{"id":180812,"date":"2016-12-24T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/12\/24\/you-had-one-job\/"},"modified":"2016-12-24T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T02:13:00","slug":"you-had-one-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/12\/24\/you-had-one-job\/","title":{"rendered":"You Had One Job!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It appears that the big donors people who donated over a billion dollars to the Clinton campaign are demanding answers about how it all went pear shaped<\/a>:<\/p>\n

When Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine greet the very top fundraisers and donors to their failed campaign at New York\u2019s Plaza Hotel on Thursday evening, many of them will have one question in mind: Where\u2019s the autopsy?<\/span>

<\/span> The call for a deep and detailed accounting of how Clinton lost a race that she and her donors were absolutely certain she\u2019d win didn\u2019t begin immediately after the election \u2014 there was too much shock over her defeat by Donald Trump, and overwhelming grief. Her initial conference call with top backers, which came just days after the outcome, focused primarily on FBI Director Jim Comey\u2019s late campaign-season intervention.<\/span>

<\/span> But in the weeks since, the wealthy Democrats who helped pump over $1 billion into Clinton\u2019s losing effort have been urging their local finance staffers, state party officials, and campaign aides to provide a more thorough explanation of what went wrong. With no dispassionate, centralized analysis of how Clinton failed so spectacularly, they insist, how can they be expected to keep contributing to the party?<\/span>

<\/span> \u201cA lot of the bundlers and donors still are in shock and disbelief by what happened. They\u2019re looking for some introspection and analysis about what really happened, what worked and what didn\u2019t,\u201d said Ken Martin, chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and a top campaign bundler himself. “It may take some time to do that, but people are still just scratching their heads.”<\/span>

<\/span> Or, in the words of a Midwestern fundraiser who\u2019s kept in touch with fellow donors, \u201cA lot of people are saying, \u2018I\u2019m not putting another f%$#ing dime in until someone tells me what just happened.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here are a few of my suggestions for rules  to follow in an “autopsy”:<\/p>\n

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  1. Make sure that the incompetents lose their jobs and have to find a career outside of politics<\/li>\n
  2. See rule number 1.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As to outcomes, I hope that Clinton machine is extracted root and branch from the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

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      It appears that the big donors people who donated over a billion dollars to the Clinton campaign are demanding answers about how it all went pear shaped: When Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine greet the very top fundraisers and donors to their failed campaign at New York\u2019s Plaza Hotel on Thursday evening, many of 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":[853,807,799,823],"class_list":["post-180812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-campaign-finance","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-politics","tag-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180812"}],"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=180812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}