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Posted at 7:10pm on Jul. 8, 2008 Now the fun starts.
Game on.
By Moe Lane
Expect the Democrats to howl about this one:
(H/T: Hot Air)
...and expect the Republicans to smile nastily and murmur "100 years, boychiks. 100 years." Not that the situation's the same, of course. The Democrats twisted McCain's position into a pretzel, but we can't do that to the Iraq position of the junior Senator from Illinois.
Obama himself beat us to it.
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Posted at 10:09am on Jun. 29, 2008 MI Morning Update: MRP-RNC GOTV Training Big Success - MI Budget Balance: Still No Reforms - MI Budget Grows...Again!
By saul anuzis
128 Days until Election Day
June 29, 2008
MORNING UPDATE:
MRP-RNC VOTER VAULT TRAINING...was a great success as over 50 activists gathered to see the latest Voter Vault has to offer. This was the first of two training sessions, MRP-RNC GOTV/Votervault training. With the RNC's, help we were able to help prepare our grassroots activists and local candidates for the campaign ahead. Special thanks to Paul Viar and Stephanie Pazdro for helping us make this event a success.
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Posted at 3:45pm on Jun. 18, 2008 Well, at least there's *some* good news coming out of the NRSC. [UPDATE: And NRCC.]
Whether you consider that good news yourself is of course open to question.
By Moe Lane
The NRSC is announcing (via Roll Call) that they have exceeded expectations at this year's President's Dinner fundraiser: $13.5 million, or $1.5 million over their goal (it's a joint fundraiser between them and the NRCC, which was aiming for $7 million; I've got a call out to find out how they did) [UPDATE: They raised $8 million, or $1 million over their goal]. To give perspective, the NRSC's 2007 total was $7.5 million; in 2006, it was $12 million; and in 2004, $7 million. Said dinner will headline the President, but not Senator McCain... which is again one of those things that you can take any way you like; and no doubt, most people will.
Folks, brass tacks time. You're unhappy with the job performance of the GOP's legislative branch. Fair enough; so am I. But it's an election year, and if we want to have fights for offshore drilling (see also this) and investigations into possibly tainted mortgage legislation and logrolling bad legislation - and, oh, yes, doing their part to make sure we don't actually lose the war - then we actually need to have legislators in there doing the fighting.
So... this is the NRSC's donation page. This is the NRCC's donation page. If you can't bear it, really and truly, here's Senator DeMint's new Senate Conservatives Fund. Failing that, there's always the RNC, or a local race. And, of course, John McCain. There's got to be somebody on that list that you can give money to.
The situation is what it is, folks. And the thing about situations is: it can always get worse. It can always get worse.
Moe Lane
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Posted at 11:02am on Jun. 6, 2008 So I'm putting together a story about May 2008 fundraising.
Just a sort of snapshot.
By Moe Lane
The AP notes that McCain has raised $21.5 million in May, with $31.5 million in the bank; while the RNC has raised $23.5 million, with $53.6 in the bank. So I thought that it might be interesting to see what everybody else's numbers were.
I won't go over the gory details of the telephone calls: suffice it to say that you should reasonably expect the Democratic and Republican legislative groups to reveal their numbers somewhere around the filing deadline. And if the DNC ever gets back to me, they'll probably tell me about the same thing. Not bad phone service from any of the groups that I called up, by the way...
Except for the Obama Presidential campaign, oddly enough. You start with a automated voice messaging system (the Congressional/Senatorial groups have actual people taking the calls; that may be a volume thing, of course); followed up by the standard directory. The oddity, however, is that in five minutes of steadily-bemused calling I couldn't actually get a live person on the phone. The "leave-a-message" canned answers were always followed by a "Messages cannot be recorded," followed by a dial-zero-for-attendant, which led right back to "leave-a-message" - while trying to back into the system by hitting other options led to the all-operators-are-busy-please-call-back-later. The one exception I found to this was their contributions line, which gave the option to leave a message, which did work - or, at least, I got a beep. And, of course, the system took every opportunity to send people to the website, which (to me, at least) is corporate shorthand for "We don't actually want to talk to you." By contrast, John McCain 2008 connected me to an actual human being within one minute.
Not to be mean or anything, but I'm guessing that there's a certain difference in priority levels there.
