May 14, 2008 - 12:31pm

San Francisco's Buell launches pro-Clinton PAC

Susie Tompkins Buell, the San Francisco clothing magnate who helped to head up Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s fundraising operations in the Bay Area, has started up a political action committee aimed at supporting Clinton in the final weeks of the primary campaign.

“Every vote MUST be heard. Every state MUST be included. NOBODY has the right to ask Hillary to step aside when so much is on the line,” wrote Buell in a Tuesday fundraising appeal posted on Mark Halperin’s The Page.

The political action committee, called WomenCount, is planning to place an advertisement in several newspapers in the coming days, starting with USA Today’s Thursday edition.

Buell, the co-founder of Esprit, is not the first Californian to run an independent group backing the New York Senator. Prominent Democratic strategists Jason Kinney and Roger Salazar are two of the organizers behind the American Leadership Project, which most recently ran advertisements supporting of Clinton in Indiana.

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I do not believe that women


I do not believe that women who say... I will vote for a woman as long it is not Hillary are simply dilusional. Do not speak like that. What you are saying is that you want a man as a president of this country and even someone as unqualified as Obama will do. He is a scary person, a self centered lying lawyer who is not interested in the good for all of us.
Vote for Hillary.

06/04/08 4:39 pm

I do not believe that women


I do not believe that women who say... I will vote for a woman as long it is not Hillary are simply dilusional. Do not speak like that. What you are saying is that you want a man as a president of this country and even someone as unqualified as Obama will do. He is a scary person, a self centered lying lawyer who is not interested in the good for all of us.
Vote for Hillary.

06/04/08 4:39 pm

Women in office


I agree that there would be a lot of differences if there were less testosterone at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and on Capitol Hill. In my opinion, women have more experience in getting to yes than men do. Without fighting, that is. I'd like to live long enough to see a table full of women sorting out the Mideast crisis.

I just don't think that THIS woman is best at THIS time for our country. If there had been no obvious contenders in the Democratic field, she'd probably have my support. Of course, if there had been no qualified contenders, we wouldn't have seen her true colors so early.

05/21/08 12:54 pm

Yeah, HRC did suddenly learn


Yeah, HRC did suddenly learn to say "Nawth C'LAHna," didn't she? Very effective political chameleon.

I was not an Obama fan at the beginning. Nor was I an "ABC voter" ('Anyone But Clinton'). I am a fan, however, of integrity and accountability, both of which tests Sen. Clinton has failed, in my opinion.

Maybe my anger stems from the fact that I was such a huge fan and believer during her husband's presidency. Now I've come to realize that the two of them really are the lying connivers that the CONservative right said they were.

05/21/08 12:43 pm

Hillary's REAL constituency


I wonder what that rich lady in San Francisco - Mizz Buell - thinks of her Hillary droppin' g's and swiggin' whiskey with all those hillbillies? I'm sure y'll just love wearin' them there Esprit fashuns.

05/20/08 3:29 pm

the real issue at hand


Hillary Clinton's main support at this point comes from naive women who are blindly backing her just because she is a woman, from her husband's political allies, and from radical Zionists who support the illegal settlements in Gaza that they are hoping and praying will eventually squeeze the Palestinians out of existence.
I do not condone sexism or racism or religious persecution or violence of any kind. I want the U.S. out of Iraq, and to stop supporting Isreal in the way we have been, especially the illegal ways, such as the land grabs, the partition wall, their nuclear arsenal, and their military aggression in Lebanon in 2006. Ms. Clinton supports illegal Zionism and Theocracy, and will do nothing to help to establish peace in that troubled region, which we will continue to pay for with massive financial support for Israel instead of real peace negotiations with the Palestinians - whoever they DEMOCRATICALLY ELECT - and with more misguided military adventures of our own, such as the impending attack on Iran.

