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By Timothy Cama - 09/22/15 04:32 PM EDT
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton came out Tuesday against the Keystone XL oil pipeline, arguing the debate over its construction was a distraction from efforts to tackle climate change.
September 22, 2015, 03:09 pm
By Jonathan Swan
"In the interest of avoiding what will certainly be a costly litigation process, we are prepared to offer you the one-time opportunity to rectify this matter by providing us with your prompt written assurances that (i) you have stopped running the Attack Ads; and (ii) you will not generate or disseminate any misleading or inaccurate information or make any factually baseless accusations... with respect to my client at any point in the future."
He might as well get used to it they are going to be on him from here on out and there will be nothing fair about it. I do admire his spunk and the fact that he does not back down.
By Jonathan Swan - 09/22/15 03:34 PM EDT
Scott Walker’s wealthiest donors are still in shock after the Wisconsin governor stunned all but a tiny inner circle with his decision to terminate his presidential campaign on Monday evening.
Many, in fact, were in the middle of fundraising efforts for Walker’s super-PAC, convinced that they could raise the money to help him stay in the race. Others, however, saw low attendance at upcoming fundraising events as clues to how much the candidate was struggling.
One of Walker’s major supporters, the Dallas-based biotech investor Chart Westcott, said he first found out about Walker leaving the race through the media.
“I had just got out of a meeting and I got a call from a reporter telling me about it,” said Westcott, who gave $200,000 to the pro-Walker super-PAC Unintimidated.
“All of a sudden the calls just started pouring in. … For me it was just like raining phones.
“I would say it was surprising,” Westcott added. The week before, there was definitely talk of a shake-up inside the campaign, Westcott said, but he thought they could have recovered and he had faith that Walker could be the comeback kid.
Westcott said he had pledged to give more money to the Walker super-PAC and believed that with time, the public would come to understand the governor's unique appeal.
“Walker — his story is not a sound-bite story,” Westcott explained. “It’s a narrative. It’s the story of a guy who tried to shake up his state and faced … a level of vitriol and hatred that’s on a whole other level."
But, Westcott added, the debate format “just doesn’t favor what his strengths were.”
Walker’s major donors did not expect the candidate to withdraw on Monday, and as recently as Sunday, many were calling donors and organizing the next round of fundraising events to replenish the campaign’s dwindling coffers.
A source familiar with Walker’s super-PAC said the outside group — which reported $20 million in its midyear account — was on pace to raise $40 million. That figure was first reported by Politico.
“Was I surprised? Yes,” the source said. “The super-PAC was flush with cash and had just started putting out ads.” The source, who has less exposure to the campaign side, said he had only learned in the past 12 hours the full extent of the financial troubles plaguing the Walker campaign.
Walker and his National Finance Co-Chairman Todd Ricketts had assured Walker’s biggest financial supporters on Thursday that they had a strategy to win, that their campaign team was solid, and that they were in it for the long haul.
During that Thursday donor call, Walker talked the donors through the mathematics of winning Iowa county by county, and Ricketts closed the call by saying that they just needed “enough gas in the Winnebago” to keep going.
Walker’s National Finance Co-Chairman Anthony Scaramucci then spent his weekend on conference calls organizing the next round of pro-Walker fundraising in New York.
Team Walker was planning a series of fundraisers — organized to haul in maximum donations of $2,700, starting with a New York event on Sep. 24 at Ricketts’s apartment in the Time Warner Center, three sources familiar with the event's planning said.
But only 30-40 donors were planning to attend the Ricketts event, which would have been a reasonable attendance for early 2015, but was a bad sign for this stage in a presidential primary, a source said. Another source familiar with the event's planning said he would not dispute that figure but insisted that many more donors could have been rallied between now and Thursday had Walker not dropped out.
A donor event for major Walker supporters at Chicago’s Wrigley Field was also planned.
Scaramucci says he thinks he and his team of bundlers could have raised enough money to keep the campaign going, despite dwindling funds and speculation that Walker was going to have to lay off a number of staff for the campaign to stay solvent.
