September 12, 2006
Dean, Emanuel Reach Deal
The DNC's Howard Dean and the DCCC's Rahm Emanuel, at odds for months over election strategy, have struck a deal.
The DNC has agreed to spend money in 40 of Emanuel's House races, a Democratic official said this afternoon. Sources outside the party said that some Dean advisers wanted to include a "good behavior" clause that would increase the amount of money given to House races if Emanuel refrained from publicly or privately denigrating the DNC. But that idea never made it past the drawing board and was never introduced by the DNC.
Officials at the two committees declined to specify the scope of the the DNC's investment, but several strategists privy to the negotiations said they believe that the DNC has committed to spend at least $60K per race.
DNC officials are currently negotiating with the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee about spending in key Senate contests.
Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) helped broker the agreement, which was reached by the DCCC's executive director, Karin Johanson, and Dean's top aide, Tom McMahon.
"Democrats are unified and prepared to win up-and-down the ballot, all across America this November," Dean said in a statement. "Building on successful efforts over the past year, we're in the final stretch and the DNC is making unprecedented investments to ensure that Democrats retake control of Congress and are elected at every level of government."
"The money is already starting to flow out," one official said.
Overall, the DNC has budgeted about $12 million for getting out the vote -- the largest hard dollar sum it has ever spent on GOTV in a midterm. (In 2002, it spent $12 million on congressional races, $5 million on governors races and $7 million on redistricting battles.) The DSCC and the DCCC are both spending millions on their own field programs, and the total between the three committees will probably exceed the estimated $30 million set aside by the Republican National Committee for their 72 Hour Program. Organized labor is also spending $40 million to help mostly Democrats, and interest groups in America Vote consortium are using data from Catalist, a warehouse of voter lists and demographic information, to reach out to independent voters in battlegrounds. [MARC AMBINDER]
Posted at 05:01 PM
Comments
James Clyburn is a Democrat.
James Martin | 09.12.06 05:22 PM
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James Clyburn (D-SC), I should hope.
Josh | 09.12.06 06:09 PM
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Hummmm....Can you say arranging the chairs on the Titanic?
A. ROS | 09.12.06 10:29 PM
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The Dems are traitors. Screw them.
Rob | 09.12.06 10:54 PM
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Howie Dean is the best person to ensure all republicans get re-elected. He's doing a bang up job of destroying the democrats. Thank You Howard the Duck. Quack!!!
Marc Bowman | 09.13.06 12:15 AM
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spending money does not win elections.
What amount of commercials would compel a Democrat to vote for a Republican ?
And what conservative would vote for a liberal no matter what media he witnessed ?
No.. Money will not decidde the votes. Votes are demographic numbers and playing with the union/intersections of said.
Morti | 09.13.06 03:30 AM
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It's about friggin' time!
Steve Slatten | 09.13.06 07:30 AM
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Howard Dean - God's gift to the Republican party and the gift that just keeps giving. At a time when Democrats would benfit mightily from a shift to the center, Dean and the Deaniacs keep the party firmly leaning to the far left. Howard Dean exemplifies all that is bad about today's Democratic Party, which is incapable of presenting any position other than that of negatives about the party in power, even if it means undercutting any effort to fight the against terror. That really says something about Howard Dean, and about the Democrats - I suspect that should they ever get power they would be utterly incapable of handling it, except to stay in attack mode and the heck with anything else.
Not, of course, that we know anything about what they would do, since the Democrats never take a positive position on anything, because if they did, the voters would react with disgust. For example, what would a Democratic Presdient do in the war against terror? Don't know. Social security? Not a clue. The economy? No idea. Trade policy? Nope. Oh sorry, we know what the Democrats would do on immigration - they would throw open the borders in an effort to import Democratic voters, even if an overwhelming majority of Americans, including Latinos, are against it.
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