Hillary Clinton spends $19 million, hires hundreds

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By LISA LERER and JULIE BYKOWICZ

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton has spent nearly $19 million and has hired hundreds of staff during the first three months of her presidential campaign.

That's according to information released by her campaign in advance of a fundraising report she'll file later Wednesday with federal regulators. In total, Clinton raised more than $46 million from more than 250,000 contributors.

Clinton's spending underscores her early effort to build a national campaign, even as aides say she's focused on the primary contest. Beyond paying salaries for 343 new employees, her campaign purchased lists of voters in four early voting states and spent heavily on building up a digital team.

Her campaign also released a list of campaign bundlers, donors who each raised more than $100,000 for Clinton.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/753f6bc37a334c7f9e0167172a854b1d/hillary-clinton-spends-19-million-hires-hundreds

[Ed Suspicious]

1. It's the Clinton jobs plan.

She's like the Yankees to Bernie's K.C. Royals.

[tazkcmo]

30. Nice analogy.

I love both the Royals' return to MLB and Sen. Sanders' platform/integrity.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. They all put $$$$$ first and foremost in their minds

You can't get elected and can't be a professional politician in this day and age unless you collect wads of money from "bundlers". I hate this day and age.

[whereisjustice]

3. "spent heavily on building up a digital team..." they're working on a virtual reality app

that makes her appear to give a shit about the US middle class.

She's got all the best engineers in India working on it.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

5. Obviously, whatever Hillary's doing, it's not working; she better hire hundreds more.

I wonder how many Bernie has hired?

[pnwmom]

7. Bernie better hire a lot more. You can't run a campaign without staffers in all 50 states.

And her favorability ratings haven't been touched by Bernie so far. His have increased to the 60's without hurting hers at all -- she still gets favorability ratings by Democrats in the 80's.

[peacebird]

23. Bernie is getting people organizing in all 50 states without having to pay for it.

There are meetups occuring tonight, phone conference last night, actions to get voters signed up.... People are using Meetup, FaceBook groups, Reddit, and twitter to organize in their towns.

It's pretty amazing

[brooklynite]

24. Tell us, how many hours are those MeetUp volunteers working?

Because you need people working pretty much full time to cover organizing in a large State, and usually, they need to earn a living.

[peacebird]

25. Unless they happen to be retired already, like I am. Or young and energetic after work!

But hey, if it makes you happy to be Debbie Downer, go for it!

[brooklynite]

26. I repeat - how many hours?

Your volunteering is admirable. But I don't think you understand the scale of the job, particularly when you're facing 10 States at once.

[peacebird]

28. How many hours are Hillary's $19 million buying? I have worked to get D's elected for over 30 years

I have a really good idea of the sort of commitment it takes.

But, hey, thanks SO MUCH for your concern!

[hatrack]

35. What a great way to start my Thursday - thank you!

[peacebird]

36. :)

My pleasure!

[tazkcmo]

31. 42. n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. How many six figure sycophants are included in that?

[KansDem]

6. Hell, for six figures I'd be a sycophant!

(I'd have to look the word up first, but I'd be it!}

[DemocratSinceBirth]

37. I can tell you it's a ugly sexist slur and I did it in nine hundred ninety two words...

I can tell you it's a ugly sexist slur and I did it in 992 words less than 1000.

[misterhighwasted]

9. Yes. Team Hillary is going up against the GOP billionaire boys club

$20 MILL is pocket change to them.

Glad her Team is taking 2016 seriously & realizes the high stakes.
We have one shot at putting in place Hillary's policies based on her basic principle of Equal Rights are Human Rights.

$20 MILL is nothing to the GOP.
But to those who also know that Hillary's policies, based on her knowing that a fair & functioning society can only be achieved through equal rights, the $$ to bring Hillary to the White House is irrelevant when considering the high stakes of this game.
Team Hillary well knows what they are doing & I will never question monetarily, how they achieve the goal in the end.
The stakes are too high this time around.
I say go for it.
Kudos to Team Hillary for playing a very smart game against the Right Wing who views everyone as "beneath them."
I approve of the $ 20MILL.
Thank You

EQUAL RIGHTS are HUMAN RIGHTS
Hillary Clinton

Campaign 2016
("It's equality, stupid&quot

[Thinkingabout]

16. We know it is going to take lots of money to fund a campaign for presidency. Anyone who thinks

there is not a need for big funding needs to do some research on how much campaigns cost. Elizabeth Warren spent $42 million to get elected Senator from one state, running for president is in fifty states. Hillary is serious about her candidacy, her supporters are serious and we intend to do the necessary work to get Hillary elected.

