Former Clinton Campaign Manager and DNC Chair Endorses Kerry

[Nicholas_J]

Kerry and Wilhelm Hold Discussion with Chicago Small Business Owners
September 16, 2003

Chicago -

Former Clinton Campaign Manager and DNC Chair David Wilhelm endorsed John Kerry for President today, during a discussion the two men held with Chicago small business owners about how to best fuel small business growth and provide health insurance through tax credits and tax cuts for middle-class Americans. Wilhelm will head up the campaign’s efforts in Illinois.

Wilhelm, president of Wilhelm & Conlon Public Strategies, previously managed Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, and subsequently served as the chair of the Democratic National Committee, the youngest person ever to do so. He has also directed the 1989 and 1991 campaigns of Mayor Richard M. Daley, as well as the 1984 campaign of Senator Paul Simon. He has served at the head of Wilhelm & Conlon since its founding in 1998.

Wilhelm and Kerry, longtime proponents of small business interests, spent the afternoon talking with small business owners about ways to provide affordable health insurance to employees through tax credits, and discussed why it is vital to support hardworking families through middle-class tax cuts. Senator Kerry, ranking member and former Chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee and once a small business owner himself, knows that the best way to bring prosperity back to America is by supporting small businesses in their efforts to provide affordable health care and help hardworking middle class families by refusing to raise their taxes.

“I am honored to receive David Wilhelm’s endorsement and to have him join this campaign. David is not only a political leader, but a prominent business leader, and he knows what it takes to fuel growth and support hardworking middle-class Americans. David Wilhelm knows how to beat a Bush in the White House, he knows we can do it again, and I am honored to have him leading up our team in Illinois,” said John Kerry.

http://www.johnkerry.com/news/releases/pr_2003_0915c.html

[virtualobserver]

1. I guess that locks up the nomination for Kerry......

it's all over folks.

[molly]

2. Great news!!!

[ed_vadem]

3. Kerry will need alot of "insiders" like Whilhem behind him in order

to get a grip on the Convention and hold on long enough to out wit Dean. Needless to say, this is one little bit of good news that the Kerry campaign really needed.

It wont help him much in any of the primaries or caucuses, however.

Additionally, Whilhelms influence has probably faded quite a bit in the last few years.

ON EDIT See thread above on Fienstein endorsement. Kerry is have a really good day

[goobergunch]

4. Former DNC chair...

that means he's a superdelegate! I'm assuming he's from Illinois.

[Nicholas_J]

5. Yup

Super Delegate. Isnt Feinstein as well.

Kerry seems to be doing very very well in rounding up super delgates recently, I beleive.

[goobergunch]

6. Yep...I've got a thorough count on my website

http://www.freewebs.com/goobergunch/pdem.html <--updated

He got 2 superdelegates today.

[molly]

8. Hey - great website!

[goobergunch]

9. Thanks

I haven't updated anything but the delegate count since August, though...watch the Lounge for when I finally do.

[blm]

10. Why the Lounge?

It seems exactly like the perfect type of P&C post?

[virtualobserver]

7. he needs super delegates

since he trails in all of the state polls.

Well, I guess he must have Massachusetts nailed down.

[Northwind]

11. I'll see you

Kerry's Washington insider and raise you Dean's 400,000 regular Americans.

[Octafish]

12. Small businesses create more jobs than Big Business.

The big companies are the ones sending jobs overseas. The little companies hire here at home.

Something else: Kerry knows people who know what to do about creating high paying jobs here. They're called liberal economists.