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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.
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The Credentials Committee: Who Supports Whom?

By Marc Ambinder

Apr 7 2008, 4:10 PM ET Comment

25 members of the DNC's credentials committee are seated now; the other 169 will be appointed soon.

Reader Chuck Thies has a breakdown of who supports whom on the committee so far.

LEAN or PRO-OBAMA (11)

Don Beyer (Hillary and Barack donor, but member of Obama Nat'l Finance Committee) [Sources: http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2008/obama/obamafinancecomm.html and opensecrets.org data]


Allyn Brooks-LaSure (Obama supporter) [Source: me, I know him]


Ralph Dawson (Obama donor) [Source: opensecrets.org data]


Sheila Dixon (endorsed Obama) [Source: http://wjz.com/local/dixon.sheila.barack.2.634256.html]


Christopher Edley, Jr. (Obama donor) [Source: opensecrets.org data]


Adelita Grijalva (father is Obama endorser) [Source: http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/printDS/222671]


Kathy Hoyt (member, Vermont Women for Obama Leadership Committee) [Source: http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080226/NEWS/80226021]


Imam Malik Mujahid (resides in Chicago) [Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Malik_Mujahid]


Marc Stanley (Obama, Edwards, Biden donor) [Source: opensecrets.org data]


Jane Stetson (Obama donor) [Source: opensecrets.org data]


LEAN or PRO-CLINTON (9)


Tina Flournoy (Clinton donor) [Source: opensecrets.org data]


Maryscott "Scotty" Greenwood (Clinton donor) [Source: opensecrets.org data]


Janice Griffin (donated to Friends of Hillary in 2005, no 2008 pres. contributions) [Source: opensecrets.org data]


Carol Juneau (co-hosted fundraising brunch for Clinton in Missoula, MT) [Source: http://www.helenair.com/articles/2008/03/26/state/top/50st_080326_clinton.txt]


Maria Neira (Clinton donor) [Source: opensecrets.org data]


Carol Pensky (Clinton donor) [Source: opensecrets.org data]


Michael Steed (Clinton donor) [Source: opensecrets.org data]


William Straus (Clinton donor) [Source: opensecrets.org data]


Dean Aguillen (Clinton donor) [Source: opensecrets.org data]


UNCLEAR TO ME (5)


Kate O'Connor

Jose Ceballos

Laura Harris

Scott Maddox

Bob Rogan

Leila Sahar



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