Democrats Not Happy With Dean’s Leadership?

Monday, January 30, 2006

Democrats Not Happy With Dean’s Leadership?

By Rob on January 30, 2006 at 06:02 pm

Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill are privately bristling over Howard Dean’s management of the Democratic National Committee and have made those sentiments clear after new fundraising numbers showed he has spent nearly all the committee’s cash and has little left to support their efforts to gain seats this cycle, ROLL CALL reports.

Congressional leaders were furious last week when they learned the DNC has just $5.5 million in the bank, compared to the Republican National Committee’s $34 million.

This is the first I've heard about Dean spending too much of the party's money, but the fact that Democrats have been lagging far behind Republicans in fundraising is hardly a secret.

As I've said several times before: It's hard to inspire people to contribute when the only thing your party's leadership has to offer is "Republicans suck."

Comments

The Democratic National Committee raised more than $51M in 2005, a record for an off-year and twenty percent higher than the comparable period in 2003.

And remember that 2003 wasn’t a “comparable period”. 2001 would be the “comparable period”. Dean’s fundraising, the year after a presidential election (when money traditionally dries up) outpaced the DNC’s fundraising the year before a presidential election (when money opens up). And Dean’s feat is all that much more remarkable considering that he did it all with small dollar donations.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/4/134846/7090

WOOF on January 30, 2006 at 07:02 pm

Leave it to Kos to try & find a way to turn a sow’s ear into a silk purse.

Then again, we could just assume that Kos is an accurate unbiased source of knowledge, whereas Roll Call is a twisted Republican instrument of propaganda.

Carrick on January 30, 2006 at 08:01 pm

[...] Last night I read a post by Oliver Willis where complained about Democrat politicians not making liberal blogs part of their “message machine.” Given the above, it is little wonder mainstream Democrats don’t want to make themselves more beholden to the liberal blogosphere. The liberal bloggers, by an large, are on the fringes of American politics. They are constantly trying to pull the DNC further and further to the left despite every indication (from Howard Dean’s lackluster performance as a fundraiser to the very liberal Kerry’s thumping at the hands of a President who barely beat out the comparatively more conservative Al Gore in 2000) that the American electore lays further to the right. [...]

Say Anything - North Dakota’s Most Popular P on January 30, 2006 at 09:01 pm

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