TPM: Another Sign Gore Isn't Running? Key NH Backer Boosts Obama

[flpoljunkie]

Another Sign Gore Isn't Running? Key New Hampshire Backer Boosts Obama

By Eric Kleefeld

Here's another sign that suggests Al Gore may have decided to sit out the Presidential race: One of his longtime supporters has just given a campaign check to another Presidential candidate — apparently with the tacit approval of Gore himself.

The Boston Globe reports reports that Debby Butler, a key Gore backer from New Hampshire and a longtime activist in the state, has sent a check for $1,000 to Barack Obama. The kicker is that according to the Globe, Butler even got in touch with Gore's office and double-checked to see if he would be okay with her making donations to other candidates. The answer, obviously, was Yes.

http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/apr/20/anoter_sign_gore_isnt_running_key_new_hampshire_backer_boosts_obama

[Ninja Jordan]

1. Obama is our only hope at this point.

[hippiechick]

2. Then we're in deep shit.

:(

[Ninja Jordan]

4. Not when the alternative is Hillary.

[flpoljunkie]

5. We're in "deep shit" only if we end up with another Republican president in '08.

[flpoljunkie]

3. Boston Globe: Does this end all questions about Gore in 2008?

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Does this end all questions about Gore in 2008?

Recently released campaign finance records show longtime Al Gore friend and confidant Debby Butler gave $1,000 to Illinois Senator Barack Obama’s campaign.

Butler, a Concord CPA who chaired both inaugural balls for Governor John Lynch and one for former Governor Jeanne Shaheen, was a key player in the Howard Dean presidential campaign in 2004.

Even after attending a Hillary Clinton rally in Concord and calling her “terrific” it appears that Obama is her candidate.

After Gore won the Oscar for his movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," she called Gore’s office just to check in and make sure he wasn’t interested in another run. They told her she was free to go with another candidate.

Posted by James Pindell at 02:36 PM

http://www.boston.com/news/local/politics/primarysource/2007/04/does_this_end_a.html

[kimmerspixelated]

7. Personally, I don't think

it's over till it's over! There are an awful lot of other Gore supporters that will be willing to fork over way more than just a grand.

[Colobo]

6. I hope Gore endorses Obama when the time comes!