Hillary Clinton Network To Meet For Strategy Session (November 21, 2014)
The pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC Ready for Hillary is planning a National Finance Council meeting featuring speakers like National Urban League president Marc Morial, former Obama 2012 pollster John Anzalone and longtime Bill Clinton adviser James Carville, according to a save-the-date notice. The event, on Nov. 21, has been billed a strategy session at the Sheraton Times Square in New York City to discuss the next steps as the group and Clinton’s extended network wait for her to say definitively whether she is running for president in 2016.
The speakers and attendees represent a cross-section of the party and of Clintonland, including people involved in other outside efforts to prepare for a potential candidacy. And the event itself comes after two years of Ready for Hillary, the low-dollar super PAC backing Clinton, signing up more than 2.5 million supporters and harnessing energy behind her potential candidacy — helping to freeze the Democratic field in the process. Among those speaking at the day-long affair are Morial, Carville and Anzalone, who worked closely with President Barack Obama’s lead pollster, Joel Benenson, in 2012; and Stephanie Schriock, the president of EMILY’s List who has been mentioned as a potential campaign manager for Clinton. There are two others whose names have been mentioned in the campaign manager race: Ace Smith, a veteran California political operative who worked for Clinton in 2008; and Guy Cecil, the executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, who will both be speaking.
There is also Jonathan Mantz and Buffy Wicks, respectively the financial adviser and executive director for Priorities USA, the high-dollar super PAC backing Clinton. Much of 2013 was characterized by fighting between people associated with Priorities USA and Ready for Hillary, and the involvement of Mantz and Wicks in this year’s Finance Council meeting signals a new level of cooperation as Clinton supporters prepare for a likely transition to the existence of a campaign. There will also be Media Matters founder and Clinton ally David Brock, who launched the pro-Clinton group Correct the Record; Salon.com writer Joan Walsh; Peter O’Keefe, an ally of Clinton friend Terry McAuliffe, the Virginia governor; Karen Finney, a former Hillary Clinton aide and current political strategist; and Ready for Hillary advisers Adam Parkhomenko, Tracy Sefl and Craig Smith.
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