Top Democratic donors (read: donors who buy into Hillary Clinton’s sense of entitlement) issue a warning to Nancy Pelosi:
Shorter version:
Dear Madame Speaker,
Believe and say what we tell you to believe and say or else.
Sincerely,
Money
[From TPM Election Central | Talking Points Memo |]
Here’s a response I would sign:
OK, just sent $100 to BHO, and this letter to Speaker Pelosi, CC’d my Gov and Congressional delegation as well.
Dear Speaker Pelosi-
Thank you for your service to our country, and to the Democratic Party.
I read today with disgust a letter, addressed to you, which can only be interpreted as an attempt to blackmail the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the most powerful woman in the United States. This letter from so-called significant Clinton donors implies their money will dry up if you do not publicly endorse their scheme to throw the Democratic nomination to the candidate with fewer votes, fewer delegates, and the fewest states won. I ask simply that you hold your ground, for the good of the country and our Party.
Perhaps I am especially sensitive to this scheme, as I am a local Party leader in a red state- one of the states that Senator Clinton and her surrogates say doesn’t matter. I am only too aware that a Clinton candidacy will mean no money and no support for my state, while simultaneously punishing Congressional candidates simply for being associated with her toxic campaign.
These tactics are too frequent, too pointed to ignore. For years, I have consoled myself that even in lost campaigns the Democratic Party was fighting for the common people and the common good, for civil rights and economic fairness. Foreign investors do not write our foreign policy, oil corporations do not write our environmental policy, multi-billion dollar corporations do not write our labor policy and tax code, and we do not use the politics of fear and race baiting. This blatant effort by twenty individuals to hijack the nomination process because of their corporate interests, combined with the gut-wrenching tactics of the Clinton campaign, flies in the face of all I have believed of the Democratic Party.
Please help me fight for what’s right, what’s good in this country. Please stand up and defend the millions of us who do not make millions of dollars, who do not have the option to buy our place and the political table, and who don’t happen to live in Democratic strongholds. We matter, too.
Again, many thanks for all your efforts.
Posted by Veronica Corningstone