Well Partiers, we were spoiled with a whopping 39 fundraisers this past week. With all of the breakfasts, lunches and dinners (and small dinners) stretching our stomachs out, we were already hungrily searching for our next fix. But it looks especially grim with Congress taking yet another week off: just six parties on our calendar, folks, so send us some more! But don’t despair! Campaigns go on forever, and the parties never end. One piece of info that should give you hope: The New York mayoral race is heating up, and after a two-year time-out, Anthony Weiner is ...
Hey, Partiers. It’s been sort of a tough week in the nation’s capital, what with the scandal at the Internal Revenue Service, the outrage at the Justice Department and the drumbeat of GOP criticism over Benghazi. I could go on for pages about how bad it’s been for the White House -- but others have beaten me to it. Besides, things must not be as bad as they look -- President Obama still managed to squeeze in three fundraisers on Monday, after some of these problems surfaced. And in the Party arena, we had our our own controversy to deal ...
Hey, Partiers! After golfing on Saturday, then celebrating Mother’s Day on Sunday and hosting British Prime Minister David Cameron this morning, you might think that President Obama would be too tuckered out to deal with any fundraising. But you’d be wrong! (This is the Party Time blog. You should see these things coming...)
The president is traveling this afternoon to the New York City to attend three fairly secretive Democratic fundraisers, one DCCC/DSCC party at the Waldorf Astoria hotel and another DNC event at the home ...
The life of a lawmaker is TOUGH. Take it from Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who recently lamented the "soul-crushing" fundraising every congressmember has to do to survive! Murphy spoke of the dreaded call time, where he sat in a room for four to five hours a day dialing up constituents and begging for money. But Chris, what about the parties!? Tell me you haven't had fun at the 20+ fundraisers over the past couple years -- remember MURPHYPALOOZA back in 2010? Of course you don't, ...
Nothing can stop the partying.That's the message presented by our friend Dave Levinthal at the Center for Public Integrity, who recently wrote a piece chronicling lawmakers and their never-ending quest for cash -- no matter the circumstances. The third week of April saw numerous tragedies unfold, but that didn't stop politicians from bombarding supporters with fundraising emails and attending swanky soirees. Levinthal gives examples of messages sent out during the week, like the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee ("Tomorrow is our ad buy deadline in the South Carolina special election"), Obama's ...