michael Lenihan, Nicholas Lepham, Jeremy Lerman, Rebecca Leventhal, Lindsay Levin, Fabien Levy, Judi Levy, Mark I. Levy, Ann Lewis, Kidron Lewis, Judy Lichtman, Ricki Lieberman, Carly Lindauer, Arielle Linsky, Jon Lipshutz, Susan Liss, Lach Litwer, Emily Lockwood, Catherine Loeffelman, Phyllis Love, Jon Lovett, Bari Lurie, Matt Lurrie, Tamera Luzzatto, Dawn Mabery, Sharyn Magarian, Chad Maisel, Samantha Maltzman, Jamie Mannina, Jonathan Mantz, Lindsay Marsh, Capricia Marshall, Lindsey Marshall, Marlon Marshall, Mather Martin, Chelsea Maughan, David Mauro, Molly McAndrew, Michael McCray, Robert McDaniel, Cecil McDonald, Kevin McGhaw, Mary McKenna, Matt McKenna, Camellia Meehan, Ebony Meeks, Kelly Mehlenbacher, Sheila Menz, Nick Merrill, Susan Merrell, Luz Mendez, Noah Messing, Dana Messinger, Matt Michaelree, Michael Miller, Michaela Miller, Stephan H. Miller, Cheryl Mills, Kim Molstre, Mike Monroe, Nicole Montefusco, Lauren Montes, Robby Mook, Brie Moore, Minyon Moore, Linda Moore Forbes, Bobby Moran, Patricia Morris, Dana Morrissey, Dan Morocco, Kate Morrow, Shelly Moskwa, Annie Mullaly, Michael Muller, Tim Mulvey, Deirdre Murphy, Maxwell Nacheman, Bob J Nash, Erika Nelson, David Nerio, Sarah Nolan, Jed Ober, Jessica O'Connell, Eric Oginsky, Daniel O'Hara, Johna Ohtagaki, James Orintas, Gina Ormand, Brendan O'Sullivan, Mildred Otero, Yaël Ouzillou, Saskia Pallais, Maura Pally, Andrea Palm, Nick Panagopolous, Katie Parker, Adam Parkhomenko, Jennifer Parsons, Amee Patel, Shraddha Patel Tewary, Jon Patsavos, Amelia Pelly, Laura Pena, Karli Penders, Jessica Perez, Karen Persichilli Keogh, Darren Peters, Chelsea Peterson, Laura Phelps, William Pierce, III, Amanda Piter, Michael Pleyte, Jen Polenzani, Kyla Pollack, Ben Pollara, Daniel Pollock, Matt Porter, Dara Poster, Chad Radock, Jamie Radice, Jason Rahlan, Russel Rampersand, Candace Randle, Tara Rangarajan, Amy Ransom, Mona Raphael, William Reese, Philippe Reines, Nancy Richardson, Alex Richmond, Sam Ritzman, Joleen Rivera, Adam Robinson, Megan Rodman, Fabiola Rodriguez-Ciampoli, Maria Isabel Rodriguez, Miguel Rodriguez, Rose E. Rodriguez, Traci L. Rodriguez, Tori Roth, Frank Rothman, Stefanie Roumeliotes, Victoria Ruan, Ali Rubin, Emma Ruiz, Isaac Ruiz, Rishi Sahgal, Jordan Salberg, Melissa Salmanowitz, Heather Samuelson, Edgar Santana, Joshua Schank, Nick Schmit, Ron Schneider, Beth Schoenbach, Dan Schwerin, Jamie Scott, Talley Sergent, Andrew Shapiro, Geri Shapiro, Stella Shaw, Saul Shemesh, Elisa Shyu, Avra Siegel, Phil Singer, Dana Singiser, Dawn Smalls, William Smart, Ace Smith, Ashley Smith, Carson Smith, Edward Smith, Jamie Smith, Natasha Smith, Kate Sokolov, Maya Solis, Patti Solis Doyle, Emily Solon, Jonathan Soohoo, Phil Spector, Uday Sreekanth, Tali Stein, Susan Stern, Haley Stevens, Heather Stone, Katharine Stoltenberg, Kathleen Strand, Burns Strider, Erin Suhr, Katie Sullivan, Stephanie Sutton, Michael Szymanski, Kyle Lynn Taylor, Matt Tepper, Richard Thayer, Emily Thomas, Meigan Thompson, Nora Toiv, Lucé Tomlin-Brenner, Caroline Torosis, Michael H. Trujillo, Cristina Trutanich, Lyn Utrecht, Angel Urena, Dan Utech, Lona Valmoro, Melissa Vanzant, Sarah Venuto, Teresa Velmain, Aaron J. Ver, Luis Vizcaino, Rachel Vogelstein, Tony Wagner, Charlotte Waldo, Mark Walsh, Lindsey Walters, Denene Wambach, Vanessa Weaver, Ervin Webb, Jr., Enid Weishaus, Geoff Wetrosky, Brian Whitehurst, Antoinette Whitmore, Courtney Whitney, Josh Williams, Maggie Williams, Carol Willis, Jeanne R. Wilson, Laurie Wingate, David Wolf, Howard Wolfson, Travis D Worl, Eric Woodard, Coety Wyse, Simon Zewdman, ###

Comments

[SeconLine]

If the Clinton campaign want this to run in the NYT, they should buy a full page ad space & run it.

