{"id":179788,"date":"2017-10-25T22:13:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/25\/headline-of-the-day-64\/"},"modified":"2017-10-25T22:13:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T03:13:00","slug":"headline-of-the-day-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/10\/25\/headline-of-the-day-64\/","title":{"rendered":"Headline of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

The DNC Picked a Bunch of Sleazy Lobbyists as Superdelegates, Can’t Figure out Why No One Is Donating<\/span><\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s an on-point analysis of a rather anodyne story at Politico<\/i> on DNC fund raising panic<\/a>, but there is a few gems of unvarnished truth out there:<\/p>\n

Party officials involved in fundraising say donors repeatedly turn them away with a “try again next year,” especially since it became clear there won’t be an official party autopsy from 2016. Democrat Jon Ossoff’s loss in his much-hyped special congressional election in Atlanta’s suburbs in June has also depressed donor enthusiasm. <\/span>

<\/span>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>

<\/span>DNC members themselves have now been asked to give or raise $1,000 each, some said \u2014 a request people who’ve been around the committee for decades say they can’t remember being made before. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not only the party base, but the big donors are demanding reforms.<\/p>\n

I don’t think that the moneybags wing of the Party are looking to implement a socialist agenda, but I do think that they realize that they spent a huge amount of money on a hapless candidate and a hapless party establishment, and they want to see changes.<\/p>\n

I do not expect to see meaningful changes until dissatisfaction reaches a crescendo, because there are simply too many people who earn a living by mismanaging Democratic party operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The DNC Picked a Bunch of Sleazy Lobbyists as Superdelegates, Can’t Figure out Why No One Is Donating. It’s an on-point analysis of a rather anodyne story at Politico on DNC fund raising panic, but there is a few gems of unvarnished truth out there: Party officials involved in fundraising say donors repeatedly turn them …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[513,588,578,374],"class_list":["post-179788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-campaign-finance","tag-fail","tag-incompetence","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}