ON THE PROWL
o n T H e P R o W l “He was getting lobbied pretty hard by the Obama people to get democrats in disarray Former Vice President Al Gore chose not to endorse Sen. Barack Obama before Super...
...on board before Super Tuesday, but he just wasn’t going to get involved...
...Things could change, but that’s the way we see it playing out...
...specialist based in New York...
...You didn’t see this kind of behavior when [James] Carville and [Paul] Begala were getting into trouble for their work for Hillary...
...They have opposed Clinton almost from Day One of the campaign...
...John Edwards got out of the primary race...
...Hillary Clinton would offer the bottom of the ticket to Obama or that if asked Obama would accept it...
...But many of those Deaniacs are today Obama supporters, and remain idealistic...
...But while liberals are blasting Bennett for appearing on the air as a “conservative” commentator, they are driving some CNN executives to find the segment producers who may have known about Bennett’s political past and hid it from more senior news staff...
...Just how many kumbaya moments Gore might have to create became clear after former Sen...
...Internal revenue analysis by the city of Pasadena shows that taxpayers there could see as much as a doubling in their communications taxes at the bottom of their phone bills...
...FEC records indicate Bennett gave $2,300 to Sen...
...Bill knows both Clintons and has worked with them, he’s the one everyone will look to for a host of reasons,” says the adviser...
...Barack Obama before Super Tuesday, not out of any loyalty toward the Clintons, but because he didn’t see an upside to getting into the middle of a campaign with so little certainty...
...Bill Richardson and Sen...
...Wired In With an expectation that federal and state legislators will be looking to cut spending in the coming fiscal years, Big Labor—the AFLnational Union, and AFSCME— kept a close eye on local telecom tax initiatives in California on Super Tuesday to determine whether similar initiatives can be pushed out across the country...
...a Very short list Speaking of third bananas, Hillary Clinton’s advisers are having difficulty identifying people they would put on a short list for vice president should Senator Clinton win the nomination...
...Mitt Romney...
...Few if any of his supporters jumped to the Clinton camp, many rushing to Obama, and those who did jump were largely Demo cratic Party establishment types on the state and local levels, not the “true believer” grass roots types Clinton’s campaign could have really used...
...Voters in such California cities as Richmond, Pasadena, and Los Angeles voted February 5 to “modernize” and update decades-old phone utility taxes to include such things as wireless phone texting or music downloads over the Internet...
...I can say this, you know, that being a Southerner, being an American who has been completely devastated by the trade policies of the Clintons, I’m going to do everything in my power to make sure that [Edwards] does not endorse Hillary Clinton,” the Democratic operative Dave “Mudcat” Saunders told NBC News and National Journal...
...We’re looking at everything— hotel taxes, car-rental taxes, cable-TV—anything that can get tacked on to people’s bills in a relatively innocuous and painless way that will get local and state government more money...
...The vice presidency is going to be a different position with former President Clinton’s shadow being cast all over the place,” says a longtime Clinton adviser...
...Some Democrats don’t buy it, pointing to the “healing” that took place among the Deaniacs in 2004 after Howard Dean left the scene...
...Phil Gramm and former Solicitor General Ted Olson, who recently signed on with McCain after supporting former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani for much of the primary season...
...o n T H e P R o W l “Gramm would almost certainly be the nominee for Treasury Secretary in a McCain administration,” says a longtime McCain aide...
...1 4 T H e a M e R I c a n s P e c T a T o R M a R c H 2 0 0 8 “The theory is that someone is going to have to step in and be the great uniter of the party, and Al believes he could be that person,” says another adviser...
...it is not a tax on the phone companies...
...He didn’t see the upside,” says a longtime adviser to Gore...
...Obama is not going to want to play third fiddle to Bill and Hillary Clinton...
...It’s going to take a certain personality type to fill that slot, and we’re still trying identify what that person would be...
...They assume that it must be a conservative plot...
...The phone companies collect the taxes from consumers and pass it through to the local governments...
...It isn’t just phone taxes we’re CIO, Service Employees Inter - looking at,” says an AFL-CIO tax M a R c H 2 0 0 8 T H e a M e R I c a n s P e c T a T o R 1 5 bonkers at cnn Over at CNN, executives are on the hunt for what one longtime producer there calls “closet conservatives,” this, after the Huffington Post created a furor over donations CNN commentator and former Reagan education secretary and Bush I drug czar William Bennett made to political candidates...
...It’s just one of the more absurd things we’ve seen,” says one producer...
...Either way, the Democratic Party may end up being more fractured than the GOP going into their convention...
...Conservatives would be happy with a McCain cabinet, if they weren’t entirely happy with McCain himself...
...living Proof McCain insiders are telling conservatives in Washington that they shouldn’t fear a John McCain presidency, particularly given the people he intends to surround himself with if he is elected to office...
...Some Gore advisers believe their “Goricle” doesn’t buy into the notion that Obama could win the nomination, and believes that there is little chance that Sen...
...o n T H e P R o W l “He was getting lobbied pretty hard by the Obama people to get democrats in disarray Former Vice President Al Gore chose not to endorse Sen...
...If we can get a doubling of people’s phone taxes by tweaking the legal language at the local level, it will mean millions of tax revenue, and revenue is going to be important for our membership across the country as localities and states look to cut across the board,” said an SEIU lobbyist in Washington, D.C., days before the vote...
...Clinton advisers expect that kind of reaction from the Obama camp and the Obama camp expects that kind of response from the Clintons depending on how the primary season plays out...
...They dangle two names in particular at every turn: former Sen...
...Expectations are that names like Gov...
...And Bill Clinton is a big reason why...
...John McCain, and a CNN spokesman says that Bennett also donated funds to former Gov...
...Someone is going to have to engage all of those people who believe in Obama, and who will be disillusioned by the outcome most of us see coming...
...Evan Bayh will be the two most popular names mentioned...
Vol. 41 • March 2008 • No. 2
