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Ready for Hillary superPAC Located in Ros
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Date: April 22, 2014 01:31PM
I imagine there are plenty of these superPAC not only located in Rosslyn but in Fairfax County offices. I never thought about that.
In a high-rise office in Rosslyn, Va., Adam Parkhomenko is selling campaign paraphernalia for a campaign that may or may not happen.
"Bumper stickers, magnets, and then we have everything from T-shirts, we have baby onesies that we're almost out of now," says Parkhomenko.
Parkhomenko runs a group called Ready for Hillary. It's more than a Clinton fan club: It's a superPAC, a list-building superPAC.
Last week in Boston, around 100 young professionals paid $20.16 — 2016, get it? — to attend a Ready for Hillary event. Far more important than the minimal money raised was the data collected — tools for future targeting and organizing.
Harold Ickes, an old Clinton consigliere, is an adviser to the superPAC.
"Ready for Hillary started a year ago almost to the day, has raised over $4 million — mostly small donors ... and has over 2 million names of people who have signed up that want to stay in touch," Ickes says. "We have their email addresses, and their Twitter handles and the hashtags and all that that goes along with it. It's quite amazing."
Ready for Hillary is an important piece of the campaign-in-waiting — but only one piece, says Ickes.
"There is Priorities USA, which is a holdover from 2012," he said. "That is a big-money vehicle that, if she runs, will presumably raise very large amounts of money that will be independent spending."
In addition to Ready for Hillary and Priorities, also a superPAC, a group called Correct the Record is doing research and rapid response to support and defend Clinton in the media.
All of these groups demonstrate how smoothly the Obama and Clinton operations have been braided together. Jim Messina, the 2012 Obama campaign manager, is now the co-chairman of Priorities. Mitch Stewart and Jeremy Bird, who ran Obama's vaunted field operation, are advising Ready for Hillary.
In a high-rise office in Rosslyn, Va., Adam Parkhomenko is selling campaign paraphernalia for a campaign that may or may not happen.
"Bumper stickers, magnets, and then we have everything from T-shirts, we have baby onesies that we're almost out of now," says Parkhomenko.
Parkhomenko runs a group called Ready for Hillary. It's more than a Clinton fan club: It's a superPAC, a list-building superPAC.
Last week in Boston, around 100 young professionals paid $20.16 — 2016, get it? — to attend a Ready for Hillary event. Far more important than the minimal money raised was the data collected — tools for future targeting and organizing.
Harold Ickes, an old Clinton consigliere, is an adviser to the superPAC.
"Ready for Hillary started a year ago almost to the day, has raised over $4 million — mostly small donors ... and has over 2 million names of people who have signed up that want to stay in touch," Ickes says. "We have their email addresses, and their Twitter handles and the hashtags and all that that goes along with it. It's quite amazing."
Ready for Hillary is an important piece of the campaign-in-waiting — but only one piece, says Ickes.
"There is Priorities USA, which is a holdover from 2012," he said. "That is a big-money vehicle that, if she runs, will presumably raise very large amounts of money that will be independent spending."
In addition to Ready for Hillary and Priorities, also a superPAC, a group called Correct the Record is doing research and rapid response to support and defend Clinton in the media.
All of these groups demonstrate how smoothly the Obama and Clinton operations have been braided together. Jim Messina, the 2012 Obama campaign manager, is now the co-chairman of Priorities. Mitch Stewart and Jeremy Bird, who ran Obama's vaunted field operation, are advising Ready for Hillary.