Clinton gets deep-pockets boost from loyalists

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Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer
Wednesday, May 28, 2008


With just three Democratic primaries left and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's chances at her party's nomination increasingly a longshot, determined and deep-pocketed supporters based in San Francisco have launched an effort to keep the New York senator's campaign alive - making a case for counting primary votes in Michigan and Florida.

Susie Tompkins Buell, a longtime friend of Clinton's and - along with her husband, Mark Buell - one of the country's most generous Democratic donors, is one of the forces behind the WomenCount political action committee.

Since its formation earlier this month, the group has spent at least $140,000 to publish full-page ads in newspapers around the country in support of Clinton, according to the organization's papers on file with the Federal Elections Commission.

The committee's ads, headlined "Not So Fast," urge that the votes of women - who make up 51 percent of the American electorate - be fully counted in the 2008 presidential election.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/27/MN7O10U4NC.DTL

[Indenturedebtor]

1. Good for you for posting something positive about HRC. k, n/t

[Warren Stupidity]

2. And what a contrast to the Obama campaign.

The FEC's accounting system has broken down due to the unprecendented number of individual donors to the Obama campaign.