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Matt Stoller’s
tease last night, “Anti-Clinton Opportunity,” certainly piqued everyone’s curiosity. Today’s Politico.com piece covers what Stoller teased,
though without mentioning Matt.
“We’ll definitely have sufficient resources to make a significant
media buy,” he said, adding that their campaign against Clinton would
be “edgy” enough to get attention. “We don’t need to
raise an immense amount of money to make a big difference.” … ..… .. “I’m definitely not a Hillary hater — I think there are
other candidates who are better for the progressive movement,” Hurowitz
said. “Most of the people involved in our PAC will be happy to support
her if she does become the nominee.”
The above quote is from Glenn Hurowtiz, the president of “Democratic Courage,” a new PAC put together to push back on Hillary Clinton. I had a brief conversation
with Glenn today. He confirmed that Stoller’s post last night was indeed about his PAC. Hurowitz went on to say that the goal of Democratic Courage is to rebut the growing perception that
the primary season is over and Hillary Clinton has the nomination won. As Glenn
sees it, Clinton is “vulnerable,” but between Republicans talking
about her all the time and the media doing the same, according to Hurowitz,
she’s being assumed the winner far too early. The other issue for him is that
Clinton is being portrayed as a progressive when he feels there are several
candidates that fit the description much better than she does. Hurowitz’s group
is about to do a media advertising buy that will take Clinton on.
Hurowitz has written pro
Edwards posts, and he freely admits he personally supports John
Edwards, as well as having given money to Edwards. An earlier post of Hurowitz’s
covered “The
Clinton-Obama energy plan.” However, Democratic Courage is not a pro
Edwards PAC. According to Hurowitz, others involved in the PAC support other
candidates and they have no intention of endorsing anyone. He was quick to add
that if he and the others joining him believed that Clinton was truly inevitable
they wouldn’t have formed Democratic Courage. He’s more than willing to support
Clinton if she wins, as the quote above illustrates, but he thinks the primary
is far from over and his group is going to do all they can to make sure they
get their message out.
Fewer than twenty people are involved in Democratic Courage right now. But
when I asked Hurowitz what big name blogs were involved he wouldn’t give the
names. He also said his PAC had several “maxed out donors,” who have
already given $5,000. PACs can’t raise more than that amount from any one individual,
and the main advantage of a PAC is that there are far fewer limits on directly supporting candidates than 527s, which rely on unlimited windfall contributions
from big money donors, but also come with tight strings attached on how you can use the money.
Hurowitz made a point of mentioning that tomorrow is the 5-year anniversary
of Paul Wellstone’s death, and Hurowitz will have a post up on Politico.com
talking about it, something he also covered in his book. Looking at the homepage,
you’ll see a picture of Wellstone right alongside of John Edwards.
Looking at the Democratic Courage site, I found the blogroll interesting. John
Edwards is the only candidate listed, so I asked Hurowitz why Obama wasn’t included
as well if the PAC isn’t John Edwards centric. He laughed and said that the
site was his personal blog until very recently when he made it the home of the
PAC, and he’s not gotten around to doing anything with it.
I’ve emailed the Clinton camp, but haven’t heard back from them.
The primary temperature is about to heat up.
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