Report: Top Hillary Supporter Harvey Weinstein Threatened Pelosi
Looks like another extremely high profile Hillary backer may have threatened Nancy Pelosi in an effort to help his gal:
In a heated phone call with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi late last month, Hillary Clinton supporter Harvey Weinstein threatened to cut off campaign money to congressional Democrats unless Pelosi embraced a new plan by the movie mogul to finance a revote of the Democratic presidential primaries in Florida and Michigan, according to three officials who were briefed on the contents of the conversation.The three officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly about the private phone conversation, said Weinstein, a top supporter of Clinton's presidential campaign, appeared determined to buy Clinton more time in her battle against Sen. Barack Obama by pushing for the revote and pressing Pelosi to back off her previous comments that superdelegates should support the candidate who's leading in pledged delegates in early June.
Weinstein vehemently denied the threat to cut off funding.
In March, twenty top Hillary donors tacitly threatened to stop funding the Dems' effort to beef up their House majority in order to get Pelosi to shift her stance on the role of the super-dels in the nomination process.
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