Moe Lane
PS: I'm going to guess that the DNC / Obama folks release their numbers in a few weeks. Whether or it's going to be on a day with a natural disaster going on somewhere else is a question that each person must ask him- or herself.
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Posted at 11:32pm on Apr. 12, 2008 REDSTATE ROUNDTABLE #6: Should Conservatives Donate To The RNC, NRSC and NRCC?
Earthen Vessels.
By Dan McLaughlin
Dan McLaughlin: In today's campaign finance environment, you can support Republican candidates for public office in one of five ways (correct me if I am missing something here):
1. You can give to them directly through traditional fundraising.
2. You can identify and direct donations to particular candidates through web intermediaries like Rightroots, Big Red Tent, and Slatecard.
3. You can give to the formal party apparatus - the Republican National Committee (RNC), National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), or National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) - which then distribute funds to candidates as needed in their own judgment, as well as spending money and running ads for more general party-building activities.
4. You can support a PAC that, in turn, gives money to candidates, although in general that similarly means letting the PAC decide where they money should go.
5. Similarly, you can support advocacy groups (e.g., the Club for Growth) that get involved in campaigns.
Let's focus on #3. A lot of conservatives have been formally or informally boycotting some of these organizations for the past 2-3 years, in some cases due to protests on policy issues (e.g., immigration), but also in some cases due to frustration with the decisions made, most notoriously the NRSC's decision in to pour resources into defending more liberal incumbents in primary challenges by conservatives in Pennsylvana (Arlen Specter in 2004) and Rhode Island (Lincoln Chaffee in 2006), in Chaffee's case in a losing cause that drained away resources that could have been spent in close races in places like Ohio, Montana or Virginia.
The question is: should conservatives give money to these organizations, or some of them, or none?
Roundtable discussion below the fold...
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Posted at 11:30pm on Mar. 6, 2008 POLITICO reports McCain Team at RNC
By saul anuzis
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0308/McCain_begins_to_take_...
March 06, 2008
Read More: McCain
McCain begins to take charge at RNC
The Republican National Committee tomorrow will announce the appointment of three top John McCain loyalists to help coordinate the party's effort with McCain's campaign and to lead the joint voter contact program, according to GOP sources. Also involved in the effort will be Rudy Giuliani's former campaign manager.
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Posted at 8:03am on Dec. 10, 2007 MI Morning Update: NBC Reverses Course, The New Centurion, RNC Drafts Language for Anuzis/Dingell Plan
By saul anuzis
332 Days until Election Day
MORNING UPDATE:
NBC reversed course Saturday and decided to air a conservative group's television ad thanking U.S. troops. See story at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/08/AR200712...
I spoke at the New Centurion’s program in Lansing last week and will be their guest lecturer this week in Grand Rapids. A fresh crop of “trained” conservatives from across the state are getting ready for battle!
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Posted at 3:32pm on Oct. 22, 2007 Nominating contests too early? The RNC might sue!
5 States could be stripped of half their delegates.
By Mark Kilmer
The Republican Party will hold a nominating convention next year from September 1-4 in St. Paul Minnesota. There is a move afoot by some party leaders, however, to strip half the voting delegates from the States of New Hampshire, Florida, South Carolina, Michigan, and Wyoming. Why? They moved their primary dates to earlier than the national peeps want. (Iowa and Nevada wouldn't feel the strong arm of the law, as their caucuses don't really count. They do not bind delegates to votes for any particular candidate at the national convention.)
Under the RNC's action Monday, Florida would lose 57 delegates, Michigan 30, South Carolina 23, Wyoming 14 and New Hampshire 12.
Why are they doing this?
"It's very important that our party uphold and enforce the rules that we unanimously voted into place at the Republican National Convention in 2004," said Mike Duncan, chairman of the Republican National Committee.
The rules ban holding votes before Feb. 5.
The Republican National Committee does not pay for these primaries, but they do try to make rules.
Duncan said there is plenty of legal precedent granting political parties the authority to set their own rules.
"I'm very confident of our legal footing," he said.
So they want to start chucking delegates in a de facto willy-nilly manner, fouling the nominating process, because they do not want a nominating contest when they do not want one?
Read On…
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