Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Senatorial Campaign Committee won’t get any of Obama’s stash

March 6, 2012 | Steve McGough | | Politics

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) were told yesterday by President Obama’s top aides – Jim Messina and David Plouffe – they won’t be getting any cash from Obama for America or the Democratic National Committee.

Yeah, funds just won’t be flowing like they used to. Congressional Democrats are on their own this year.

Democratic congressional leaders, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, have privately sought as much as $30 million combined from Obama for America and the Democratic National Committee — a replay of the financial help they received from Obama in 2008 and 2010.

But that’s not going to happen, top Obama aides Jim Messina and David Plouffe told Reid and Pelosi in back-to-back meetings on Capitol Hill on Thursday, according to sources familiar with the high-level talks. It was a stark admission from a presidential campaign once expected to rake in as much as $1 billion of just how closely it is watching its own bottom line.

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13 Comments

kateinmaine on March 6, 2012 at 11:55 am

did they really expect their ‘fair share’??
Tim-in-Alabama on March 6, 2012 at 2:01 pm

Obama’s watching his bottom line? lol Or is he just being selfish. Barry makes the Clintons – the poster couple for greed – look like Little Sisters of the Poor.
RoBrDona on March 6, 2012 at 2:28 pm

We will see more entrenchment from the embattled Prince of Narcissism as he has already shown many times that he is happy to throw anyone under the bus to preserve his own hide.
- PatRiot on March 6, 2012 at 5:21 pm
  
  Amen and amen !!
Sad4CT on March 6, 2012 at 3:30 pm

He’s obviously been given an “exemption” from having to share his wealth…
GdavidH on March 6, 2012 at 5:51 pm

The useful idiots will be the first ones thrown under the bus if the won is re-elected.
ricbee on March 6, 2012 at 10:35 pm

The only thing of any importance to Obama is his reelection so he can flit from head table to golf course all over the world.
- Dimsdale on March 7, 2012 at 11:22 am
  
  “Chasing socialist windmills from golf courses”.? Sounds like a good election motto!
phil on March 7, 2012 at 8:22 am

Maybe he wants a Republican controlled Senate.
Dimsdale on March 7, 2012 at 11:21 am

Tell them to get in line behind the folks expecting free mortgages, gas etc. from ?bama.
- winnie on March 8, 2012 at 6:35 am
  
  All of which are unalienable rights, eh, Dims? heheheheeeeeee
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Lynn on March 7, 2012 at 11:57 am

Yup. President Obama has to pay off his supporters and doesn’t have enough money to pay for other Dems. Hs he’s becoming a Conservative and making them pay their own way. LOL
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JBS on March 7, 2012 at 1:14 pm

Phil is on to it! How many House and Senate seats will be in play? Without Money from His Royal Highness, Bary the First, Dems are going to have a harder time campaigning.
This can only bode well for Republicans seeking House and Senate seats. House AND Senate majorities, anyone?
Watch out for back door deals to quite whinny Dems.

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