Opinion: Cash for the candidate - maybe
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A Los Angeles-based web site ostensibly raising money for Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign apparently has raised a little attention from the campaign itself, which is asking Californians for Obama to stop their activities.
The project, according to its website, was launched before Obama declared his candidacy, and its purpose was to build grassroots support to persuade him to run. After Obama declared, the project kept going – yet it hasn’t spent money on getting Obama the nomination, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. But it has spent money on the guy in charge, Emmett Cash III (now there’s a name that works). The group has scheduled a “Women of Power” cruise for September, though the Chron reports performer Eartha Kitt, whose name appears at the top of the list of on-board celebrities and politicos, has no intention of going.
Cash told the Chron that the group’s board of directors will meet to decide how to respond to the Obama campaign’s demand.
--Scott Martelle
