From Roll Call via Raw:
It seems Rahm Emanuel want some more cash from Chairman Dean:
Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean are arguing about the best way to allocate party resources for the party's electoral efforts in the mid-term elections, today's issue of ROLL CALL reports...
Emanuel, who reportedly stormed out of a May meeting with Dean, penned a letter, dated June 22, to the party chairman demanding $100,000 per targeted district from the DNC to defray the cost of the DCCC's proposed field operation, several individuals who have read the letter said.
Attached to the letter was a sample field plan for a district, itemizing various projected expenses, down to details such as $1,500 for T-shirts. The expense plan was dated June 26, although it was unclear when Dean actually received the missive.
In making his monetary request, Emanuel cited the example of 1994, when, he said, the Republican National Committee earmarked $20 million for then-Speaker Newt Gingrich's successful drive for a House takeover. By contrast, Emanuel suggested that Dean had offered a woefully inadequate $20,000 per district.
But while his allies argue that Emanuel, through his record-setting fundraising for the DCCC, deserves wide latitude in shaping '06 strategy, Dean loyalists took the letter as hostile in nature, coming as it did after months of coy suggestions by Emanuel that Dean and the DNC were shirking their financial obligations to the DCCC's election year effort.
Memo to Rahm: Remember Tammy Duckworth? If you don't, a lot of us do. In fact, many of us stopped giving to the DCCC because of your antics, and funneled all of it to the DNC and Chairman Dean, a man who doesn't get improperly involved in Democratic primaries, instead.
So now you're telling us you want him to funnel our money to you?
Here's a clue Mr. Emanuel: Maybe if you still had that million or so you pissed away in March to beat a progressive Democrat, one who almost took down Hyde the last time around without any of your sorry money, you'd be in better shape. How much money did you actually spend on the Duckworth campaign? And how much time and effort was put into that campaign, or for that matter on helping Chuck Schumer get Paul Hackett to drop out of the OH-Sen primary so Chuck could get one of your own in a better sinecure in the Senate?
Well, in any event, you've got your own handpicked candidate for you own Chicago-area fiefdom. Nobody but you was looking for that. So I'm sure you can figure out the math and logic on what to do now all by your lonesome. Just don't ask those of us, who are utterly turned off by the machine-pol BS we get from DC Dems like yourself, to pony up. If we want to, we`ll do it ourselves, thank you..