Dems to Dean: where’s the money?

Looks like the Doctor of Disology is in a bit of a pickle with other leaders in the Democratic party:

Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill are privately bristling over Howard Dean’s management of the Democratic National Committee and have made those sentiments clear after new fundraising numbers showed he has spent nearly all the committee’s cash and has little left to support their efforts to gain seats this cycle, ROLL CALL reports.

Congressional leaders were furious last week when they learned the DNC has just $5.5 million in the bank, compared to the Republican National Committee’s $34 million.

Senate and House Minority Leaders Harry Reid (Nev.) and Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), along with the Senate and House campaign committee chairmen Charles Schumer (N.Y.) and Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), have made their concerns — directly or indirectly — known to Dean, claims the paper.

Emanuel was particularly upset last week upon seeing the latest DNC numbers.

“A lot of people are scratching their heads as to what’s going on” said one senior Democratic aide.

Another Democratic source familiar with the party fundraising apparatus said there is “obvious displeasure” among the leaders.

Here’s the Roll Call link (paid reg. req.) (I rec’d the Roll Call story earlier in today in email from a friend but hadn’t gotten around to blogging it yet).

In actuality, there’s more Dems should be upset with Dean about than just this, but it’s a start.

31 Responses to "Dems to Dean: where’s the money?"

great unknown says:

January 30, 2006 at 10:14 pm

Dean does not represent mainstream Democrats (is that an oxymoron?). He represents the left-wing crazies. What could be better for him and his than to drain the central funding of the Democratic Party and force the candidates to turn to Soros, et. al., for funding.
Of course, that kind of funding comes with the instructions, “Roll over, play dead.”
andrew says:

January 30, 2006 at 10:39 pm

Deans spending it in the right places. Building the parties at the state level. But don’t let anyone say that the GOP doesn’t have the money power.
Robert says:

January 30, 2006 at 11:38 pm

Dean is a predictable disaster. As great unknown says above, he represents the ehackjobs. You can’t build a national party success on the Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan fan clubs.
The problem is, that “Senate and House Minority Leaders Harry Reid (Nev.) and Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), along with the Senate and House campaign committee chairmen Charles Schumer (N.Y.)” plus Ted Kennedy also represent the whackjobs. 90% of their leadership is pandering to the 10%ers.
What a fundamental strategic error…fools! Yet another reason why the DemokRat party can’t be trusted to run the Country or the War on Terror.
sanity says:

January 31, 2006 at 12:29 am

Where did the money go?

Perhaps the latest sudden hard shift left is to garner money support for the DNC from the places like Kos and moveon.org.

Might explain why Kennedy and Kerry are writing at Kos, sucking up to potential donors perhaps?

Democrats have a right to be angry, with Dean in the role, he is runing his mouth more than doing what he was suppose to be doing which was to raise money contributions for the DNC in which he seems to have done really poorly in.

There are Democrat elections for various positions coming soon, and the DNC is in no shape to even fight against the amount of cash the Republicans have generated and can spend.

I am curious, does Dean have to step aside on his own, or can the Democrats remove him and replace him with someone more competent?
ttyler5 says:

January 31, 2006 at 3:03 am

Great Unknown, I thought the democrats wanted the US to roll over and play dead…
Jim M says:

January 31, 2006 at 7:43 am

Not only has Dean spent the DNC’s campaign money but the money that use to flow to the DNC is now being sent in different directions. Some of that money is now going to left wing special interest groups such as MoveOn.org, Media Fund and America Coming Together. There is also the money from the moon bats supporting Cindy Sheehan to keep giving her air(head)time in the media. With the face of the Democratic Party being that of Kennedy and Kerry calling for a filibuster on Samuel Alito when a majority of the public is for Alito’s conformation except the whacko left. This is going to be fun to watch and see how long the Democrats can survive on spin and PR.
camojack says:

January 31, 2006 at 9:12 am

I would say Dr. Dean’s subject should be proctology…but it would be more accurate to say he’s better qualified to be the subject of that particular specialization.
andrew says:

January 31, 2006 at 9:41 am

“Some of that money is now going to left wing special interest groups such as MoveOn.org, Media Fund and America Coming Together.”

Where do you get the Idea that the DNC is giving money to groups it doesn’t control?
PCD says:

January 31, 2006 at 10:25 am

andrew, you misread the comment. Democrat Donors are shifting their donations from the DNC to MoveOn.org, ACT, and other finge, whackjob groups.
Jim M says:

January 31, 2006 at 10:29 am

Andrew,
If you would have read the sentence previous the one you selected you might understand that the money that use to go solely to the DNC is now being split up going to 527s and other special interest groups. I did not say that the DNC was giving money to MoveOn.org, Media Fund and America Coming Together. Besides Dr. Dean spending, the contributions from party loyalist are going to other special interests instead of it all going in to the DNC coffers.
Jim M says:

January 31, 2006 at 10:35 am

Thanks PCD for the help explaining to andrew what I wrote.
blogagog says:

January 31, 2006 at 10:41 am

Seriously though, does anyone know what he’s doing with the money? I would have thought that the DNC was not spending money on campaigns yet, but they’ve spent millions already. On what?
PCD says:

January 31, 2006 at 11:12 am

Anyone checked if the members of the DNC are doctor shopping for happy pills?
andrew says:

January 31, 2006 at 11:15 am

“If you would have read the sentence previous the one you selected you might understand that the money that use to go solely to the DNC is now being split up going to 527s and other special interest groups. ”

Is DNC fundraising down? That article talks about it not having much money due to spendin, but not that fundraising is down.

“Seriously though, does anyone know what he’s doing with the money? I would have thought that the DNC was not spending money on campaigns yet, but they’ve spent millions already. On what?”