[freshwest]

19. Koch brothers have pledged about a billion to the GOP; and others have also. They will be buying up

airtime and television time to whip up the faithful. And we certainly see it here on the net, those dollars yield votes. Or not voting by constant RFing. Bernie has just got himself a PAC going now, with some big money donors. We'll see who captures the heart of America.

[1StrongBlackMan]

27. Was it Sun Tzu, or Rove that said:

"Cast your enemy's strength as a weakeness"?

[freshwest]

21. Excellent post! n/t

[sufrommich]

10. Good. nt

[okasha]

12. Sanders is coming to Texas next week.

He's going to Dallas and Houston, which means he's looking for donors, not voters among the Democratic base. There's lots of libertarian cash floating around in both cities. This should be interesting.

[misterhighwasted]

14. Expect his Guns & Jesus speech will be polished & ready

Speak to the audience.

[okasha]

17. Both cities have large Hispanic and African- American populations,,

and both have thriving LGBT and arts communities. Ideal for Democrats, in many ways. But they're both dominated by corporations and international trade, and are home to some of the wildest of wild right-wing nut jobs. Sanders "natural' audience here would be university students, but dead-of-summer is the off season for them.

If he were looking just for a show of support, Austin would be his prime Texas destination.

[freshwest]

20. You know what was nice... When I grew up there, Big H was liberal with a big L. Everything you say

is right on target. I lived for many years in Zone 6. Now the state has changed so much, and Big H has changed so much that everytime I visit I'm freaked. You can't go home anymore, as the saying goes.

[tazkcmo]

32. Me too but not Houston.

Dallas, San Antonio, El Paso.

[freshwest]

18. Houston has a lot of liberals still left, but the suburbs are... revolting. Dallas once had a

halfway liberal taste but don't know about them right now. But big money will be there.

It won't be a guns and Jesus speech, I predict it will be something else... What in the world it'll be, I don't know.

The state has undergone a massive social experiment from the RW and Libertarians. They're giving everything to corporations, everything.

What kind of message will appeal to the Democrats there, or even Libertarians, I can't imagine but he has drawn crowds in small venues in Austin.

The state I grew up in is now unrecognizable to me. But we can't afford to lose Texas. More Texans voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012, despite the tidal wave of RW propaganda they live under, than in many blue states.

The GOP are scared to death of a Democratic win in Texas, and have said if it happens, there will never be another Texan president. No, wait, they said there would never be another GOP president, period.

Maybe he'll go for the votes of the Libertarians on the NSA, pot, stuff like that. People I know down there are starting to favor legalization. But all the women I know there, Anglo and Hispanic, are for HRC.

[Thinkingabout]

29. Harris County voted Democrat in the past two presidential elections and in 2008 a lot of Republican

judges lost their positions and then wanted to stop the straight line voting. It was a big shock to them. Actually whites are less than 50% in Harris County and I did not realize how the minorities was voting but listened from my position as a precinct clerk and they were there to vote for Obama.

[DURHAM D]

13. Excellent.

[olddots]

22. I might vote for her for 19 million dollars

naw ....make it 20 million...


can I say this ?

[Nitram]

33. Go for it, Hillary!

[Ed Suspicious]

34. All that money spent when good positions on good policy would have gotten the job done at a

fraction of the cost.

[Corey_Baker08]

38. Why Is It Nobody Made An Issue Of The 100's Of Millions Obama Raised?

It seems to be a hypocritical double standard when it comes to Hillary Rodham Clinton's Campaign for Presidency...

To those of you who support Senator Bernie Sanders, I CHALLENGE YOU TO LIFT YOUR CANDIDATE UP AS OPPOSED TO TEARING HILLARY CLINTON DOWN!!!
:-

[Beacool]

40. They must think that their candidate will win by only using spit and gum.

I guess that they are so pure that money is not required. They must live in a parallel universe. Meanwhile, back on Earth, the Republican big donors are already pouring millions into their PACs. If we don't raise an equivalent amount of money our side will be in trouble.

Hillary is establishing the infrastructure needed to combat the Republican nominee. It would be foolish not to do so.

[Beacool]

39. So?

Running presidential campaigns cost a lot of money. When all is said and done, more than a billion dollars will be spent by each party.