Who's Afraid of Hillary Clinton? MoveOn?

[Karmadillo]

Solomon asks whether MoveOn will poll its membership to see if there's support for an endorsement of Clinton or Tasini. So far, it appears they won't. He also notes that the Progressive Democrats of America have already endoresed Tasini.

http://www.counterpunch.com/solomon08142006.html

How MoveOn Finesses the War on Her Behalf
Who's Afraid of Hillary Clinton?
By NORMAN SOLOMON

The leading pro-war Democrat in the Senate is hoping for a landslide in the New York primary next month. And unless progressives quickly mobilize to dent her vote total, she's likely to get it.

Hillary Clinton, of course, intends to be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2008. But first there's her quest to win big for reelection. If antiwar voters cut into Clinton's percentage in the primary on Sept. 12, despite overwhelming media visibility and a massive campaign war chest, her momentum would take a hit.

After Sen. Joe Lieberman lost to antiwar challenger Ned Lamont in Connecticut's Democratic primary last week, I thought some more about the fast-approaching Senate race in New York, where anti-war candidate Jonathan Tasini will be on the ballot next to Clinton.

Tasini, a former president of the National Writers Union, is more strongly and consistently antiwar than Lamont. And Tasini is an all-around progressive on issues from trade to economic justice to health care to the Middle East. But his campaign is underfunded. In contrast, the very wealthy Lamont self-financed his campaign with a few million dollars.

One of the biggest boosts to Lamont's primary campaign came from MoveOn.org, which polled its membership in Connecticut and found a large majority in favor of endorsing Lamont. The MoveOn endorsement brought more funding and people-power energy to the campaign against Lieberman.

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[acmejack]

1. A DUer posted Moveon's reply to this very question yesterday.

The respondent, a volunteer, claimed there just wasn't the "extraordinary" level of interest that Lamont evoked.

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[acmejack]

2. So the short answer is YES!

[katinmn]

3. Everyone write MoveOn and tell them to endorse Tasini!

http://www.actionforum.com/forum/index.html?forum_id=266

Unfortunately, the only way to make comments is to post it on an unweildy forum with 23000 suggestions. Then you are supposed to agree or disagree with each suggestion. I am surprised they are still using this useless mechanism for input.

[noonwitch]

4. Hillary Clinton has the same stands on issues as my senator (Levin)

She is not a conservative, the way Lieberman is. I loved the way she grilled Rumsfeld not too long ago.

A lot of senators voted for the war based on the intelligence they were shown. I criticize the people who fudged the intelligence for that.

I'm sure the dems of NY will decide the primary based on what they want from a senator, not who some website endorses.

[Stephanie]

5. That's no excuse. 23 Senators voted agaiinst the IWR. Why didn't she?

Millions of us marched in the streets, all over the world. Our best Senators voted against the IWR. Everybody saw through it. I did. I bet you did too.

And it's true, she is not a conservative. She's a hawkish centrist who does not reflect the views of New York Democrats.


http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00237#position

NAYs ---23
Akaka (D-HI)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Chafee (R-RI)
Conrad (D-ND)
Corzine (D-NJ)
Dayton (D-MN)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Graham (D-FL)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Reed (D-RI)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Wellstone (D-MN)
Wyden (D-OR)