The name of senior Clinton strategist Harold Ickes is being floated as a likely successor to Democratic Party chief Terry McAuliffe, who's expected to step down after presiding over a second campaign that yielded disappointing results for Democrats.
"Harold Ickes, the former Clinton aide who led a 2004 advertising and turnout drive outside the Democratic Party's, could seek to succeed McAuliffe as party chairman," reports today's Wall Street Journal.
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"He's an ally of Sen. Clinton," the paper adds - in perhaps the understatement of the month.
Ickes was the architect of Hillary Clinton's successful 2000 Senate campaign, after running the Clinton White House's aggressive Chinagate fund-raising operation in 1996.
In 2002, after Sen. Clinton complained to Sen. Russ Feingold that campaign finance reform would make much of the party's fund-raising practices illegal, Ickes was assigned to carve out loopholes in the new law.
He came up with the concept of using 527 groups like the Media Fund, which Ickes headed, to raise tens of millions of dollars in soft money from liberal fat cats like George Soros and Peter Lewis.
Reporting on the prospect of Ickes' installation as the party's top official, radio host Rush Limbaugh said the move shows the Democratic Party remains firmly under the control of the Clintons.
"This is proof positive that [Democrats] are not going to do what they need to do to win," he told his audience.
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