Clinton Supporters To Protest Outside Ohio Democratic Party Headquarters Today

[mod mom]

As I was making my children's lunches this morning I thought I heard the local NPR news person say that Clinton supporters were planning a protest outside of Ohio Democratic Party Headquarters today. I thought I had heard it wrong because as many of you know our Governor, Ted Strickland, has been heavily featured alongside the Clinton Campaign (it unfortunately earned him the label Governor Bobblehead). He held a Clinton supporters thank you party at our Governor's Mansion. How could the Clinton folks be upset when perhaps the most prominent Dem in the state catered to Hillary Clinton? So I googled and found this:

Obama, Clinton supporters to campaign in Columbus



Associated Press - May 14, 2008 6:15 PM ET

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A labor union endorsing presidential candidate Barack Obama brought a national campaign to Columbus today addressing the need for comprehensive health care changes.

The Road to American Health Care, sponsored by the Service Employees International Union, planned a Statehouse rally featuring Ohioans struggling with health care costs.

Separately, a group supporting Obama's opponent in the Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton, said they will protest outside Ohio Democratic Party headquarters in Columbus tomorrow.

The group calls itself "Clinton Supporters Count Too" and promises to highlight what it says is unfavorable treatment of Clinton by the party. The group says it will campaign against Obama in the swing states of Florida, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania if he wins over Clinton.

-snip

http://www.wfmj.com/Global/story.asp?S=8325654




-A labor union endorsing Obama brought a national campaign to Columbus Wednesday addressing the need for comprehensive health care changes. The Road to American Health Care, sponsored by the Service Employees International Union, planned a Statehouse rally featuring Ohioans struggling with health care costs.

-A group calling itself "Clinton Supporters Count Too" announced a protest outside Ohio Democratic Party headquarters in Columbus Thursday to highlight what it said was unfavorable treatment of Clinton by the Democratic party. The group says it would campaign against Obama in the swing states of Florida, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania if he wins over Clinton.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OH_THE_RACE_IN_08_MCCAIN_OHOL-?SITE=OHWOO&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

GREAT SO WHILE OBAMA SUPPORTERS ARE ATTEMPTING TO BRING FOCUS ON HEALTHCARE, HILLARY SUPPORTERS WILL PROTEST ODP. :eyes:

[madfloridian]

1. Her supporters also protested outside the DNC...while saying they were not her supporters.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/2051

It is too often not about party or being a Democrat, it is about her campaign.

[Debi]

7. Reminds you of the 2000 Florida recount, doesn't it?

Who organized THAT protest???? :eyes:

[Cha]

51. Another karl rove tactic that appeals to

brown shirt types.

[Debi]

53. Hmmmm

[Debi]

2. Well, won't that help to unite the party

x(

[yardwork]

3. Clinton supporters say they will campaign against Obama in swing states?

Those sound like Republicans to me.

[nxylas]

4. I hope they bring their pots and pans

:wtf:

[Debi]

17. Ha! Those were the days!

[flor de jasmim]

5. So now will her supporters here stop saying it's good that she's still in the race?!

Enough already!

[pbca]

6. Obviously

"The group says it will campaign against Obama in the swing states of Florida, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania if he wins over Clinton."

That's because Clinton supporters are Republicans - obviously they'll campaign against Obama

[Kittycat]

8. Well, this remark shows that they're clearly not democrats, anyway.

"The group says it will campaign against Obama in the swing states of Florida, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania if he wins over Clinton."

Democrats know there is too much to lose if McSame is elected, so a true democrat wouldn't do that after we have a presumptive nominee.

[EFerrari]

9. I wonder about this group. If they're that organized

something doesn't add up. . . . .

[mod mom]

15. Did you read the comments posted on the NARAL blog from yesterday?

http://www.blogforchoice.com/archives/2008/05/naral-prochoice-6.html#comments

I am afraid she has used the victim card to rev up her supporters in an unhealthy way.

