She seemed to make decisions on her own and let us know at the last minute what she had decided, as she had done when she told us about the hacking only minutes before the Washington Post broke the news.īy signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. In my experience she didn’t come to the officers of the DNC for advice and counsel. If I didn’t know about this, I assumed that none of the other officers knew about it, either. Hillary for America (the campaign) and the Hillary Victory Fund (its joint fundraising vehicle with the DNC) had taken care of 80 percent of the remaining debt in 2016, about $10 million, and had placed the party on an allowance. Obama’s campaign was not scheduled to pay it off until 2016. Obama left the party $24 million in debt-$15 million in bank debt and more than $8 million owed to vendors after the 2012 campaign-and had been paying that off very slowly. Officials from Hillary’s campaign had taken a look at the DNC’s books. “I am an officer of the party and they’ve been telling us everything is fine and they were raising money with no problems.” He told me the Democratic Party was broke and $2 million in debt. The Saturday morning after the convention in July, I called Gary Gensler, the chief financial officer of Hillary’s campaign. How much control Brooklyn had and for how long was still something I had been trying to uncover for the last few weeks.īy September 7, the day I called Bernie, I had found my proof and it broke my heart. She hadn’t been very interested in controlling the party-she let Clinton’s headquarters in Brooklyn do as it desired so she didn’t have to inform the party officers how bad the situation was.
It had become dependent on her campaign for survival, for which she expected to wield control of its operations.ĭebbie was not a good manager.
As Hillary’s campaign gained momentum, she resolved the party’s debt and put it on a starvation diet. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, had not been the most active chair in fundraising at a time when President Barack Obama’s neglect had left the party in significant debt.
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