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Trump's election reform Don Surber by Don Surber As Hillary rolls out her excuse-laden book, "What Happened," (spoiler alert: the dog ate her election) it is time to look back exactly one year ago to find out what was happening. Not much. She was Hare Hillary enjoying her huge lead over Trump Tortoise. From the New York Times: At a private fund-raiser Tuesday night at a waterfront Hamptons estate, Hillary Clinton danced alongside Jimmy Buffett, Jon Bon Jovi and Paul McCartney, and joined in a singalong finale to “Hey Jude.”“I stand between you and the apocalypse,” a confident Mrs. Clinton declared to laughs, exhibiting a flash of self-awareness and humor to a crowd that included Calvin Klein and Harvey Weinstein and for whom the prospect of a Donald J. Trump presidency is dire.Mr. Trump has pointed to Mrs. Clinton’s noticeably scant schedule of campaign events this summer to suggest she has been hiding from the public. But Mrs. Clinton has been more than accessible to those who reside in some of the country’s most moneyed enclaves and are willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to see her. In the last two weeks of August, Mrs. Clinton raked in roughly $50 million at 22 fund-raising events, averaging around $150,000 an hour, according to a New York Times tally.Wow, $150,000 an hour. She was well on her way to raising a record $1.2 billion. Twice what Trump would raise. From the story by Amy Chozick and Jonathan Martin: If Mr. Trump appears to be waging his campaign in rallies and network interviews, Mrs. Clinton’s second presidential bid seems to amount to a series of high-dollar fund-raisers with public appearances added to the schedule when they can be fit in. Last week, for example, she diverged just once from her packed fund-raising schedule to deliver a speech.She was doing what Jeb and the others had done the previous summer. Jeb had spent the summer of 2015 amassing a huge war chest of gild to use to buy the wall-to-wall ads on all the news shows to smite Trump in the primaries. Meanwhile, Trump was running wall-to-wall coverage on all the news shows. Schmoozing with the rich in the Hamptons was fun. Relaxing. You can drink, and no one cares. You can sing along with a Beatle off key, and no one cares. You can mock your opponent and his voters, and no one cares. Even reporters won't tell on you. John Podesta is vetting their stories. Mrs. Clinton’s aides have gone to great lengths to project an image of her as down-to-earth and attuned to the challenges of what she likes to call “the struggling and the striving.” She began her campaign last year riding in a van to Iowa from New York and spent much of last summer hosting round-table discussions with a handful of what her campaign called “everyday Americans” in Iowa and New Hampshire.Yet some of the closest relationships Mrs. Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have are with their longstanding contributors. If she feels most at ease around millionaires, within the gilded bubble, it is in part because they are some of her most intimate friends.“It’s like going to a wedding or a bar mitzvah — you catch up,” explained Mitchell Berger, a Democratic donor in Florida, about the familial nature of the events. Mr. Berger would know: He has been raising money for the Clintons since he held a fund-raiser in his Fort Lauderdale office for Mr. Clinton the day after he announced his candidacy in 1991.Donald Trump was once part of that crowd. The Clintons attended his third wedding. And Hillary spent $3 million on her daughter's wedding. I cannot find what Trump spent on Ivanka's. Whatever it was, he got the money from working. Hillary got hers from her charitable foundation. For decades, the media and the Washington Establishment talked with alarm about the expense of elections. They tried to rein in the influence of big money. Hilary was among the vanguard of these reform efforts. She was center of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, as a group dared spend money on an ad aimed at opposing her re-election. We have to take money's influence out of the electoral process! And Trump did. He went out, took his message directly to the people, and one. The Hampton's in crowd never saw it happening. From the story: Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a backer of Democrats and a friend of the Clintons’, made sure attendees did not grill Mrs. Clinton at the $100,000-per-couple lamb dinner Mrs. Forester de Rothschild hosted under a tent on the lawn of her oceanfront Martha’s Vineyard mansion.“I said, ‘Let’s make it a nice night for her and show her our love,’” Mrs. Forester de Rothschild said.But while the Clintons had power, the real power was with those paying her $150,000 an hour to schmooze, sign with a Beatle, dance with a drink in her hand, and say things about the cads who would vote for Trump in his losing election bid. “The Hamptons is full of powerful, wealthy people who are bored and go to constant social events to see who else got invited and to show your status,” said Ken Sunshine, a veteran Democratic activist and public relations executive with a home in Remsenburg, N.Y. “This year,” he added, “going to a Clinton event is at the very top of the list.”He who pays the Clintons calls the tune. Ditto Jeb. Rubio. Just about all of them. Not Donald John Trump.