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Obama Making Presidential Moves: Secret Meeting With Clinton, No Lobbyist Money for the DNC
June 6th, 2008
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DNC bans lobbyist money
Jun 5 09:39 AM US/Eastern
By NEDRA PICKLER and JIM KUHNHENN
Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - With Barack Obama as their future nominee, the Democratic National Committee is adopting his policy of no longer accepting donations from federal lobbyists or political action committees.
The change will make the party and the candidate have a consistent position. Obama often says banning the donations is one way to help keep him free of the influence of Washington insiders.
An Obama spokesman announced the change Thursday as the candidate prepared to fly from New York, where he had been raising money, to campaign in Virginia.
Obama himself planned to discuss the change at a town hall meeting in Bristol, Virginia.
Obama strategist Paul Tewes, who ran the Illinois senator’s successful Iowa campaign, is taking over the DNC and was at party headquarters Thursday meeting the staff.
I don’t know what they mean by “taking over the DNC” my understand is that Howard Dean is still the Chariman. Also, I I don’t know that the DNC “opted” to change the policy; my understaning is that Obama flexed his muscle to pushed them to fall in line with his position.
Obama/Clinton Meeting:
In the midst of the night Obama and Clinton held a secrete meeting which was not disclosed to the press until they realized that Obama was not on the press plane with them and it was taking off.
I’m glad initial reports were wrong that said the meeting was at Clinton’s house. That would have really been a punk move for him as the winner, to go to the losers turf.
Senator Dianne Feinstein of California got the call from Hillary Rodham Clinton Thursday afternoon: Could she, would she let Mrs. Clinton use her home in Northwest Washington for a little sit-down with a certain senator from Illinois, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president of the United States?
Mrs. Feinstein had made the offer before and it was still good. And so a few hours later, at just about 9 p.m., Mrs. Clinton and Senator Barack Obama arrived for a face to face chat. No staff. No spouses. Just the two of them in Mrs. Feinstein’s living room.
“They talked. I went upstairs and did my work,” Feinstein said Friday. “They called me when it was over. I came down and said, ‘Good night, everybody, I hope you had a good meeting.’
“They were laughing and that was it.”
The meeting began at 9 p.m. and lasted about an hour, said Feinstein, who has supported Clinton’s candidacy.
“I think the opportunity to sit down, just the two of them, was positive,” she said.
No one else was in the room, and no one is giving details of what was discussed.
The meeting was the first for the two Democratic candidates since Obama became the party’s presumptive nominee.
“They talked about how to come together and how to unify this party and move forward because what we have at stake in November is so important,” Robert Gibbs, the Obama campaign’s communication director, said Friday on CNN’s “American Morning.”
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