one to a coworker and then donating that to HRC.

Any truth to the word that HRC’s debt needs to be paid down by 6/14 in order for her name to be on the ballot? Sounds crazy, but, maybe it’s crazy enough to be true.

I love this job!

:v)

I love this job!

With this rumor flying around that the DNC has set a deadline to retire her debt, or they won’t allow her to be on the convention ballot?

And BTW, WTF is up with the fact that Clinton’s name on the ballot is up for negotiation!

Bill Clinton for First Dude!!!

… which is fine with me — I wish somebody would donate a Hillary T-shirt to me, hint hint — but it looks like the rumor starts here, and posts that start “somebody just confirmed” are so PB 1.0….

[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

One of the things I really love about you - your wit.(see title of this post)

Now that MJS is sojourning in Oregon, we’ve been missing that particular virtue somewhat. Not that anyone could ever replace MJS. But thank-you for your VastLeftness.

I should also mention the Farmer, who brought wit, yocks, belly laughs, and great passion to a place called Corrente. He was annoyed by the fact that I recently made a reference to “Corrente, when it still had blogspot in its URL,” since that place still exists and he still posts there. No one expected that to be true, when the discussions were taking place about moving Corrente from Blogger. But plans get away from us, sometimes. So that old Corrente is still there, and the Farmer is still well worth reading, as many of you know. We do miss him. Alas, the feeling is not reciprocated.

but this post at the blog Alegre quoted might clarify:

To clarify where the Clinton campaign stands on the issue of “deadlines” and retiring Senator Clinton’s debt, I emailed Jonathan Mantz, Senator Clinton’s incredibly hardworking and successful director of finance (head of fundraising) first thing this morning. See the exchange below. There is no more reliable source of information.

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HL Feldman Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:54 AM
To: jmantz.com,
I have been working extremely hard in response to [your] last communication to “top” fundraisers, in which [you] said the campaign is making a big push for donations to retire debt, and that this push was to run through the 15th.

Has the closing date for this “push” changed? I could really use an answer.

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Jonathan Mantz Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:12 AM
To: heidi

No real closing date, we are trying to put a dent into this as quickly as possible. Although the response has been good so far, we have ways to go

Pls keep up all you are doing
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I think what happened is that folks had been told the Clinton campaign was trying to retire the debt by the middle of this month. Which appears to be an arbitrary date.

Separate from that there was a WSJ article that talked about how having a roll call vote was one of the “bones of contention” between Clinton and Obama over the convention.

I think the two of these things got conflated into one big mess. When they are two separate issues.

For those of us who order the short… take pix! (you can blur your face to preserve anonymity) Then we can ask Lambert to make us a photowall and ask Hillary to come visit!

Hillary is entitled to have her name on the ballot. Period. It is her choice. This had nothing to do with debt, with Sen. Obama’s wishes, anyone else’s wishes, etc.

She has enough delegate support so that under the DNC rules, it will be totally her decision whether she wants her name placed in nomination or not.

I just hope Hillary doesn’t mind if we say Fuck….

[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

We already know that she’s classier than us.

i wonder what kind of pressure is being put on state delegates to not split the state roll call thing—

i’m sure they don’t want any state to announce “the great state of West Virginia, who sent JFK to the White House (or whatever), gives 4 delegates to Barack Obama, and 7 to Hillary Clinton.”

i thought it was all about Unity?

aren’t they pressuring her and her supporters to not dare “spoil” the big show?

http://donedems.com/2008/07/10/negotiati…

She reportedly says fuck (a point in her favor, from my pov). There’s been at least one report that she returned from her VRWC Today Show Appearance and said “that’ll teach them to fuck with us.” Heh.