Nanny Bloomberg's legendary fights against colas and fast food and other stuff have been going on since shortly after he took office in 2002, and they've had a profound effect on New York City folks. Obesity's up by 25% since he began his campaigns. Way to be, Bloomie!
And on the national front, we have more good news from the DNC: they're broke.
The Democratic National Committee remains so deeply in the hole from spending in the last election that it is struggling to pay its own vendors.
The Democrats' numbers speak for themselves: Through August, 10 months after helping President Obama secure a second term, the DNC owed its various creditors a total of $18.1 million, compared to the $12.5 million cash cushion the Republican National Committee is holding.
Several executives at firms that contract to provide services to the party -- speaking anonymously to avoid antagonizing what remains an important if troubled client -- describe an organization playing for time as they raise alarms about past-due bills falling further behind. And senior strategists close to the DNC say they worry the organization appears to have no road map back to solvency. "They really thought they could get this money raised by the summer," one said, "but the fact is, from talking to people over there, they have no real plan for how to solve this."
This despite the fact that the Campaigner in Chief has done 15 fundraisers this year alone, to say nothing of the Vegas fundraiser he yapped at as the Benghazi massacre was unfolding. Seems he can't even fundraise effectively any more.
Democratics excel at spending.
