DCCC Night Out At The WWE
While Pres. Bush helped Republican governors raise a record sum at the national Building Museum on Monday night, the senior staff of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee took a rare night off to watch heads gets bashed, arms get twisted and sweaty men prance around in tights.
Just a block from the building museum, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) was in town.
Bill Burton, the DCCC's communications director, Ali Wade, the campaign director, and Jon Vogel, the northeast political director, are pictured here with wrestler Mick Foley.
They were guests of the WWE's Smackdown Your Vote program, which aims to turn young wrestling fans into wrestling fans who vote. (Yes, it's a great PR move for WWE, too -- and so is the cultivation of high-level Washington power-brokers.)
Plenty of GOPers were in attendence (we saw the RNC's Carolyn Weyforth and the NRSC's Brian Walton) -- though because of a ticket mix-up, they were seated in the nosebleed sections.
RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman, ever alert to targeting opportunities, loves the WWE's outreach and particularly its demographic appeal. Mehlman recently taped a podcast with WWE's Chris Nowinski. And he would have been at the Monday event, too, were it not for his loyalty to Pres. Bush.
JOHN LAPP TOOK THIS PICTURE BECAUSE HE IS OBSESSED WITH MANKIND. It is unhealthy. It's already hanging up in his office.
Then John Lapp is a genius because Mankind is da bomb!
Bill, if Obama is the nominee, I'd like to have a fund raiser for him. will you be available to say a few words. it would occur sometimes in the summer or early Fall. thanks
Bill, if Obama is the nominee, I'd like to have a fund raiser for him. will you be available to say a few words. it would occur sometimes in the summer or early Fall. thanks
Bill, if Obama is the nominee, I'd like to have a fund raiser for him. will you be available to say a few words. it would occur sometimes in the summer or early Fall. thanks
Bill, if Obama is the nominee, I'd like to have a fund raiser for him. will you be available to say a few words. it would occur sometimes in the summer or early Fall. thanks