05/17/08 9:34 pm

re: Men against Hillary


Since you have admitted that you are not very savy about politics, let me enlighten you about a few things. 1.The badgering for Hillary to step down began as soon as the numbers showed that she cannot win the nomination without the aid of the Superdelegates, which angers all of us regular people who are tired of our votes not counting. 2.The individual who you seem to think has not proven himself HAS proven himself, if you care to look at speaches he has made in the past and his voting record, including his vote to not authorize Bush to go into Iraq, whereas Clinton voted for it, but has yet to acknowledge that she was part of the problem of our being in Iraq, not part of the solution. 3.There are many many people who have seen the man speek who do think he is charismatic. 4.He is not the first black man to run for president. Jesse Jackson ran in 1984 for the Democratic ticket, coming in third place behind Gary Hart (who dropped out because of pictures of him with a blond bimbo) and losing to Walter Mondale. 5.The money is there for Senator Obama because PEOPLE WANT CHANGE, and he represents that change, not Hillary, precisely because she would just be carrying on the same old politics that her husband had, which was the whole reason why Ralph Nader managed to do so well with his third-party nomination back in 2000, which split the Democrats, allowed the race between Gore and Bush to be razor thin, and allowed all that vote-counting mess that ended up with Bush being appointed by the Supreme Court. 6.It is just as chauvenist to support someone solely on the basis of their being a woman as on the basis of their being a man. We need desparately to look at ISSUES and ABILITIES, not ridiculous criteria like the color of someone's skin or whether they have boobs or not. Don't be so lazy!

05/17/08 8:50 pm

Men against Hillary


I can't say I am very savy when it comes to politices but my readings and observations on news television programs I get the impression that there are those from the very beginning of this campaign that want Hillary out just because she is a woman. I believe that there are too many males in important positions as well as many ordinary men in this country that can't stand the idea of a woman as president. Why else is Hillary being continually badgered to step down when it shows that Obama and her are running a close race. Also why else would a individual who has not proven himself suddenly become so popular even though he is not even charismatic or ever really says says anything? Why else when for the first time do we have a woman running for president that all of a sudden, out of no where for the first time comes a man of color running for president. Also why else does Obama never seem to worry about raising money but Hillary is forced to keep raising funds? Why else is Hillary's president criticized everytime he speaks for her. This whole picture just doesn't sit quite right to me and I want Hillary to know that she needs to fight all the way to the end and not let these male cauvinists push her out of the running!!! There are many of us Americans that are totally behind her.

05/17/08 8:13 pm

the add


I am a woman, and Hillary does not speak for me, as the add in USA Today claims. Sure, I would like to see a woman in the Oval Office some day, but not just any woman, and especially not the person who is most ingraned in the political machinery, who does not represent real change, who has already been bought and sold by corporate interests. Might I suggest that her rabid supporters at least give Mr. Obama a chance, to give his speaches a good listen, and to put their sexual biases aside for long enough to understand that he, too, can represent women's voices. Just look at his amazing mother, as well as his wife, and see how they have deeply informed his abilities to be strong and compassionate, both at the same time.

05/17/08 3:21 pm

where are you gettin this "info" ???


This is a sad state of affairs, when the person who CANNOT POSSIBLY WIN THE NOMINATION turns to racism and fearmongering to get the support she needs to continue her useless campaign, which is tearing the Democratic party in two better than any opposition party smear campaign ever could.
You WILL end up voting for that man, unless you are a political hack who posted here to mess with the democratic party process because you want to finish turning this country into a single-party, corporate-sponsored Fascist state.
I, too, have done research on him, and he knows more than you ever will about Democratic Values and Leadership and how lies and distortions are the OPPOSITE of what a Democracy is supposed to represent.

05/17/08 3:05 pm

Obama


I am so afraid if this man becomes president with his white hating wife. i have done research on him-he knows nothing about our great country Why does he have Hamas people from the Gaza Strip calling Americans to vote for him. i think Hillary is the best person for president. I will not vote for him

05/16/08 10:34 pm

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