Who is the DCCC?

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I got a call from the DCCC. They are asking for $110, which is not a problem for me. I just want to make sure it's money well spent. I probed the caller a bit, and he seems to represent my values, but of course he could also be telling me what I want to hear as well. They have a casual relationship with the DNC (not official) and no affiliation with DFA.

He's sending me a pledge form for January. They are targeting 46 congressional districts where Repugs are vulnerable (which is good), and especially Marylin Musgrave in D4 Colorado (The man-woman marriage amendment lady). They are headed up by Nancy Pelosi and Rahm Emanuel. They say they have a number of Iraq veterans (all pissed off) to run for office in 2006.

He was non-committal on the org's opinions on DLC, and since Joementum is a Senator he couldn't comment on that, but he personally said Holy Joe is an embarassment.

Are they worth donating to? What are some of your thoughts?

http://www.dccc.org/campaignforchange/

[William769]

1. Maybe this wll help asnwer some of your questions.

http://www.dccc.org/campaignforchange/

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3. Same site I linked to.

What a coinkidink..;)

[William769]

19. Ooops sorry, I didn't see you link.

:crazy:

[Pirate Smile]

2. It is the House Democratic Campaign Committee - it is legit.

Rahm Emmanuel is the head of it for 2006.

[Warren Stupidity]

4. I have a problem with Ralph Emmanuel

but that would not stop me from sending money. We need to support Democratic candidates with money, money, money and then more money. I personally put my money in through Dean's DNC Democracy Bonds, mostly because I trust Dean to be independent. I'm not at the point yet of worrying, for the most part, about which Democratic fund raising committee gets my money and which don't, although as the split between the corporate whore faction of the party and the progressive faction of the party grows, it may come to that.

The more we fund the party through individual contributions the more the party will reflect the interests of individuals over corporations. The transition may be painful, but we will regain control over the party.

[Dr.Phool]

12. I told them to stop calling me.

I'll donate money to individual candidates, as I see fit, and who share my progressive values.

I spent several days with them last year, when I was running for Congress, and they promised me the world. As soon as I got back home, nobody would return our phone calls. And a incumbent repuke went unopposed.

I've noticed that they are always on the backside of the curve. They won't talk to a candidate if he hasn't raised X amount of dollars by a certain date. I'm working for a friends campaign right now, that we have a very good shot winning, but we don't expect any help from them.

[katinmn]

15. sounds oh so familiar

Thank you for stepping up to the plate. I admire you for trying to change things.

I just joined a group of progressive campaign volunteers that will share and exchange info on a voluntary basis. Could be very useful as a resource.

Send me a PM if you want more info.

[radio4progressives]

5. Personally, I do not donate to DCCC - It's a DLC PAC

I only donate to DNC and Individual Candidates...

Last spring, i received calls for donations, i asked if any of the candidates DCCC were supporting will be joining and supporting progressive caucus, and the Congressional Black Congress issues and signing on to Out of Iraq petition etc...

could not comment.

then i asked if the funds go to any of the DLC members, and he said yes..

so i said no i will not contribute to the DCCC, I will only give to the DNC and to please take me off the call list.

[MaineDem]

6. "It's a DLC PAC"

Do you have proof of this?

[MrBenchley]

16. No, of course not....

It's got nothing to do with the DLC.

In fact, Murtha is now sending out a fundraising appeal for the DCCC.

[katinmn]

7. I used to give to the DCCC. But then this summer they made donations to a

DINO who was running against a progressive anti-war, pro-choice, civil rights, universal health care Dem candidate. This is before most citizens even knew who was running. The DINO built up a war chest and the progressive dropped out rathert than fight the Democratic Party. So in essence they used my money to help put a Repuke in office.

I won't give them anything except a peice of my mind.

[Moochy]

9. I found this on myDD

I found it interesting:

The chairmanship of the DCCC is an elected position of the House Democratic Caucus. In practice, the chairperson is often nominated by the Democratic Leader and elected by acclaimation -- that is, by unanimous consent -- but there are from time to time contested elections for the seat.

The top operatives are usually installed by the chair, and are drawn from his or her own staff, the staff of the Democratic leadership, etc.

Replacing the chairman would take an act of the Caucus. He's elected by them, and he's responsible to them. Remember also that the DCCC is primarily a Member services organization. It exists to make campaigning easier for its Members, who provide the bulk of its funding in dues they pay directly to the DCCC. To the extent that it helps the Members who pay its dues to elect more Democrats to the House, the DCCC undertakes that role.

