| inbluevt | Date: Saturday, 2013/08/03, 7:49 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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The Hillary 2016 battle is under way. Michelle Cottle reports on the super PACs on both sides who couldn’t wait for Clinton’s decision.
“I’ve never had this much fun!” raves Adam Parkhomenko, the 27-year-old co-founder of Ready for Hillary, a seven-month-old super PAC whose name tells you pretty much all you need to know about the group’s mission.
On a rainy August morning, kicked back at a sandwich shop down by the White House, Parkhomenko sips his coffee and marvels at his organization’s early success. Since January, Ready for Hillary has amassed half a million Facebook supporters (with a new one signing up every nine seconds), more than 10,000 donors, $1.25 million in donations (over $1 million in June alone), and a swelling stable of advisers hailing from both Clinton and Obama worlds (Harold Ickes, Craig Smith, Jeremy Bird, Mitch Stewart …).
And, oh
yes, they’ve mailed out more than 65,000 “Ready for Hillary” bumper stickers. (Conveniently, there’s a post office next door to the group’s Huntington, Virginia, headquarters.)
“The support has been overwhelming,” says Parkhomenko, himself a survivor of
Hillary’s ill-fated 2008 presidential run. “It’s more than I ever could have wished for.”
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