[shinybear]

She can't afford a full page and you know it!

[MIHOP]

Oh, SHE can afford it, but how much is she willing to invest in this campaign?

[Roose]

Once again she proves that when things don't go her way, she will bite the hand that feeds her. NYT has not only endorsed her, but has bent over backwards to give the harridan positive coverage, and then they write something which was neither negative nor positive, she throws a temper tantrum. God, how I despise this woman.

[partyofone]

Yep, the NYT lost me when they endorsed her. What a joke.

[Rendon76]

I've always defended Hillary and never understood why Republicans thought she was such a bitch. I know exactly where they're coming from now. This is the first time I've ever disliked her.

[partyofone]

It comes in different ways for differnt people at different times. Many many former supporters have come to see the Clintons in a different light, recognizing their dishonesty, greedy, mean-spiritedness, and corruption.

Once you see it, the pattern becomes clear, and you can never support the Clintons again.

[Didi47]

Oh gee... another first time, "I finally get it" Hillary hater .... my Goodness what a good person you are.

Another Obama clone disciple has joined the " Everybody repeat after me" club.

[woundedduck]

Hilary sounds like Liz Taylor during the Oscars a few years back, when she and Newman were presenters. They played a clip from "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" with both of them in it, and Newman quipped, "Who were those good looking kids?" To which Liz the Bloated Behemoth responded, "Hey, I think we still look pretty good." All Newman could say was, "Uh, yeah."

Hilary's campaign is doing great? Uh, yeah.

[melann830]

Here is the problem with Hillary haters: they only feel this way because deep down they know she is telling the truth and they choose not to accept it because they are so blatantly enamored by Obama's faux charm and appearance and because they are so "wounded" by Bush/Cheney's antics that anything down the middle is not good enough. According to many of you who post moderation has now become synonomous with evil. So in this spirit, dieters go back to overfeeding yourselves, those who are sober should keep getting drunk and psychotics should stop their meds, Lets all go back to maxing out our credit cards and failing to have a head on our shoulders. Do you all realize that this is how you appear to the rest of us with common sense. When you disown moderation, you end up with serious dilemmas.

[Nochnoi]

Ah... Okay...

*moderation with words*

[SmootyBooty]

I got your moderation right here. YOUR candidate authored a bill calling for an amendment to the constitution banning flag burning. And that's it, since she hit the Senate.
And just for your edification-all charm is "faux."

[melann830]

Speak for yourself, I know plenty of naturally charming people. Sorry, you have such low self-esteem.

[rivrgrrl]

99.5% hogwash.

[Sisyphuss]

You poor, lost soul.

[Jinxykb]

I love Hillary but I think she is losing this race, could not win the Presidential election, and her campaign advisors have advised her horribly. Hillary's crappy campaign lead me to opt for Obama, who until the last month was a very distant 2nd choice for me. Your post is chalk full of false assumptions, and it sounds like you are buying into the rhetoric of Hillary's heavy-handed campaign managers. Not very smart.

[Rendon76]

Crying doesn't get you what you want.

[Sisyphuss]

Except in New Hampshire.

[SmootyBooty]

Best line all afternoon!

[melann830]

LOL, I'm sure millions of wives would disagree with you! LOL, LOL,LOL!!

[Roose]

Once again she proves that when things don't go her way, she will bite the hand that feeds her. NYT has bent over backwards to give this harridan positive coverage, and then they write something which was neither negative nor positive, she throws a temper tantrum. God, how I despise this woman.

[rachaelisacancer]

A re-post brought on by "NYT has bent over backwards to give this harridan positive coverage"... which is a joke in and of itself.

The NYT is a joke. Is there anyone out there with any journalistic credibility, or the ability of critical thought, or common sense, who DOESN'T think the Times is a big, fat joke?

F the NYT.

[shinybear]

They ENDORSED her.

Cult psychology expert Paul Krugman does her dirty work for her there!

Has she lost her mind?

[Lucille]

Hillary's hoping for another New Hampshire. Hillary wants people who pity her to vote for her, however, in this case I think the voters are going to finally put her out of her misery.

[PODdem]

OBAMA SO MUCH FOR BEING PURE...

Hedge Funds Embrace Obama, Donate Less to Clinton
By REUTERS

Filed at 4:50 p.m. ET

BOSTON (Reuters) - Hedge funds shifted bets in the hotly contested U.S. presidential race in January when they wrote bigger checks to Democratic contender Barack Obama after favoring his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in 2007.

The $1.8 trillion hedge fund industry donated $50,450 to Obama last month when the Illinois senator won wide support among voters in early caucuses and primaries, new data show.

Clinton, who lost Iowa but defied pollsters by winning the New Hampshire primary, took in $18,800, the lowest donated to either party's front runners.

In comparison, hedge funds gave $26,400 to Republican front-runner Sen. John McCain in January, according to the data compiled for Reuters by the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan campaign finance research group.