They would deny it to you if you put it that way, and they'd have a good basis for doing so. But I put it to you that way in order to give you no illusions about what you're up against in terms of trying to change the organization from the outside. Many of those who take it on from the standpoint of outside activists fail to take this into account. The organization is of, for and by incumbent House Democrats, and traditional outside agitation doesn't have the impact there that it's often expected to have on, say, the personal offices of individual House Members. by Kagro X on Sun Nov 27th, 2005 at 01:42:37 PM EDT

http://mydd.com/story/2005/11/26/10518/707

[oasis]

11. Who were the two candidates involved?

[katinmn]

13. sent you a pm

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14. Hey! I asked the original question.

Where's my PM?:cry:

[katinmn]

17. LOL That wasn't your OP question!

But if you want to know, I will tell you. :)

[Pirate Smile]

8. Here is an article on Rahm Emanuel since you are going to hear

why some people like him and some don't.

From Rolling Stone:

The Enforcer
Rep. Rahm Emanuel is leading the Democratic charge to retake the House next year. Will his old-school combativeness rub off on his more timid colleagues?

The Republicans are on the ropes. There's House Majority Leader Tom DeLay: indicted for conspiracy and money laundering. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist: under investigation for insider trading. The White House's chief procurement officer: arrested on corruption charges. The head of FEMA: forced to resign in disgrace. Even President Bush himself: approval ratings at an all-time low. The question is, will the Democrats be able to take advantage of the mess the GOP has made?
The answer depends, in many ways, on Rep. Rahm Emanuel of Chicago.

For years, Emanuel was the political brains of Bill Clinton's White House. Intense to the point of ferocity, he was known for taking on the most daunting tasks -- the ones no one else wanted -- and pulling off the seemingly impossible, from banning assault weapons to beating back the Republican-led impeachment. "Clinton loved Rahm," recalls one staffer, "because he knew that if he asked Rahm to do something, he would move Heaven and Earth -- not necessarily in that order -- to get it done."

Now, as head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), Emanuel has taken on his biggest challenge yet: to win back the House of Representatives after more than a decade of Republican control. To pull it off, the two-term congressman will have to overcome odds far greater than those the GOP faced when Newt Gingrich engineered his historic takeover in 1994. Back then, according to a study by the National Committee for an Effective Congress, 117 seats were "marginal" -- that is, close enough to be considered competitive. Last year, thanks in large part to Republican-friendly redistricting, the number of close races shrank to only thirty-four.

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Other Clinton veterans are even more pointed about Emanuel's assets. "He's got this big old pair of brass balls, and you can just hear 'em clanking when he walks down the halls of Congress," says Paul Begala, who served with Emanuel on Clinton's staff. "The Democratic Party is full of Rhodes scholars -- Rahm is a road warrior. He's just what the Democrats need to fight back."

Friends and enemies agree that the key to Emanuel's success is his legendary intensity. There's the story about the time he sent a rotting fish to a pollster who had angered him. There's the story about how his right middle finger was blown off by a Syrian tank when he was in the Israeli army. And there's the story of how, the night after Clinton was elected, Emanuel was so angry at the president's enemies that he stood up at a celebratory dinner with colleagues from the campaign, grabbed a steak knife and began rattling off a list of betrayers, shouting "Dead! . . . Dead! . . . Dead!" and plunging the knife into the table after every name. "When he was done, the table looked like a lunar landscape," one campaign veteran recalls. "It was like something out of The Godfather. But that's Rahm for you."

Of the three stories, only the second is a myth -- Emanuel lost the finger to a meat slicer as a teenager and never served in the Israeli army. But it's a measure of his considerable reputation as the enforcer in Clinton's White House that so many people believe it to be true. You don't earn the nickname "Rahmbo" being timid.

In person, Emanuel projects the hyperactivity of an attack dog straining at the leash. Although he swims and works out several mornings each week before most of his colleagues are out of bed, the exercise evidently does little to drain his energy -- he is constantly fidgeting, gesturing, spinning, always on the move. He's notorious for driving those around him mercilessly: When he joined Clinton's campaign team, he reportedly introduced himself by standing on a table and yelling at the staff for forty-five minutes. "We joke that someone should open a special trauma ward in Washington for people who've worked for Rahm," says Jose Cerda, a veteran staffer. Emanuel, who was reared in the rough-and-tumble world of Chicago politics, makes no apologies for his style. "If I got worried about that, I'd sit beneath my desk all day," he says. "I don't."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/8091986?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single7&rnd=1131965613515&has-player=unknown

Make up your own mind on Rahm and the DCCC. I've given. I want to win back the House.

[oasis]

10. If the Dems win back the House in 2006 Chimpy faces impeachment.

:bounce:

[AntiCoup2K4]

18. Do you think the DLC'ers will vote for Chimpeachment?

If they are afraid to oppose (or financially obligated to support) the Monkey now, what makes you think having DINO's chair the committees will change anything?

Since the Republicans are self destructing due to their own corruption. what better time then to go for the turnover with the BEST candidates possible. The way these DLC controlled committees are trying to force progressive candidates out is something I find most disturbing.