Dean ran on the platform that he would spend the money on long run investment at the state level party building, rather than just on campaigns every 2 years.
Jim M says:

January 31, 2006 at 12:37 pm

Andrew do you have one foot tacked to the ground? Let’s put it to you this way The Dems $5.5 Mil. The GOP $34 Mil going into the election year. Now either Howard Dean spent a lot of money on who knows what or the contributions are down just a little. There is just a little disparity between the amount of money in the two Parties coffers and just using a little common sense and logic some of the disparity could be contributions. The GOP doesn’t have to support nut jobs like Cindy Sheehan or the ageing leftovers from the Vietnam era to crawl or wheel them to Washington to protest the State of The Union speech.
Big Bang Hunter says:

January 31, 2006 at 1:17 pm

– Well either way Andrew…. based on the results thusfar if I were the DNC leadership I’d be asking Dean for my money back…..

– Bang
Baklava says:

January 31, 2006 at 1:31 pm

Bang and Andrew,

Here’s more info on that
andrew says:

January 31, 2006 at 2:22 pm

“There is just a little disparity between the amount of money in the two Parties coffers and just using a little common sense and logic some of the disparity could be contributions.”

I’m sure you can leap to that conclusion. And I’m sure you can also leap to the conclusion that the money is going to other liberal causes rather than just not being raised or going to republican groups.

But the article only talked about spending.
andrew says:

January 31, 2006 at 2:26 pm

Thanks Baklava. There you go: republicans have the money power:

“The DNC raised $51 million in 2005 … The Republican National Committee raised twice as much during the same period, $102 million,”
PCD says:

January 31, 2006 at 2:29 pm

andrew, what do your handlers at the DNC say when you tell them we aren’t buying the crap you post?
Jim M says:

January 31, 2006 at 2:45 pm

Hey Andrew maybe Dr. Dean could hire the stars from “Hump Back Mountain” to campaign for the DNC in oh lets say Wyoming or maybe Utah.
andrew says:

January 31, 2006 at 3:07 pm

“andrew, what do your handlers at the DNC say when you tell them we aren’t buying the crap you post?”

Did you read the articles? That’s all the info i’m using. Drudge report and the washington times are the two links so far. DNC Handlers for sure.

“Hump Back Mountain”

Are you a grownup?
Baklava says:

January 31, 2006 at 3:39 pm

It tells ME andrew the following three things:

1) The PEOPLE of this country aren’t buying the Democrat parties line of crap and aren’t contributing (this is hard money not soft) as much to Democrats because they have NO message
2) The constituencies of the Democrat party offer the following problems…..
a) The poor/students don’t have money to contribute…
b) The rich/hollywood/professors who give are limited to the cap of $2,000 per individual in hard money (yes the rich give in high numbers to the Democrats – as they think they “care” more than conservatives
3) The Republicans are CONTINUING the trend of having MORE and MORE people donate and contribute to the RNC than the DNC. Republicans have contributors donating LESS per person than the Democrats and by FAR MORE PEOPLE contributing.

This continued trend is due to the left that has lost their CONTROL on the message. They used to have control with ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN and now the country does NOT believe the incessant lying/accusing/etc.
andrew says:

January 31, 2006 at 3:57 pm

“The Republicans are CONTINUING the trend of having MORE and MORE people donate and contribute to the RNC than the DNC. Republicans have contributors donating LESS per person than the Democrats and by FAR MORE PEOPLE contributing.”

Lately they’ve gotten indian tribes to start giving.

“This continued trend is due to the left that has lost their CONTROL on the message. ”

Well you also don’t want to give to the minority party. Not during the times of the K-street project.
Fat Tone says:

January 31, 2006 at 4:15 pm

The problem with the DNC, is that the money, power, and ideas, are coming from the far far far far left…and that is not in touch witha large portion of moderate conservative swing voters, that vote republican, over moonbat.
Baklava says:

January 31, 2006 at 4:22 pm

Andew mixed apples and oranges by saying, “Lately they’ve gotten indian tribes to start giving.

The detailed info in the link was hard money donated to the RNC and DNC. That’s what my statement refers to and has been the trend for I believe over a decade (maybe longer). THe Indian money given just like Unions, and 527’s, etc was SOFT money that have a whole other set of rules. In CA Indians gave mostly to Democrat politicians. This is special interest money that has grown exponentially and totals in the hundreds of millions instead of the tens of millions (for hard money). As government gets larger and larger this special interest money is donated more and more because everyone wants a piece of the government action. THis is a reason why conservatives want to shrink government and believe it is foolish for liberals to think government isn’t large enough (as government has grown EVERY year for over 6 decades). Lobbying and Special Interests are trying to influence legislation daily and it ISN’T illegal. Soft money contributions will continue to grow as long as government grows.
andrew says:

January 31, 2006 at 4:26 pm

“The detailed info in the link was hard money donated to the RNC and DNC.”

Those may be different, but I don’t see them as apples and oranges.

Also, the link didn’t specify hard or soft money. But I believe you when you say its hard.
Baklava says:

January 31, 2006 at 4:30 pm

Yes. Hard and Soft are apples and oranges. The article never talked about Soft money.

Thanks for believing me. I’ve done enough research to know the difference.
sanity says:

January 31, 2006 at 5:16 pm

The following link is an excellent source for both RNC and DNC political spending.
PoliticalMoneyLine

If your curious on how the parties spend and on PAC information, this would be an excellent place for you to start looking.
Baklava says:

January 31, 2006 at 5:21 pm

This link talks about the problem being big government and how everyone (interest groups) are trying to get their share
sanity says:

January 31, 2006 at 5:22 pm

For some reason link didn’t work corectly above, so here it is again for the Political Money Line Database:
LINK

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