The one thing the Party of Blasphemy, Buggery, and 'Bortion knows how to do is spend other people's money. If they're cutting off the funds to those attempting a coup d'etat in Wisconsin, it is probably over.
From Politico:
DNC Is MIA In Wisconsin
The Republican National Committee has said it’ll kick in whatever it takes to keep Wisconsin
Gov. Scott Walker in office.
But
Democrats in Washington won’t commit to spending big, even though their
candidate has been out raised 25-to-1 so far. And in Wisconsin, that’s
left the local activists fuming.
With just three weeks until the
June 5 recall election in Wisconsin,
Democrats in the state are still waiting for a check they asked the
Democratic National Committee to send. And the Obama campaign hasn’t
given them any cash, either.
“I think [there’s] the perception that there’s not enough overall
national money, national support from both individual donors and D.C.
coming through the door and we’ve got three weeks — we need that money
now,” said a Wisconsin Democratic operative. “I think that’s individual
donors from around the country, I think that’s the DNC, I think that’s
labor, I think that’s super PACs, I think that’s whoever is willing to
contribute to make that gap smaller.”
Meanwhile, the
RNC is expected to continue supporting Walker through election day.
“We’re all in here,” said RNC Chairman
Reince Priebus.
“We will be involved for as much as we need to be involved. We haven’t
put a limit on the number.” The RNC has already spent hundreds of
thousands of dollars on the race, he added.
Wisconsin Democrats have asked the Democratic National Committee for
$500,000 to help elect Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett —but that check
hasn’t arrived yet.
Graeme Zielinski, a spokesman for the Democratic Party of Wisconsin,
said the state party has made a financial request of the DNC and that
“it is pending.” He declined to confirm the amount, but didn’t dispute
the $500,000 figure, first reported by the
Washington Post.
“We’re going to get outspent 10-to-1, maybe 20-to-1,” Zielinski said.
“We just need the resources to activate our superior get-out-the-vote
operation, which we could. But we can’t do it for free. Campaigns cost
money. Scott Walker has owned the air. We believe we can own the
ground.” Zielinski noted he’s confident that the DNC and other allies
will support state Democrats.
But top national Democrats have been evasive about their financing plans.
DNC
spokeswoman Melanie Roussell declined to comment on the $500,000
request. And Obama campaign deputy manager Stephanie Cutter said that
she wasn’t sure whether the DNC would shell out cash.
“I don’t know the answer to that question on the
money,” Cutter told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd Tuesday morning when asked
whether the DNC would pony up for the recall.
The Obama campaign isn’t planning to spend money directly on the
recall, a campaign official told POLITICO last week. Cutter said Tuesday
that the campaign has committed to help with get-out-the-vote efforts
and “doing basically everything we can to bring the Democrat over the
finish line.”
Still, Roussell said the Obama campaign and the DNC are committed to
the recall. DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz will host a
fundraiser for Barrett later this month.
Democratic Governors Association Executive Director Colm O’Comartun
said state and national Democrats have a plan in place to finance
Democrats’ efforts in Wisconsin.
In addition to the $2 million the DGA has already spent on the
recall, “We will be sending more,” he said, but declined to give a
dollar figure. He said he has “every confidence” that it will be fully
funded by the DGA, state Democrats and other allies.
But with Walker dramatically outraising Barrett and Republicans
outgunning them on the airwaves, Democrats in Wisconsin want more cash
now.
Walker has raised more than $25 million since January 2011 to defend
his seat, and has spent more than $20 million, according to data
compiled by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. By contrast, Barrett — a
late entry into the contest who won the primary just last week — had
raised only $832,000 by the end of the April reporting period and spent
$809,000.
Republicans have also outspent Democrats by about 4-to-1 on the
airwaves in the state this year, according to a Gannett Wisconsin
analysis released earlier this month.
The final push on the airwaves or on the ground by either side could
still help tip the scales in the contested race. A Rasmussen poll
released last week showed Walker with a five-point lead over Barrett,
with a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points. Another
Marquette University Law School poll released before the Democratic primary showed Walker and Barrett locked in a dead heat.
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