Political Strategery:
Part of the Democratic 50-State strategy is the idea that Democrats can be competitive in areas considered to be ‘Red / Republican States’. The Wall Street Journal reports on this project; the Democrats are more conservative than others, but…
A big piece in the news about a high-ranking member of a financial firm who was fired for not going out and raising money for Mitt Romney, as per emailed orders from managment.
“This is not about me trying to force a political candidate on you and trying to see how you vote,” Mr. Holdren wrote in one email, dated Jan. 27, 2008, to Huron managing directors, the firm’s senior executives. “This is just business and the way business works.”
In another email, dated Sept. 21, 2007, Mr. Holdren wrote, “I wanted to thank all of you who contributed to Mitt Romney. You can’t realize how much leverage this gives Huron going forward to ask various people for business.”