Clinton Donors Offer to Pay for New Michigan Primary

These guys clearly have too much money:

WASHINGTON — Ten wealthy Democrats have offered to pay for a new presidential primary in Michigan — all with ties to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who showed up in the state Wednesday seeking a revote.

Five of the donors are listed on Clinton's campaign website as among her major fundraisers. All 10 have contributed to Clinton's presidential or Senate campaigns or the races run by former president Bill Clinton, according to federal data compiled by the non-profit Center for Responsive Politics.

The Michigan revote donors — including New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos and financier Roger Altman — have offered to put up $12 million to pay for a new election in June.

Corzine and Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, both Clinton backers, released the donors' names in a letter to Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm. The letter was aimed at demonstrating support for a do-over, so the state's voters could have a say in the hotly contested nomination battle. Barack Obama's supporters in the state have raised questions about logistics and costs.

George Soros, and Obama supporter, has declined to help out. He doesn't want a new primary.

Hillary is typically slippery on this whole thing. In a radio interview in October she acknowledged that the vote in Michigan would be meaningless, but in speeches yesterday she told the people that she left her name on the ballot "to protect the voters". What crap. She didn't care about the votes in Michigan last Fall because she didn't think she'd need them. Once that changed she became Michigan's biggest friend.

It doesn't appear that there will be a new vote because the Obama campaign has to approve the new plan and they don't seem too enthused. I think Obama would be just fine with keeping their delegates out or maybe settling for an even split, which would not be acceptable to the Clintons.

The war continues.