[EFerrari]

29. I'm sure that is also happening. But this group's MO is a little different.

Or, maybe it's just me. After I post the ERD, I'll poke around some. :)

[ShortnFiery]

34. This is some sick radical shit ... these people only know team work when it causes a riot.

:nuke:

[Debi]

10. The Hillary 2012 campaign is starting a little early isn't it??? n/t

[sniffa]

22. But where are the pots and pans?

:shrug:

[Debi]

38. Post #17

:p

[ShortnFiery]

37. F*CK THEM! We will not give into intimidation. It's time to stand up to these BULLIES.

:grr:

[Debi]

43. This crap should convince some of the Hillary supporters that this campaign

wasn't about the Democratic Party but about her ascension to the throne!

[TexasObserver]

11. Roid Rage.

Hemmer, not Ster.

[rucky]

12. These are Dittoheads - straight-up.

Ohio's loaded with 'em.

[redqueen]

13. They're not pretending that they're not Hillary supporters this time?

No more astroturf?


:rofl:

[goclark]

16. So when will Her Majesty tell them to stop it

?

[Pirate Smile]

14. They are going on O'Reilly tonight.

Clinton backer backlash


My colleague Beth Frerking reports on something we're likely to hear a lot more about in coming days: Grumblings from the almost-half of the party, disproportionately women, whose candidate is losing.

"An Ohio-based group of Democratic Hillary Clinton supporters say they’ll work actively against Sen. Barack Obama if he becomes the nominee, arguing that Clinton has been the subject of “intense sexism” by party leaders and the media.

Led by Boomer-aged women, the group, Clinton Supporters Count Too, is holding a press conference in Columbus at noon to release this statement.

Organizers Cynthia Ruccia, 55, and Jamie Dixey, 57, both from the Columbus area, say they’re coordinating women, men, minorities, union members and others in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan – all important swing states next November – to impress upon Democratic party leaders what they think has been outright discrimination – and not of the racial kind.

“We have been vigilant against expressions of racism, and we are thrilled that the society has advanced that way” in accepting Obama as a serious candidate,” Ruccia said. “But it’s been open season on women, and we feel we need to stand up and make a statement about that, because it’s wrong.”

With growing calls for Clinton to leave the race, she said, women feel like “we’re being told to sit down, shut up, and get with the program.”'

Hard to know what to make of any given group, but the sentiment is clealry out there, and putting the party back together will be Obama's, and Clinton's, challenge.

Oh, and they're doing O'Reilly tonight, of course.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Clinton_backer_backlash.html

[mod mom]

23. THESE ARE DEMS! One of these 2 woman appearing on O'reilly is a Dem Ward Person for my city!

Off to pass this around! UFB!

[WA98070]

25. Then find out how to impeach her or whatever it takes to legally remove her from office...

[mod mom]

28. She even ran for congress as a Dem in Ohio:

Ohio Dist 12 in 1996:

http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/Facts/Elections/CanHiResults96.html

[AllentownJake]

24. Pots and Pans

Bang away.

[Cha]

52. Please Rec'd this, Jake..

It needs to be read far and wide..they will not get away with their Bullying.

[Erin Elizabeth]

46. SHE. FUCKING. LOST.

I am beyond being out of patience with Hillary supporters who act like someone disembowled their first born baby and then fed it to a tiger.

[sniffa]

18. So, they're going to work for McCain in the swing states?

Did I read that right?

[Ichingcarpenter]

19. All they want is

"SEPARATE BUT EQUAL" presidential primaries and elections.

[last1standing]

20. Hillary needs to actively denounce this before an Obama group threatens the same thing.

I'm not trying to pin this on Hillary - she can't be held responsible for what a few crazy-assed supporters do in her name. However, if she denounces their actions while asking them to come back to policies they supported when they voted for her, it would yank the rug from under their feet. After that, they'd no longer be "Hillary supporters" and no longer be news.

