collecting "small" donations and they've already amassed a decent sum. That said, "data" is no small part of what they're all about and they will fold into the campaign once an announcement is made:
Ready for Hillary has amassed a list of roughly 3 million supporters and raised nearly $11 million - including many contributions of $20.16 - in hopes of encouraging Clinton to run.
The database was a main goal of the organization, and much of the infrastructure Ready for Hillary built could fold into an official Clinton campaign once she announces and Ready for Hillary folds its tent, Ickes said.
Planned obsolescence was always the strategy behind Ready for Hillary, and the New York donorfest Friday served as something a valedictory for an organization that founders said far surpassed their original goals.
Under federal election rules, super PACs cannot directly coordinate certain kinds of fundraising and other activities with candidates, but Ready for Hillary is planning a legal way to make its list available to a Clinton 2016 campaign.
"If she decides to run she will have the ability to access that list," as part of a critical early database of potential supporters, Ickes said. The lesson of Barack Obama's 2008 and 2012 campaigns "underscored the importance of data, modeling, and the ability to identify and connect with individual voters."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/11/21/potential-hillary-supporters-told-inevitability-is-not-a-campaign-strategy/
They can't coordinate (yet) because that's illegal, but RFH is certainly a bellweather. It would not continue to exist if HRC wasn't serious about running.
The two co-founders of RFH are political babes in the woods...or they were. Here's an interesting piece about them:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/02/ready-for-hillary-clinton-super-pac
He's a 28-year-old reserve police officer completing a bachelor's degree in criminology at Virginia's George Mason University. She's a 62-year-old Eleanor Roosevelt scholar and history professor at George Washington University in DC. Adam Parkhomenko and Allida Black are unlikely friends; they are the even unlikelier masterminds of Ready for Hillary, a super-PAC that has risen from ragtag origins to become a central component of Hillary Clinton's shadow presidential campaign-in-waiting.
Parkhomenko and Black fall well outside the Clintons' rarefied inner circle of advisers, consultants, fundraisers, and confidantes. Both are Hillary superfans who until very recently were political neophytes. Yet since cofounding Ready for Hillary in January 2013, they've managed to raise $4 million, which they are channeling into building a massive database of supporters and volunteers that will become the foundation for Clinton's presidential run if she jumps into the race. (Within the Ready for Hillary world, there's little doubt that leap will come.) Parkhomenko and Black have also attracted key Clinton aides and allies to their super-PAC and thus have obtained the unofficial blessing of the Clintons themselves. These two groupies have worked their way backstage to hang out with the band.
As you can see, that 2nd source is old, as that four million is now likely well over that eleven million cited back in NOV 14.
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I will save future donations for her official campaign.
