by Mark Silva
It's back to fundraising for President Barack Obama, as Hans Nichols and Jonathan D. Salant of Bloomberg News report.
The president will headline the first fundraiser of his presidency this month, "appealing to donors large and small even as the economy struggles through the worst recession in generations,'' they note.
"Obama's appearance at the Democratic National Committee's March 25 event at the Warner Theatre in Washington, with tickets ranging from $100 to $2,500 per person, will be an early test of his ability to keep up the record-breaking fundraising he achieved during the campaign,'' reports Bloomberg, noting: "That may be difficult. While the president's approval rating remains above 60 percent in most polls, the U.S. is mired
in the most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression.''
"After an election cycle, you're dealing with donor fatigue," explains Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, in charge of raising money for vulnerable House
Democrats. "Then you have the added layer of difficulty of the economy really hitting people hard."
See the Bloomberg report on Obama's fundraising challenge.
Comments
Don't worry, SEIU and its Change to Win puppets will continue make payments toward enactment of the Employee-free Choice Act, which will give them more and more free money from workers and their employers to pass on to...you guessed it. But, if Obama really believes any employee who wants to be represented by a union should be able to be, he should support members-only bargaining. The National Labor Board, the first board FDR created to implement the employee right to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, ordered elections when: 1. two unions disputed representation, 2. an employer questioned a union's claim of majority representation, or 3. when a substantial number of employees made the request. However, majority representation was not a prerequisite for bargaining on behalf of members only. By appointing an NLRB General Counsel who will enforce minority-union bargaining rights under existing law, as urged by prominent labor law professor Charles J. Morris in 2007, Obama can eliminate any need to gut the employee right to a fair and free secret ballot election conducted by a neutral agency of the US Government prior to vesting majority representation rights in a union, as the Employee-free Choice Act would do.
Posted by: Don't Sell the Vote | March 16, 2009 12:17 PM
"Back to" politicking???
When has Obama NOT been politicking? His campaigning is 24/7, 365 days a year.
Posted by: Inconvenient Truths | March 16, 2009 2:21 PM
What a shame Obama doesn't need to sell candy or cookie dough to raise money or use one of the other fundraising ideas you'd find on a site like Easy Fundraising Ideas.
Posted by: Howard | March 19, 2009 9:29 AM