The upstart super PAC, called Ready for Hillary, is fast emerging as the quasi-official stand-in for potential 2016 presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton, scooping up advisers and gathering big donations more than three years ahead of election time. …
Ready for Hillary — launched in January by Clinton boosters Adam Parkhomenko and Allida Black — is getting help from a number of veterans from Hillary and Bill Clinton’s political operation. Former Bill Clinton strategist Harold Ickes, former Clinton White House political director Craig Smith and former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Jim Lamb are advising the group on strategy, while longtime confidant James Carville recently sent out a fundraising solicitation under his name.
“I look at this as an outpost that will help Hillary if she runs,” Ickes said. …
Still, enough boldface names close to the Clintons are involved to give Ready for Hillary “the official ‘Good Housekeeping’ seal of approval for all things Hillary,” said Michael Trujillo, an adviser to a rival super PAC.
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