{"id":13283,"date":"2012-03-05T18:10:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T23:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=13283"},"modified":"2012-03-05T18:10:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T23:10:04","slug":"obama-campaign-won%e2%80%99t-share-money-with-other-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/13283\/obama-campaign-won%e2%80%99t-share-money-with-other-dems\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Campaign Won\u2019t Share Money with Other Dems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0312\/73600.html\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a> explains why if Democrats win control of Congress in 2012 it won\u2019t be with President Barack Obama&#8217;s help:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Obama campaign leaders Jim] Messina and [David] Plouffe told the two Hill leaders that there would be no cash transfers to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee from OFA or the DNC, at least not before Election Day, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Hill Democrats won\u2019t be seeing much of Obama at their own fundraisers this year, either. Obama has offered to do one money event each for the DCCC and DSCC. OFA officials suggested Vice President Joe Biden do two fundraisers for each campaign committee. Obama will instead send out an email and fundraising letter solicitations for both committees.<\/p>\n<p>Nor, for that matter, have Obama or Biden committed to do events for individual Democratic lawmakers. That\u2019s true even though 23 Democrat-held Senate seats are up for grabs in a competitive battle for control of that chamber. And no fundraisers have been scheduled yet for House and Senate Democrats with Cabinet officials, usually a staple of an election-year calendar for incumbent presidents looking to boost their party\u2019s prospects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No surprise here since the President is just a typical liberal: a spendthrift with other people\u2019s money but a miser with his own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico explains why if Democrats win control of Congress in 2012 it won\u2019t be with President Barack Obama&#8217;s help: [Obama campaign leaders Jim] Messina and [David] Plouffe told the two Hill leaders that there would be no cash transfers to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee from OFA or the DNC, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,143,1193,3402],"class_list":["post-13283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-barack-obama","tag-campaign","tag-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13283"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13288,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13283\/revisions\/13288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}