“Other people wanted him to stay in the race including myself,” Scaramucci said on Tuesday morning. “I think we could have raised some money this week in New York.”
Staying in the race “was something we could do,” added Scaramucci. “We still had money. We still had PAC money,” he said.
Scaramucci said he respected Walker’s decision, which the governor described as a “calling” and a selfless act for the good of the Republican Party — to winnow the field so a principled, optimistic conservative could defeat Donald Trump.
Another of Walker’s donors said that recently it was getting more difficult to raise campaign funds for the Governor as his poll numbers continued to drop.
“The way this works is I can go out to my friends and I can raise you a good amount of money,” the donor said. “Then you have to catch fire and I have to start raising you money from strangers.
“I have got enough affluent friends that will write a check for me. … But you’ve got to go outside of that universe to be successful.”
On Tuesday morning Westcott said he had still yet to hear from Walker but had spoken to many of his fellow Walker donors and advisers, many of whom are planning their next move.
Westcott has not decided who he will support now Walker has dropped out, and says he wants someone "who will completely shake up the status quo in Washington." He said a number of the big Walker donors are going to take a while to reassess the Republican primary race before they fully commit to another candidate.
Another major donor who was waiting to hear from Walker on Tuesday morning was the Minnesota billionaire Stanley Hubbard, who had given $50,000 to the pro-Walker super-PAC.
“I haven’t heard from him yet, I expect I will,” Hubbard said. “I’ll send him a little email and say, ‘Scott I’m really sorry. I’m thinking a lot of people should drop out but I don’t think you should be the one.’
“A lot of [the Republican field] would do a big favor to their country if they would drop out.”
Some within the Walker fundraising network say what they have learned from this is that a well-stocked super-PAC is not enough and that campaign funds — which Walker’s campaign team can control (unlike super-PAC money, which must be spent independently) — are essential, no matter how many millions in outside money a candidate has.
“I think what we have seen and the story in this campaign,” Westcott said, “is that even in the super-PAC age you still need dollars to pay the campaign staff.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/254543-walker-donors-surprised...
September 22, 2015, 12:47 pm
By Jesse Byrnes
Three Republican presidential candidates who have never held elected office are leading the pack in the early-voting state of Iowa, according to a poll released Tuesday.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush holds a campaign town hall meeting at Foss Manufacturing in Hampton, New Hampshire September 3, 2015. REUTERS/Brian SnyderAn Iowa poll released Tuesday by Public Policy polling has Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton remaining in the lead in their respective parties and Jeb Bush as the Republican candidate viewed most unfavorable by Republican voters.
This poll shows a sharp decline for Bush in the Hawkeye state, just a month ago in August PPP had him polling at 11 percent, now he is at 6, his real issue though is with favorablity.
That number makes him the most unfavorable Republican candidate according to the poll.
This Bush just needs to go home, people do not want another spineless Bush in office.
By Jonathan Swan - 09/22/15 08:46 PM EDT
Here comes the Carly train, I will not be getting on.
Last month Hillary Clinton told reporters she deemed 1,200 emails were deemed not work related by herself.
She also refused to say whether or not she wiped her homebrew server clean.
Now this…
The FBI has recovered Hillary Clinton’s personal and work emails.
Breitbart.com reported:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has successfully recovered personal and work emails from Hillary Clinton’s private email server, according to a new report.
Sources told Bloomberg News that some of Clinton’s emails have been extracted from the server, thus disproving the claim that Clinton managed to wipe her server clean after she deleted all of her emails earlier this year.
Therefore, some of the emails that Clinton deleted — the ones that she determined were NOT relevant to federal investigations — are now in the hands of the FBI.
The federal investigation, therefore, is now out of Clinton’s control.
Breitbart News has extensively reported that Clinton’s server, which was managed by a handful of companies including Denver-based Platte River Networks before it was turned over to the FBI in August, might have contained data relevant to the investigation.
Tomorrow might be a good day for Joe Biden to announce his candidacy.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/09/fbi-recovers-hillary-clinto...
They have the emails now who will sort them and what will be done. Will Obama over see the operation? Gotta tell ya I have no faith in the right thing being done!
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