By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--November 13, 2017
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Former aides to Bill and Hillary Clinton are launching a new super PAC to upgrade Democratic organizing and fundraising in support of the party's candidates around the country, NBC News has learned. The new group, called Party Majority, would act as a parallel structure to Democratic Party committees at the national and state levels while coordinating with them. Its creation comes at a time when party committees are struggling to maintain their relevance as donors increasingly push money to political organizations that can raise and spend money with less regulation. "Democrats are motivated to fight the Trump agenda, but without fully funded organizing operations, we won't maximize our opportunities next year and every year thereafter," said Party Majority co-founder Mike Lux, a former aide to President Bill Clinton who has helped build a series of progressive organizations over the last two decades. "Party Majority PAC will fill in holes to make sure activists on the ground have the resources they need to be successful, working with existing organizations both new and old to ensure resources are used effectively," he added.
Despite its obvious ties to the Clinton world, the group is expected to announce soon a larger set of leaders from across the Democratic political universe. Lux and the other co-founder, Adam Parkhomenko, who built Ready for Hillary, later served as director of grass-roots engagement on Clinton's presidential campaign and is currently a paid adviser to Clinton, have been frustrated by the lack of coordination and continuity in Democratic campaigns. Every four years, a presidential campaign builds infrastructure across the country only to see it wither by the next set of elections or as new crews take over leadership roles at party committees.So does this mean Hillary remains delusional enough to think she could still become president, and that this super PAC was really created with that in mind? Maybe. There's no doubt in my mind that Hillary is that delusional. But there could be other reasons the Clintons are doing this - primarily related to power and influence within the Democratic Party. Before Donna Brazile started squawking about how Hillary had essentially rigged the primaries, she was still held in pretty high esteem by most rank-and-file Democrats. That, combined with the Clintons' influence with big-money donors, meant Hillary maintained a pretty lofty status in the minds of most Democrats. But that changed a lot over the course of the past week. Democrats were willing to overlook her lifetime of corruption and even her loss to Trump because she was the first female nominee and whatever else. But Democrats have a lot of affection for Bernie Sanders for whatever reason, and when they found out Crooked Hillary cheated him every bit as much as she cheats everyone else who comes across her path, that seemed to be enough to embolden the DNC to take the gloves off and start treating her like the abscess she is.
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