Heavy hitters raising cash for Democratic candidate Martin O’Malley.

[elleng]

Prominent members of a Massachusetts Democratic fund-raising network that boosted Barack Obama in 2008 and Deval Patrick two years earlier are hosting high-dollar events for presidential candidate Martin O’Malley on Tuesday.

The bulk of the state’s Democratic establishment, which splintered in 2008 between Obama and then-Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, has coalesced thus far behind Clinton. . .

But the three events in the Boston area reflect a residual disenchantment with the Democratic front-runner among some of the party’s local power brokers. . .

But the dynamics between the Clintons and supporters of Obama and Patrick have long been complicated, after Obama’s upstart run against Clinton in 2008, which Patrick — along with other top Massachusetts Democrats like Edward M. Kennedy and John F. Kerry — endorsed.

Tuesday’s events come as Sanders, a socialist, has carved out something of a niche as the liberal alternative to Clinton — a lane O’Malley backers had hoped he would fill. . .

The Boylston Street event is cohosted by, among others, Colette Phillips, a Boston public relations executive who was also an early donor to Obama and Patrick, according to federal and state campaign finance records. Private equity executive David Belluck, a heavy Obama fund-raiser who has helped O’Malley build his Massachusetts network in the past, is also among the cohosts.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/06/29/obama-patrick-fundraisers-host-events-for-malley/jRcAG0yJpTlw3qUHkXPQeO/story.html

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. Oops, dont like this crap

Tuesday’s events come as Sanders, a socialist

[orpupilofnature57]

2. After all the name dropping and associated connections, then what .

[FSogol]

4. Sanders calls himself a socialist. Why does it matter if the Boston Globe calls him

one?

[JustAnotherGen]

5. That's a good point

He's running towards that.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

8. Calls himself Democratic Socialist, and if that is how he identifies now, as opposed to back

when then that is how he should be referred to.

I dont want to argue about it because I am with you on all this... but whether it is the ole Democrat vs Democratic stuff or this, it is to ALL our benefit to be ever vigil as at the end of the day, we are all on the same side.

Now, many Bernie supporters on this message board are not what I would call liberals, at all.

Many seem to me to be white middle class libertarians who are focused on their personal finances and nothing else.

The endless nonsense of rewriting history as to what MLK said and meant and focused on, is the best example.

[FSogol]

9. WRONG. Here's an article by Sanders on his .gov page where he refers to himself as a Socialist 4-5

times. Not once does he call himself a Democratic Socialist. Stop trying to have it both ways. If he calls himself a socialist, it is wrong to whine that the Boston Globe calls him a socialist.

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/sanders-socialist-successes

Reminder; you are posting on the O'Malley group.

[FSogol]

3. K&R. n/t

[JustAnotherGen]

6. This is excellent!

[elleng]

7. YES!