On Which Planet Resides Joe Andrew ?
Submitted by kmissik on May 1, 2008 - 8:49am.
Democratic politics
Since he couldn't be more wrong on pretty much every point he makes, I'm wondering on which planet Joe Andrews, former DNC head, spends most of his time.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120962832953558997.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_leftbox
I can see I'll have to get off my own letter to him later today, as well to my own rep, Ben Chandler, who has come out for O. That one was very disappointing.
what a concept! Would love to see a list of amts contributed to SD's by each campaign.
The General gets it right.
Competence--What a concept!

Try this one, just posted at one of the Yahoo! groups.
Stan Davis
Lakewood, CO
Wes Clark -- Make America All It Can Be!
Pretty revealing--esp. in re the 2008 donations. But, of course, money doesn't matter to politicians, who are all about factually evaluating the candidates--not :)!!
The General gets it right.
Competence--What a concept!
It's also "well known" that hillary has been pulling strings for super D votes, that is how she started out with the lead, she was the connected one.. I've heard of more than a few Clinton supers switching to Obama, the same has hardly been true of Obama supers switching to Clinton...
Joe Andrew just knows that overturning the popular vote and the pledged delegate count when this is over will be electoral suicide and will create an irrreperable breach with the AA vote, the youth vote and the much disdained "latte vote".
Plus Hillary aided the media hit squad by joining in the hoopla over Wright, she was out of line inserting herself into that imho. Maybe what she did is all fine and dandy with all of you, but it has ruffled some feathers, and it may end up costing her the nomination.

unless you throw out a populous state or two or refuse to count those votes
this is a complete farce

An Endorsement Not On The Merits
Is Obama gonna be a better President? No. Apparently Andrew still thinks Hillary Clinton will be a better President. Is there an issue that moves Andrew? No. Is Obama even more electable than Clinton? Um, no. So why switch? The primary contest is taking too long. Okay. Now there is a winning endorsement. Sheesh.
Clinton picks up a CT superdelegate.
"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood of ideas in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." JFK

I can't find it googling.
Once in a while you get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right.

Via Taylor Marsh; h/t Ironman
Joseph J. Andrew, Partner
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal
Washington DC
Snail Mail:
1301 K Street, N.W.
Suite 600, East Tower
Washington, DC 20005-3364
Education:
The Yale Law School, J.D., 1985
Yale University, B.A., 1982, Scholar of the House
Practice Areas:
Public Law & Policy Strategies
Advisory Services
Congressional Investigations
Political Compliance
Corporate Practice
Banking & Finance
Corporate Governance
Fund Services
Venture Capital/Emerging Growth Company Group
Mergers & Acquisitions
Life Sciences
Professional Profile:
For more than 20 years, Mr. Andrew has practiced corporate law, focusing on mergers and acquisitions of regulated companies. In addition, because he served as the National Chair of the Democratic National Committee, Mr. Andrew advises companies and organizations on the larger policy issues involved in each transaction. He has represented many Fortune 1000 companies in negotiating acquisitions, spin-offs, financings, corporate governance disputes and structuring capital market products and organizations to meet their needs.
Best known as a negotiator, Mr. Andrew has led teams that have negotiated major contracts, merged or acquired companies, formed joint ventures and founded new companies. Since joining Sonnenschein in 2004, Mr. Andrew has been involved in negotiating deals worth in excess of $100 billion dollars, including three Fortune 500 mergers in the health care and insurance areas.
Mr. Andrew has counseled companies worldwide on their corporate and policy strategies in a variety of industries, ranging from technology companies to regulated companies in the insurance, energy, life science, banking and telecommunications fields, to foreign acquirers and heads of state. He also advises corporations on issues arising from Capitol Hill, the White House, administrative agencies, and on policy matters in the 50 states.
Mr. Andrew has worked on many “front page” policy, legislative and regulatory efforts over the past several years. He also has assisted in the formation and representation of private, equity venture, and hedge funds and was an early practitioner in the financial information public strategy arena. Mr. Andrew has assisted in the planning and implementation of corporate social responsibility programs, and counsels companies in times of crisis.
In January 1999 while serving as the Indiana State Democratic Chair, President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and the Democratic leadership in the U.S. Congress asked Mr. Andrew to become the National Chair of the Democratic National Committee. He was elected in February 1999 and served until February 2001. Mr. Andrew was one of the youngest national chairs in the nearly 200-year history of the DNC and widely recognized as one of the most successful. Mr. Andrew brought the party out of debt, raised nearly a quarter-billion dollars, hired and managed the most diverse staff in the history of the party, and successfully served as the CEO of an organization with thousands of employees on election day. Mr. Andrew is an entrepreneur, a published author, a frequent speaker on political and demographic trends, a board member of several nonprofit organizations, and a member of various progressive policy organizations. He is the founder of a socially responsible mutual fund, a biotech consulting firm, and numerous not for profits. In addition to his corporate legal background, he is a leader in corporate social responsibility, socially conscious investing, historic preservation, smart growth and urban planning. He frequently speaks on those issues, as well as election law reform and electronic voting. His spy novel, The Disciples, was published by Simon & Schuster, as was his most recent book on progressive investing and economic trends, The Blue Way.
Mr. Andrew is a graduate of Wayne High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Yale University where he was a Scholar of the House, and The Yale Law School. He clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Admitted to the Bar:
District of Columbia
Indiana
New York

Excellent. Will work on a letter when I get home. I like the empty KoolAid package idea! LOL!!
Once in a while you get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right.

New Obama Surrogate Joe Andrew Goes Negative Right Out Of the Chute
Once in a while you get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right.

Undeterred by the fact that the Clinton campaign has said nothing about him, Andrew decides to go nuclear negative on the Clintons (and his HuffPo post is even worse):
"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood of ideas in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." JFK
So I googled him. Joe was DNC Chair from 1999-2001 -- the election we lost the White House.
May he help Obama as much as he helped Gore.
Thanks, I hadn't noticed that I misspelled Mr. Andrew's name. ; )

"The ship is taking on water right now," Andrew said at the news conference.
There's a ship taking on water all right. The Hope Boat. They can't bail fast enuff. The only way to bail "him" out is to stop the voting.
Better it sinks now rather than later.
Another spineless boob. "Get some starch!"
I've read Mr. Andrew's comments, which, of course, fly in the face of what the voters have been expressing. His endorsement is so stupid, that I think it, along with his additional comments, should be treated as the irrelevant junk that they are. Anything to try to bait and divert attention from the sinking O boat. Hillary should keep doing the good work she's been doing and ignore this stuff. That goes for her campaign too. I think we may be about to see some more desperate attempts at provocation or other forms of news creation.

this is absolutely correct, kmissik.
Don't take the bait. Keep focused.
The teevee pinheads were all over this while I endured my one hour per day of BS during lunch. Proof positive it is nothing more than a well designed distraction. Pffftttt. ;)
I contributed to him when Wes asked us to during his last campaign. Don't think I'll feel so generous next time. He obviously is not in touch with the rank and file Democrats in his state.

He's been a partner since 2004 with
Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, who just coincidentally happen to be #4 on Obama's Top Donor list. They've given him $74,950.
Hmmmmm. One has to wonder about Mr. Andrew, eh? Did he really just change his mind about supporting O!? I think not. I think it was another of their politically timed "good news" bogus announcements to take the story off of other unpleasant things that are tanking O!'s chances of winning the nomination. Cretins.
Once in a while you get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right.

I haven't looked to see if it's the case with Andrews....but it's well known that BO is buying delegates. He has "contributed" much more to SuperDs that Hillary has