Hackett for Dann?!?
I attended the grand opening of the new Butler County Democratic Party HQ last night and Paul Hackett was the keynote speaker. In beginning his remarks, he told the overflow crowd that he was here on behalf of Marc Dann who sent his regards.
Hackett never mentioned Dann or the AG's race again, but did mention that Ted Strickland is someone we absolutely had to get elected for the sake of our children and grandchildren.
I'll write more about the Butler County meeting later, but does anyone know if Hackett endorsed Dann and I missed it? Or am I reading too much into the fact that Hackett said he was there on behalf of Dann?
So confused......
"You better get politics or politics will get you" - my grandmother
. . . but I know Paul . . . and if Dann called him a half hour before the event and said "say hi to everyone and tell them I am sorry I can't be there" . . . that is exactly what Hackett would do.
I guess it's also possible that Dann the original keynote speaker, and Paul was a fill-in . . . call me crazy, but that's what you said he said?
But I thought Hackett was the keynote all along. I actually had to write it down right then because I was kind of floored.
Dann has been non-existent in SW Ohio. Seriously, if anyone knows he's been down this way, please let me know when cause I've seen no presence from him here.
I should also note that the Democrats had literature from every possible campaign, but one. Guess which one? Think trade and radiologists.....
Trust me, there's still a simmer hatred of Brown over the Hackett issue in Butler and Warren County. And Hackett appearing at these events doesn't erase their memory of that.
In fact, one of the candidates for State Central Committeeman specifically mentioned what the party did to Hackett as a reason for his candidacy. If Brown has sent materials to them, they probably wound up in the round file.
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Well, I thought it was odd that he would first mention that he was there for Dann, but then never mention the campaign. I could see he felt a little awkward and wanted to move on as quickly as possible.
He still hasn't missed a step. He had that audience absolutely in the palm of his hand.
I also asked him what he thought about being the Elvis of the 2d District. Apparently, he hasn't seen the Elvis-Nixon/Hackett-Parker photo comparison. So, I pretty much bombed right in front of him quite spectacularly.
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i'm pretty shocked at chandra's complete lack of fundraising, but i think that's because i'm getting most of my information on this race from this blog. any thoughts on this being a rather small echo chamber? i know this will set staff into a tizzy, but it appears that there is little support for the chandra candidacy, at least as far as donations stands proxy for support. here, i though he was going to be the obama of ohio, and it doesn't even look like he'll pick up 1/3 of the vote in a primary that's less than 2 weeks away. what gives?
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If you look to the whole report, you'd see that the two campaigns financially are pretty equal. I think this has to do more with Dann stepping up his fundraising and his campaign since January.
Chandra raised almost $180k by the end of January. For some reason, his fundraising has really dropped off since then, and I don't know why.
We are a small echo chamber, but that's because we're a relatively new community in a relatively new medium for getting information. And let's face, Ohio politics ain't that hot to most people.
Subodh has excited people. I see little old ladies who think he is GREAT. He is a well-disiplined candidate, he gives that SAME damn speech 6 times a day every day, and he does it well.
I don't know if he will beat Dann. But if you DO wnat him to win, you people should be out PROMOTING him instead of wringing you hands and whining. Yes, he needs more money. They almost ALWAYS need more money, espicially if they are truely a 'grass-roots' campaign.
But it's not ALL about the moo-la if you are not a top of the ticket candidate. Ask Russo, he helped on a race that was outspent 5-1 and still won.
If Subodh can get up on the air . . . and by air . . . hell man . . . radio is a lot cheaper than TV . . . AND get some mail into the right people's hands with the right message . . . AND get his people on every street corner to do GOTV election weekend . . . He will win.
And whoop tee doo . . . we will have a Democrat win a Democratic Primary . . . and the question still is . . . can SC win a General Election? Note: He's brown.
In my mind - that is the LIBERAL question here . . . can Ohio . . . the PEOPLE of Ohio . . . the I's and the R's . . . vote for a man with brown skin?
Chandra blows every other candidate I have ever seen out of the water. If not him, who? If not now, when? Being for equality and justice begins at home. Best man for the job and it's hard to argue that Chandra is that.
Personally I think that Chandra is just the type of dynamic candidate that can take on someone like Montgomery. His ethnicity will be an asset because it will draw cameras to him, just like Hackett's veteran status drew cameras to him. He needs free air time to win, so why not play off it? Media needs an interesting hook and Chandra's certainly got that.
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won't not vote for a guy because of the color of his skin (double negative intended). if chandra can get his message out, people will vote for him. he'll need money to do that. but if he can get that money, i think he stands a good chance. question: where is the money? josh mandel is running a freaking state house race and has close to $250,000 on hand!
is there any polling on this race?
What are you, the DCCC?
You won't make a move until you see proof on paper that it is worth your time?
You want a poll? Here it is:
Dann is winning. And he will be winning. He will be ahead every day. But that does not matter. It matter who is ahead ON election day.
If you need a poll to tell you that . . . I am sure the DCCC is looking for a Deputy Assistant Press Secretary to organize interns.
Now all I'm missing is this:
that one on the right.
I've been hearing alot of great things about Chandra, so I went to see him speak for the first time last night. He was every bit the motivational speaker that everyone had told me about. Like AmberCat, the only people I've heard talk about Marc Dann are Democratic Party people and a few people who awarded Dann the Backbone Award last year. I have to say that my support is swinging from Dann to Chandra.
But generally, when someone is at a political event on behalf of a candidate, they tend to think of that person as a supporting surrogate for the campaign. I think some people may have gotten the impression, as I did, that Hackett was supporting Dann.
It didn't help the confusion that State Rep. Catherine Barrett was there on behalf of the Strickland campaign, and she has endorsed Strickland. Incidentially, she is also a victim of democratic party "hacketting," but has handled the situation really well.
So, I think that would add to people's impression that Hackett was also supporting Dann. Thanks for the clarification, and doing the grunt work in looking into it.
I never even knew Dann was invited to be the keynote. It's kind of odd since our county party chairman has already endorsed Chandra. The party itself never took up the issue of endorsement, but if it had, Chandra clearly would have won the endorsement, I think.
Normally, though, you don't act for a surrogate for a campaign unless you are supporting that candidate. Thus, my confusion because Hackett really didn't mention the race beyond what you described.
Prior comments cleared up my confusion. I'm just used to thinking of surrogates as supporters. It probably didn't hurt Dann to have Hackett mention him though. Noticed the Butler Cnty. HQ had no Brown materials whatsover.