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amborin

(16,631 posts)
Fri May 6, 2016, 02:40 AM May 2016

Politico: Hillary forces target Bush donors

So it's on full display that Hillary represents Bush values:


Hillary forces target Bush donors

NEW YORK -- Hillary Clinton’s supporters in recent days have been making a furious round of calls to top Bush family donors to try to convince them that she represents their values better than Donald Trump, multiple sources in both parties told POLITICO.

The moves come as Clinton and the Democratic Party try to take advantage of deep unease among establishment Republicans on Wall Street and elsewhere with Trump’s emergence as the presumptive Republican nominee.

Top targets for the Clinton team include people like Woody Johnson, Jeb Bush’s former finance chair and the owner of the New York Jets. In recent days, Bush’s brother and father, former presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, have said they plan to skip Trump’s nominating convention.

One person close to Clinton said supporters of the former secretary of state drew up a list of Wall Street donors who supported Jeb Bush and other unsuccessful Republican candidates

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/hilary-clinton-bush-donors-222872#ixzz47r56SfMf
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Politico: Hillary forces target Bush donors (Original Post) amborin May 2016 OP
I thought she was too liberal for the right? snowy owl May 2016 #1
It really is a big tent, not much of a view from under the stands. Autumn May 2016 #2
They are all birds in the same nest. pangaia May 2016 #3
True Dragonfli May 2016 #5
She has Republican values, no disputing it. HooptieWagon May 2016 #4
Well, they are her more natural allies than the Left Wing. /nt Dragonfli May 2016 #6
Well, it's not like she wouldn't protect their interests. CharlotteVale May 2016 #7
She's targeting her base now. nt silvershadow May 2016 #8
Exactly. She considers the nomination in the bag and is reverting to her true form. Lizzie Poppet May 2016 #9
Yes, but she doesn't have the nomination locked down & it will be contested amborin May 2016 #12
One hopes. Lizzie Poppet May 2016 #13
But those damn Independents wanting to vote in primaries... TCJ70 May 2016 #10
KnR me b zola May 2016 #11

snowy owl

(2,145 posts)
1. I thought she was too liberal for the right?
Fri May 6, 2016, 02:44 AM
May 2016

I guess being an "establishment" candidate trumps liberal. Establishment is one big club.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
3. They are all birds in the same nest.
Fri May 6, 2016, 02:54 AM
May 2016

Every few years they just divide up the issues and put on a fake wrestling match..

 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
4. She has Republican values, no disputing it.
Fri May 6, 2016, 03:23 AM
May 2016

Crickets from the Camp Bansalot crowd....you'd think they would be cheering Hillarys 'evolution'.

 

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)
9. Exactly. She considers the nomination in the bag and is reverting to her true form.
Fri May 6, 2016, 07:49 AM
May 2016

Well...the the degree that Princess Weathervane has a true form.

TCJ70

(4,387 posts)
10. But those damn Independents wanting to vote in primaries...
Fri May 6, 2016, 07:54 AM
May 2016

...messing everything up! Right? Can't be cozying up to them...

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