[AllentownJake]

27. She won't

this is part of her trying to blackmail the democratic party into making her the nominee. I'm beginning to think that this big surprise that will sink Obama isn't anything Obama has done. I'm thinking its her nutbag supporters taking to the streets threatning to help McCain.

[ShortnFiery]

42. Not. This. Time.

No fucking way is it going to "whip up" sympathy for HER HIGHNESS.

Think of the story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf?"

Stay strong and expect anything. :thumbsup:

[AllentownJake]

47. I'm not worried

I just think that's her plan.

The democratic party won't have it and if she tries this she'll be chairing comittees with Lieberman in January in the senate cloak room.

[ShortnFiery]

41. She won't = The Clintons FEED OFF of controversy. Do we really want 8 more years of soap operas?!?

[HootieMcBoob]

21. These people are nuts n/t

[AngryOldDem]

26. Not exactly how to endear yourselves to the party.

Incredible.

[4themind]

30. Meanwhile Bush is doing a hit job on one of our candidates...

and in recommendations from even the bipartisan 9-11 commission.

[Justitia]

45. No Kidding! Did these idiots ever "protest" George Bush w/such vigor??? F'ing jerks. -eom

[ShortnFiery]

31. This is bullshit. HRC has been treated like political royalty. Her time has come and GONE.

But she IS a sore loser. :thumbsdown:

[Cha]

54. No Kidding! This needs to be Rec'd so more

peeps can be aware of the damage hilary's supporters perpetrate.

[lojasmo]

32. dipshits. EOM

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[Debi]

40. Oh GREAT - Grovelbot is protesting! I guess we now know who DU supports

x(

[crankychatter]

35. protesting the DNC?

I'm just stunned

who are these people, really?

[wileedog]

36. Protesting what? Losing?

[DadOf2LittleAngels]

39. Anyone suprised!

The Queen will be president and should she lose the primary the only way she can achieve that is if Abe Simpson is elected that way in 2012 we will have a nation potentially worse off than it is today with an open seat in the WH. If Obama wins Hillary would either have to run against an incumbent in 2012 for her own parties nomination ( someone who she could not beat with every advantage in the world ) or hope that the Obama administration implodes..

Her best hope is a McCain win in the general then she can say 'I told you so' and run in 2012.. in 2016 se will be up on McCains age and will have to settle like Ted Kennedy into a permanent senate position..

[ShortnFiery]

44. We need to stop the sympathy and TELL HER that 2012 is OUT if she goes "scorched earth"

because it is. The Clintons will be INFAMOUS if they pull this off. The NEWS (Internet) will get disseminated ... I don't think these 60 somethings truly embrace how their LEGACY will be trashed if they continue?

[AtomicKitten]

48. "unfair treatment" = she lost, and they're simply not having any of THAT

Oy.

[Cha]

49. Rec'd! This needs to be on the front page as it is

typical selfish, victim mentality of hilary's supporters(who learned from the top). I'm sure they didn't leave home without their stupid pots and pans, either..and it will be so endemic of hilary supporters to go around the different states, whining and banging on their pots and pans against Obama.

The cartoonists will have a field day with hilary the laughing stock of the Nation..that she brought on herself.

[Emillereid]

50. Who are these assholes? I think there is something about Clinton that brings

out this kind of betrayal - it's childish and petty. 'Cut off your nose to spite your face' behavior!

[crickets]

55. INSANE.

Their candidate didn't win, so they're going to sabotage the frontrunner with protests about "unfavorable treatment of Clinton by the Democratic party"? In what universe does this make sense? Voters voted, Clinton started strong but didn't hang on to her lead, Obama is in the process of locking up the last of the delegates he needs to be officially declared the winner, the end. This not "unfavorable treatment of Clinton" - it's called losing. Unfortunately, all but one of the candidates will do this in every election. That's the way it works. I'm boggled that grown women can't deal with this like, you know... grown women.

WTH is in the kool-aid? :eyes:

[Yael]

56. Another Pot & Pan Fun Day?

:rofl: