Dean-hating "Bay Area Dem fundraiser" Wade Radlette is a known corpocrat.

[stickdog]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/06/07/MNdean07.TMP

But Dean's performance -- and his problems -- have become a concern to deep pocketed donors in California, particularly Silicon Valley, which is the No. 3 ATM for political fund-raising in the country, behind New York and Los Angeles, said Wade Randlett, a key party fund-raiser in the high tech center.

"He's got himself in trouble with social commentary, and that's not what the DNC chair does," Randlett said.

"For small donors, hearing 'George Bush is bad' is enough," Randlett said. "What I'm hearing very clearly from big donors is: tell me how we'll win."

Randlett said Dean has been criticized for not quickly improving the pace of fund-raising for the party with a recent Business Week story suggesting that he has been far outpaced by Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman.


Here's a well-known book on Randlett's rise to Corpocrat prominence:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374177147/psroadmap2-20/104-6219260-2119948

From a review of this book ( http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01/fU ):

On the surface, this is a witty study of a bagman for the Democratic Party, Wade Randlett, as Miles follows him around Silicon Valley during the late 1990s. Randlett is a power-hungry backroom operator who is trying to funnel Silicon Valley's wealth into the coffers of Clinton and Gore, by organizing astroturf committees and attending parties given by rich people. His only ideology might be called "opportunistic centrism."


Randlette is notorious in San Francisco for heading SFSOS, a PAC that unerringly supports corpocrats and targets progressives.

Here's a chart listing the top donors to Randlette's ostensibly Democratic SFSOS and who else they gave money to:

http://www.sfbg.com/38/51/cover_sfsos_chart.html

Let's just say that for some "unexplained" reason, the name BUSH appears more often than not.

[EFerrari]

1. Smells like Dean Spirit

Wow, is this corporatist afraid the sweaty classes will demand representation? Maybe he should call his Senator. Feinstein, that is. :sarcasm:

[NYCGirl]

2. Great work, Stickdog! Kudos to you for turning that up!

:yourock:

[stickdog]

3. I didn't have to "turn it up." This guy targeted my local SF neighborhood

supervisor who is a great guy and a long time progressive activist with disgustingly inaccurate and misleading hit piece after hit piece.

He's a true POS who almost invariably backs only corporate-loving, two-faced establishment DINOS, and I've worked long and hard to defeat his corpocratic astroturfing locally - with great success, I might add. :-)

[EFerrari]

4. Did he go after Jake? Because if he did, he's toast here. n/t

[stickdog]

6. Yes, he tried to hammer Jake like a nail, but some of us hammered back.

For example:

http://sf.indymedia.org/uploads/2004/10/lillian_sing_expo.pdf

[EFerrari]

7. I talked to Marlena a few times trying to get with her during the

campaign.

Jake is wonderful. When we hosted MoveOn's book release, he came out to the Bazaar Cafe and did some time with us and some SF political comics/djs.

[EFerrari]

5. Okay, I just read the Chronicle article.

I used to get published there every month or so. I stopped taking this RAG after the last stolen election.

And now, this is war. It's trying to kill Dean and by extension, our progressive coalition.

In San Francisco, no less.

Mr. Randlett hasn't even BEGUN to hear from us yet. He can take his dirty money and go jump into the Bay. I swear, I'm going to find a hard copy of this and mail it to him with some horseradish, because he's gonna eat. every. word.