Clinton Holding Private Conference Call With Donors Wednesday

Talking Points Memo:

This one bears watching: Hillary is set to hold a private conference call with her top fundraising leadership on Wednesday afternoon.

A source forwards me the email from her national finance director, Jonathan Mantz, inviting the money people on to the call. The email says that she wants to thank them for their "dedication and commitment" to her candidacy.

But the real question is what she'll say to them about Obama -- how strongly she'll signal to her top money people that it's time to get serious about throwing their fundraising weight behind the Illinois Senator.

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Comments

[riverhouse]

06:27 PM on 06/17/2008

It's time to quit talking about Hillary.

[barackobama4prez]

05:09 PM on 06/17/2008

Also, I think she and Bill should be ashamed for not paying their campaign debt for the little guy. Just selfish people.

[barackobama4prez]

05:01 PM on 06/17/2008

Pretty sure she will do everything to do as little to campaign for him as possible. The woman is a skilled liar and manipulato­r. Guess old slick willie taught her some tricks. But I've been stating since February that she will suspend her campaign and not campaign for the dems over the summer, and then bash the dems after the convention to avoid campaignin­g and continue to hold her supporters hostage. I would be very surprised if Hillary and Bill could put on their game face and campaign enthusiast­ically for the dems. Hope she proves me wrong...bu­t she's a woman scorned so it's anyone's guess.

[Gabrielle]

04:09 PM on 06/17/2008

Hey Guys to to www.hillar­yclinton.c­om that's the 1st thing you'll see...
Her asking to donate to Senator Obama....

check it out...

[UnknownSoldier]

01:06 PM on 06/17/2008

Someone remarked that her So Called "18 Million Voters" would only have to give her on average 2 dollars and her campaign debt would be cleared. My Question is how many of those 18 Million are really Republcans urged on by Rush Limbaugh and the likes.

[closetodemfection]

06:15 PM on 06/17/2008

Millions have been donating, myself included. She raised over 220 million - not from Repugs, please stop with that ridiculous theory. O is in debt over 2 million from the primaries himself.

I doubt her primary debt will be an issue much longer. Much of that debt she can write off. She has a 30 million dollar war chest that was earmarked for her GE campaign - many of those donors may authorize her using funds to pay off the debt. Worst comes to worst, she'll just lose the money she loaned herself. A couple book deals will pay that off easily.

[demfriend]

12:58 PM on 06/17/2008

Odd thing about the call and the "money people" for Clinton is that her campaign ended in the deep hole and he biggest money people were the ones who gave the max and culd give no more. So this call she will make is for what? She has not held up her end of the support for Obama as far as I can see as the people for her are all over the place with some going national in their upport of McCain because she lost. If she was supporting him she would be talking heavey to these people who have the issues all over the page showing they now believe she wasn't right about anything as she and Obama were so close in too many things they believe just different people. Mac is anti women and yet these Hillary supporters now love him?

[jeanrenoir]

10:57 AM on 06/17/2008

The revolution­ary thing about Obama--the thing that drove Hillary's "money people" to keep her in the race to the bitter end--is that he doesn't NEED their money! Hillary's "money people" are predominan­tly driven by their fears for Israel. They have been terrified of Obama all along because wealthy Jews have so little influence with him, because of his campaign financing revolution on the Net. He's no enemy of Israel, but he does have unique freedom of maneuver in the Middle East because he's the only American candidate since Reagan who's not been bought and paid for by the Israel Lobby. In light of how disastrous it has been for Israel itself to have used the neocons to turn Bush into a ventriloqu­ist's dummie for Israel in the launching of the Iraq War, in plans to bomb or go to war with Iran, etc.--all of which have simply made Iran's fanatical leaders stronger and stronger--­Israel's best de facto hope is likely to be an Obama victory, however frightened of him they are. Only Obama has the capacity to save Israel and AIPAC from their fanatical selves. Hillary could hardly wait to "obliterat­e" Iran; ditto McCain. Would this truly "safeguard­" Israel?

[mahoner]

10:56 AM on 06/17/2008

I'm signed up on HillaryCli­nton.com to keep a tabs as to what she's doing.

Received an email this morning saying "thanks to all her supporters to taking time to vote" BUT it still says Hillary Clinton FOR PRESIDENT in the banner.

Now why hasn't THAT been removed.

Also, no link to help get Barack Obama elected and she's still asking for donations.

I don't trust her.

[PrdAmerican]

12:49 PM on 06/17/2008

The pictures she shows in that little blurb...ju­st from the states she won...my antennae is waaaay up.

[closetodemfection]

06:17 PM on 06/17/2008

What are you talking about? She has thanking O all over her splash page and front page with video of her endorsment­.

[SEQUOIABISON]

09:31 AM on 06/17/2008

I have given up on predicting what Hillary will or will not do.

Not to rehash old bitter feelings over the democratic campaign but suffice it to say I am extremely happy that she is not our nominee.

Sorry but my hopes that she would one day be a great liberal democrat were dashed when she cast her vote to go to war with Iraq followed up with saber rattling jingoistic Republican talking points nonsense.

[clearthinker2008]

09:27 AM on 06/17/2008

So what? Why must she always be in the darn news?

[benne]

09:17 AM on 06/17/2008

Just want to say to NObama supporters and to the "democrati­c" party that it needs to respect democracy and put Hillary on the ticket. Without this, there will be no unity. Oh, and while you're at it, we should have a roll call at the convention­, as is traditiona­l because democratic­. What are you all frightened of? Perhaps, democracy.

[kdublya]

09:35 AM on 06/17/2008

If Sen. Clinton is the best VP candidate, what democratic competitio­n are you frightened of?

[geobushono]

09:40 AM on 06/17/2008

benne hasn't learned that hillary tried to kill the king and failed....­.......alw­ays considered a fatal mistake.

[condew]

09:44 AM on 06/17/2008

Hillary on the ticket would energize Republican­s like McCain can't.

[Bond007]

09:14 AM on 06/17/2008

She got debt to pay,,, She is gonna whip a charm on them and have them give more to clean up her debt. MONEY, MONEY, MONEY!

[Bettysdad]

03:35 AM on 06/17/2008

I'm surprised to learn there are conference call capabiliti­es in Bosnia.

[KQuarksSuperKollider]

02:37 AM on 06/17/2008

So Hillary's back from her exile in Saint Helena. I'm just kidding she had a well deserved vacation. I hope she'll be back soon to campaign with Obama.

[BigBen]

03:20 AM on 06/17/2008

No politician with a brain gives away their donors.So don't hold your breath.Did­n't think Obama needed money from Hillary.

[lexicoscott]

12:06 PM on 06/17/2008

yes, didn't think he needed anything from Clinton. Why are so many displeased with her inability to give Obama anything.

If Obama is the outright candidate with the money machine record breaking fundraisin­g and nothing to worry about, why the hell does anyone care about what Hillary does.

I don't understand how so many get pissed off because she didn't concede or that she hasn't released her delegates and hasn't pushed her money makers ;) to assist Obama. It's funny to see half the Obama supporters so angry she hasn't done enough, and then the other half so angry that she is still in the news. Sounds like a very un-united group.

[vippy]

08:27 AM on 06/17/2008

She has not yet released her delegates. What is she waiting for? She is not to be trusted and proves it every day.

[benne]

09:16 AM on 06/17/2008

If you believed in democracy which most NObama supporters do not, you would not be asking her to release her delegates. You would demand rather a role call in which all delegates are announced to their respective candidates­. Wonder why no one wants such a role call? Because it will be obvious that NObama did not actually win democratic­ally. It was a tie, as the roll call will show. That's why Papa Dean wants to make sure that there's no legitimate roll call because it would destroy "unity".

[rooks]

12:11 AM on 06/17/2008

What's the call in number? Participan­t code?