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Liberal Groups Collect $350 Million in Funds for '08 Election
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ABC News' Jacqueline Klingebiel Reports: Seven liberal groups announced Tuesday that they plan to spend $350 million in 2008 on mobilizing voters and advocating on behalf of Democratic candidates.
"We believe that 2008 has the potential of creating not simply a change election, but a sea-change election, the kind of sea-change that we really haven't seen since 1980 when Reagan was elected and conservatives were going to change the course of our country for the next few decades," said Robert Borosage, co-director of Campaign for America's Future (CAF).
The spending plans were unveiled during the "Take Back America" conference, an annual gathering of progressives held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C., the same location used for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
The cumulative $350 million figure includes political action committee (PAC) funds and other funds raised by various progressive groups.
With a projected budget of $53.4 million, the AFL-CIO plans to spend more than any of its liberal counterparts. Other spending amounts for progressive groups include: $30 million for online liberal group MoveOn.org, $30 million for Women Voices.Women Vote, $35 million for ACORN, $10 million for RockTheVote, and $4-6 million for National Council of La Raza.
The spending will focus on "registering people to vote, educating them about the issues of the election and organizing them to get out the vote," said CAF Co-Director Robert Borosage.
The ALF-CIO plans to targeting more than 13 million union-voters across 23 battleground states, saying the union vote "will be key in the 2008 election" as 24 percent of voters come from union-households, according to the ALF-CIO political director Karen Ackerman.
Missing for this year’s "Take Back America" conference was Sen. Barack Obama, (D-Ill.) and Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.).
When asked why the Democratic contenders were absent from this year's conference after having attended last year's, Borosage said he didn't feel passed over. "They are carrying the message that progressive groups have organized around and demanded that their candidates embraced."
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Great job! Now let's use some of it to make sure all the votes count too.
Posted by: DCVoter | Mar 18, 2008 6:11:35 PM
All the votes HAVE been counted, as per the DNC rules.
Posted by: Don | Mar 18, 2008 7:06:09 PM
A good start would be to spend some of the money for new Democratic elections in Michigan and Florida. The credibility of the Democratic party is at stake! If the party implodes, no amount of money will put it back together again.
Posted by: Mary | Mar 18, 2008 7:44:14 PM
DCVoter, Florida is gone, no redo there.
Posted by: BKMC | Mar 18, 2008 8:08:26 PM
Just spoke to a good friend who is in the Florida Congress. He said that Florida should be very successful in it's bid to have the votes count and delegates seated at the convention. Great news for Hillary, nor so great news for Obama
Posted by: Jay | Mar 18, 2008 8:21:59 PM
Jay, I hope you're right because I just cannont vote for this guy, not because of racism, I am half black and I'm pretty upset at his campaign, but because of his manipulating tricks. He is very good at ACTING as though he is above the very things he instigates. We can write our choice in at the general right? I never noticed if we could in the past.
Posted by: irma | Mar 18, 2008 10:38:24 PM
Victor DiMaio, a Florida Delegate is suing the DNC to have his vote counted. Who will this new coalition support... DiMaio or the DNC?
Posted by: smartprimate | Mar 18, 2008 10:46:11 PM
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