Clinton Raises A Million in Norcal
by Josh Gerstein
Mon, 26 Mar 2007 at 1:31 AM
updated Mon, 26 Mar 2007 at 1:50 AM
Senator Clinton crisscrossed the San Francisco Bay area Sunday, pocketing about $1 million for her campaign, according to a spokesman. That's on top of $2.6 million raised Saturday night at a gala in L.A. Those tallies will help Mrs. Clinton post an impressive total for her first-quarter fundraising report, which closes March 31. My story on her visit is here.
Attendees at the closed-to-press fund-raisers told me Mrs. Clinton went out of her way to stress her ability to work with Republicans and to make compromises. That's a dreaded word among liberal bloggers, but among the well-heeled that message seems to resonate. Talk of compromise addresses Mrs. Clinton's key vulnerability: concern that she's too polarizing. "If I don't think she's electable, I'm not going to vote for her," a donor at one of Sunday's events, Tracy Demiroz, said.
Mrs. Clinton started off her day with some damage control stemming from an incident involving Asian-American reporters at a fund-raiser she did in the area about a month ago. While chatting with Asian journalists, one of Mrs. Clinton's backers, Ginger Lew, used an interesting example to suggest that the former first lady would be more sensitive to Asian concerns than is President Bush. Ms. Lew, a former general counsel of the Commerce Department under President Clinton, noted that one of the U.S. Attorneys dismissed recently by the Bush Administration, Carol Lam of San Diego, is Asian. Ms. Lew also said Ms. Lam was the only woman dismissed, which is not the case. The White House also sacked one other woman, Maragret Chiara of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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