Same firm does voter contact work for robo-call group, Clinton campaign
In our earlier investigation revealing the outfit behind the misleading and illegal robo-calls made to North Carolina voters just days before a critical primary election, we reported that questions have been raised about the connections between that group -- the D.C.-based nonprofit Women's Voices Women Vote -- and the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.
We noted, for example, that WVWV Founder and President Page Gardner has donated generously to Clinton and to HILLPAC, but has given nothing to the Obama campaign, according to OpenSecrets.org. We also noted that WVWV Executive Director Joe Goode previously worked as a pollster for Bill Clinton, and that WVWV board member John Podesta is the former chief of staff for President Clinton as well as a Hillary Clinton donor.
There are other connections that we did not mention, but that have been pointed out in comments here and at other sites. For example, Maggie Williams is a former member of WVWV's leadership team, according to Sourcewatch.org; she also served as chief of staff to First Lady Hillary Clinton and to the Clinton Foundation in New York, and she was named the manager of Clinton's campaign in February. And Holly Schadler, WVWV's attorney, helped set up the Back to Business Committee in 1994 to defend Bill and Hillary Clinton from attacks by political enemies.
But one of the most striking connections between WVWV and the Clinton campaign -- and one particularly relevant to a story involving what appear to be voter suppression efforts right before an election -- was pointed out to us by a reader. He notes that the firm in charge of voter outreach for WVWV is MSHC Partners, whose president is Hal Malchow. Sourcewatch.org reports that Malchow was a member of WVWV's leadership team.
At the same time, MSHC also does direct mail and outreach for the Hillary Clinton campaign. In fact, the campaign owes MSHC $807,000, according to Politico.com.
We noted, for example, that WVWV Founder and President Page Gardner has donated generously to Clinton and to HILLPAC, but has given nothing to the Obama campaign, according to OpenSecrets.org. We also noted that WVWV Executive Director Joe Goode previously worked as a pollster for Bill Clinton, and that WVWV board member John Podesta is the former chief of staff for President Clinton as well as a Hillary Clinton donor.
There are other connections that we did not mention, but that have been pointed out in comments here and at other sites. For example, Maggie Williams is a former member of WVWV's leadership team, according to Sourcewatch.org; she also served as chief of staff to First Lady Hillary Clinton and to the Clinton Foundation in New York, and she was named the manager of Clinton's campaign in February. And Holly Schadler, WVWV's attorney, helped set up the Back to Business Committee in 1994 to defend Bill and Hillary Clinton from attacks by political enemies.
But one of the most striking connections between WVWV and the Clinton campaign -- and one particularly relevant to a story involving what appear to be voter suppression efforts right before an election -- was pointed out to us by a reader. He notes that the firm in charge of voter outreach for WVWV is MSHC Partners, whose president is Hal Malchow. Sourcewatch.org reports that Malchow was a member of WVWV's leadership team.
At the same time, MSHC also does direct mail and outreach for the Hillary Clinton campaign. In fact, the campaign owes MSHC $807,000, according to Politico.com.
Labels: facing south, hillary clinton, MSHC, north carolina primary, Page Gardner, robo-calls, voting rights, women's voices women vote
4 Comments:
Hal Malchow is apparently Page Gardner's husband. At least their FEC filings show the same domestic address.
The group doing the robocalls, WVWV, is also a client of Harold Ickes' firm Catalist (scroll down at this link):
http://www.catalist.us/clients.html#1
Stax:
And if the commenter at 1:53 pm today on the following thread is correct:
http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2008/04/facing-south-exclusive-dc-nonprofit.asp
then Page Gardner's organization paid Malchow's firms at least half a million in 2006 (and if the "HMSHC" referenced is a typo and refers to "MSHC Partners", then it paid Malchow firms over $3 million) .
Here's a bio with his professional associations listing both Predicted Lists and MSHC Partners: http://www.womma.org/summit2/speakers/#s5114
Get a grip, people.
This is a ridiculous faux controversy.
EVERYBODY is a client of Catalist, including Obama's campaign.
If these were suppression tactics, doncha think this would've come up 2 years ago?
(And wisconsin has same-day registration, so no one is EVER disenfranchised there...)
I'll see y'all on the grassy knoll cooking up the next piece of paranoiac BS gumbo.
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