"Hedge funds may be synchronizing their giving with Obama's pull ahead in the polls, and people might be realizing that if they haven't given him money already, it might not hurt them to write some checks now," said Denise Valentine, who focuses on hedge funds at financial consulting firm Aite Group.

January's numbers are in contrast to last year when Clinton, a New York senator, pulled in $681,250 while Obama raised $552,374 and McCain received a much smaller $116,550.

Managers and analysts had expected Clinton to keep drawing the lion's share of donations because many hedge funds managers have expressed support for her pro-business stance, health care ideas and education reforms.

Obama's broader calls for change unnerved the loosely regulated industry, several fund managers said privately, worrying change might mean less freedom for them.

But the industry's biggest and most successful funds appear to hedging their bets for a winner after Obama prevailed in 11 contests over the last two weeks.

"Obama may not be explicitly for hedge funds, but managers want to make sure that he isn't against them either and that might factor into the trend in new donations," Valentine said.

New York hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, run by former mathematics professor Jim Simons, supported Clinton with $50,600 last year. In January the fund gave nothing to its home-state senator but donated $9,100 to Obama who received only $2,300 from Renaissance in 2007.

Individuals can give only $2,300 during the primaries.

Similarly, D.E. Shaw, another New York-based fund, was less generous with Clinton in January, giving her only $3,600 compared with the $9,325 the fund's employees donated to Obama. Last year, Clinton pulled in $58,500 from D.E. Shaw, outpacing the $17,294 that Obama received.

(Reporting by Svea Herbst-Bayliss)

[SamanthaJaneSalem]

Wall Street likes Obama-- Fox Going Out Of Business Channel can skip that smear on him.

No money from corporate lobbyists though.

[bluecoyote]

You do realize that Chelsea works for a hedge fund?

[LaFeminazi]

Chelsea running?

[greenbrier]

Wow. $50K is peanuts for these guys.

I just can't believe that Chelsea is pulling in $150K a year. If my 27-year-old kid were earning that much, I don't know if I could earnestly claim to feel the pains of the working class.

[baghdadjoe]

Who ever said Obama was PURE?

Obama may not be perfect, but he is clearly much less bad than Hillary Clinton.

[LaFeminazi]

Or just a shorter career.

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

An endorsement is nothing compared to the scandal of Bill Clinton changing tax laws and making millions from Hedge Funds:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ViecghWE3pk

[melann830]

Did you read the article,"OBAMA'S FINANCE PLOY" in the Wall Sreet Journal?? You and every other American should before you go to the polls. This article clearly depicts his integrity as lack luster.

[mwinyimbegu]

HOW CAN I WATCH TONIGHTS DEBATE?

I AM SURE ITS NOT ON CNN AND I ONLY HAVE ACCESS TO INTERNET

[Triangulate]

It's on MSNBC...and they may stream it. Check it out at their online site.

[biglover]

It is on MSNBC and you should be able to catch them streaming live - 9PM eastern 6 PM pacific time.

[Imrightyourewrong]

C-span may carry it.

[LaFeminazi]

Liberalism refers to a broad array of related ideas and theories of government that consider individual liberty to be the most important political goal.[1] Liberalism has its roots in the Western Age of Enlightenment.

Broadly speaking, liberalism emphasizes individual rights and equality of opportunity. Different forms of liberalism may propose very different policies, but they are generally united by their support for a number of principles, including extensive freedom of thought and speech, limitations on the power of governments, the rule of law, the free exchange of ideas, a market or mixed economy, and a transparent system of government.[2] All liberals — as well as some adherents of other political ideologies — support some variant of the form of government known as liberal democracy, with open and fair elections, where all citizens have equal rights by law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism

[LaFeminazi]

Its not a question of left and right, its a question about objective.

Libertarains fall under the same banner.

[ChimpmasterDJ]

I'm curious.... What manner of twisted gymnastics of false logic does it take to try to reconcile Hillary's record with that definition of a "liberal"? Can it be done at all, without becoming too grotesque?

[Tinman08]

Enough of Hillary's angry rants. You can't win votes through nagging and belittling. If I wanted to hear an old white woman bitch, I'd move in with my mother-in-law.

[naturesway]

Is this how you address other women in your life? It's telling. You have woman issues. Or you are 12.

[SmootyBooty]

You've taken this pc thing too far, dear...

[rivrgrrl]

LMAO

Well said.

[SouthpawSass]

HAPPY MUSIC BREAK!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkwJ-g0iJ6w

[rivrgrrl]

Thanks.

Good choice; I love that song.

[Adrienne4Dean]

You tell 'em, Hillary. Add my name to that list.

http://www.hillaryspeaksforme.com/

*****A

[dartagnan]

Can you smell the desperation? The NYT endorsed Hillary so it's tough for her followers to claim it's biased for Obama. The Times story just told it like it is.

[rachaelisacancer]

The NYT is a joke. Is there anyone out there with any journalistic credibility, or the ability of critical thought, or common sense, who DOESN'T think the Times is a big, fat joke?

[rachaelisacancer]

I forgot to say...

F the NYT.