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RECUT, REVOTE
Published 5/8/2008 by Scott Macaulay (noreply@blogger.com) at Filmmaker Magazine
CNN is reporting that Weinstein Company head Harvey Weinstein engaged in a "heated phone call" with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in late April in which he pressured her to accept a plan in which he would finance primary revotes in Michigan and Florida. From the piece: 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, ...

Harvey Weinstein Threatens to Destroy Democratic Party Unless His Gal Hil Wins [Anger]
Published 5/8/2008 by Pareene at Gawker
... last month to threaten her unless the Dems handed his gal Hillary the nomination. Weinstein said he'd cut of all money to Dem congressional campaigns unless Pelosi backed the Clinton campaign's unfeasible plan to get the Dems to pay for brand new elections in Florida and Michigan. Weinsein has denied it all. Or at least he denied that it was a "threat." He owns up to calling Pelosi and "offering" "to put together a team of people to help finance a revote in Florida and Michigan." Then he threatened to eat the officials who leaked details of the call. Weinsein's owned up ...

Harvey's Tough Move
Published 5/8/2008 at Hollywood Elsewhere
Harvey's Tough Move "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." -- filed this morning by CNN White House correspondent Ed Henry .

Harvey Weinstein And Nancy Pelosi
Published 5/8/2008 by Nikki Finke at Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily
... presidency in 2008 is by repeating what happened in 2000 – and not count all the votes. Harvey assumes that all Democrats stand united behind the principle that everyone should have the opportunity to vote." It's rare that I agree with Harv on anything Hollywood, and certainly I continually disapprove of his strongarm tactics, but on this issue I think Weinstein is right. Florida and Michigan Democrats shouldn't be disenfranchised. CNN's White House correspondent Ed Henry broke a story about how our moviemaking pal tried to bully House Speaker Nancy Pelosi late last month. ...