Opinion: Transition alert: Obama’s change agenda on-hold til you pay DNC debts

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The Ticket reported, jokingly, the other day about the latest Barack Obama fundraising appeal.

He’s the fellow who raised way more than $605 million and, would you believe it, won the presidential election campaign to bring real change to Washington.

As an important part of changing the money culture of Washington he was asking for another $30 donation from everyone on the e-mail list.

It seems that in addition to his 6/10ths of a billion dollars to move into the White House, the Democratic National Committee spent way more than the $100 million in cash it had raised.

In fact, it took out ‘substantial loans.’

Well, it turns out now, the DNC’s debts are far worse than originally imagined. Today, Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe sent another urgent e-mail to supporters seeking at least another $30.

Here’s what he said:

‘We’ll get to work transforming this country. But first, we need to take care of the DNC.’

Did we hear that right? Now that Obama’s the president-elect, the top priority is the Democratic National Committee?

To drive home the point elsewhere in the same e-mail Plouffe adds: ‘Before we do anything else, we need to pay for this winning strategy.’

Don’t worry, you still get the Victory T-shirt for this $30. But it sounds like pretty much everything else is on hold. This change stuff is looking to be an expensive process, even before it gets started.

--Andrew Malcolm

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