I don’t think so Joe, really

could still have turned the trick for him

Nice phrasing there 🙂

It looks like everyone who stood against here was on a hiding to nothing, which is probably why she treated the primaries as the first stage of a victory lap.

So I followed the money. My predecessor, Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, had not been the most active chair in fundraising at a time when President Barack Obama’s neglect had left the party in significant debt. As Hillary’s campaign gained momentum, she resolved the party’s debt and put it on a starvation diet. It had become dependent on her campaign for survival, for which she expected to wield control of its operations.

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That wasn’t true, he [Hilary’s finance manager] said. Officials from Hillary’s campaign had taken a look at the DNC’s books. Obama left the party $24 million in debt—$15 million in bank debt and more than $8 million owed to vendors after the 2012 campaign—and had been paying that off very slowly. Obama’s campaign was not scheduled to pay it off until 2016. Hillary for America (the campaign) and the Hillary Victory Fund (its joint fundraising vehicle with the DNC) had taken care of 80 percent of the remaining debt in 2016, about $10 million, and had placed the party on an allowance.

If I didn’t know about this, I assumed that none of the other officers knew about it, either.

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“Gary, how did they do this without me knowing?” I asked. “I don’t know how Debbie relates to the officers,” Gary said. He described the party as fully under the control of Hillary’s campaign, which seemed to confirm the suspicions of the Bernie camp. The campaign had the DNC on life support, giving it money every month to meet its basic expenses, while the campaign was using the party as a fund-raising clearinghouse. Under FEC law, an individual can contribute a maximum of $2,700 directly to a presidential campaign. But the limits are much higher for contributions to state parties and a party’s national committee.

There’s a similarity with Gordon Browns memoir in which (apparently¹) he claims that had he stood against Blair after John Smith’s death, he would have won.

1) I have absolutely NOT read the book – only Danny Finkelstein’s excellent, perceptive and cruel assessment in The Times.

@TMB

Is that anywhere outside the paywall? Danny’s view would be one worth reading. A counterfactual to an alternate history and all that.

John Square –

Is it perhaps this article? It’s not paywalled but you have to register with an email address and a password.

John² / PST

Yes that’s the one.

Andrew again, Mailinator works fine.

If anyone wants to impersonate Mr C Unt, email [email protected], password cuntycunt, they should feel free.

BoM4 – Seth Rich?