Clinton Donors Threaten to Withdraw Support from Democrats if Super Delegates (not voters) Can't Decide Nomination
/From the Frontrunner
The New York Daily News (3/28, Bazinet) reports, "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blew off warnings from Hillary Clinton backers Thursday, refusing to acknowledge their veiled threat. Madame Speaker ignored the Wednesday memo from 20 Clinton fat cats, in which they threatened to stop giving to a House Democratic fund-raising arm Pelosi oversees unless she changes her tune urging superdelegates to follow the lead of voter-chosen delegates." Her "deafening" silence "only magnified the rancorous chatter reverberating around the Internet. ... The Clinton campaign, after initially supporting the letter from its moneymen, insisted yesterday the overture was an independent effort." Clinton "has an outside chance of overtaking" Barack "in the popular vote if the Michigan and Florida primaries - which were voided by the party - are redone," encouraging her team to say "superdelegates may swing their way if she wins the popular vote."
The Politico (3/28) reports runs a letter from MoveOn in response to the Clinton backers' letter. The Politico runs an excerpt of the MoveOn letter, saying, "This is pretty outrageous: A group of Clinton-supporting big Democratic donors are threatening to stop supporting Democrats in Congress because Nancy Pelosi said that the people, not the superdelegates, should decide the presidential nomination. It's the worst kind of insider politics - billionaires bullying our elected leaders into ignoring the will of the voters." The letter calls on MoveOn members to back Pelosi in the dispute.