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TPM: Progressives Recoil at Rumors of Cuts in Debt Ceiling Compromise

Progressive groups are speaking out against the debt ceiling deal currently being hashed out in Washington. The response from two of the nation’s largest organizations goes essentially like this: Really?!?

TPM: PCCC Money “Flowing In” Wisconsin

National Democratic money is flowing into the Wisconsin state Senate recalls, with a new $100,000 ad buy from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Democracy For America, in just a single targeted race.

TPM: Progressives Launch Draft Elizabeth Warren Effort, Immediately Raise $30K In Campaign Cash

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee is heading up the Draft Warren campaign and says around 24,000 people have signed it so far. More important for Warren and her potential campaign plans, PCCC tells TPM signers have pledged to give funds “in the large six figures” to a Warren campaign and offered up “tens of thousands of volunteer hours” should she need them.

POLITICO: PCCC Raises $15,000 for Elizabeth Warren…in four hours.

Elizabeth Warren may be going on vacation with her grandkids to Legoland. But the Progressive Change Campaign Committee is already hauling in funds for what they see as an eventual run for the Massachusetts Senate seat.

NY TIMES: PCCC’s Stephanie Taylor on Cordray’s Nomination for CFPB Head

“Elizabeth Warren was the best qualified to lead this bureau that she conceived — and we imagine Richard Cordray would agree,” said Stephanie Taylor, a consumer advocate who collected 350,000 signatures on a petition calling for the president to nominate Ms. Warren. “That said, Rich Cordray has been a strong ally of Elizabeth Warren’s, and we hope he will continue her legacy of holding Wall Street accountable.”

CNN: PCCC Holds Firm Against Proposed Social Cuts

The liberal advocacy group Progressive Change Campaign Committee delivered 200,000 pledges to President Obama’s campaign headquarters Friday, demanding he hold their line in debt ceiling negotiations or lose their support.

HuffPost: PCCC Threatens to Pull Obama Support Ahead of 2012

About a dozen people representing the Progressive Change Campaign Committee delivered what they said were 200,000 pledges from people who will refuse to donate or volunteer for Obama’s re-election campaign if he cuts the entitlement programs.

“It’s not a question of who they’re going to support for president, they’re going to vote for Barack Obama. It’s a question of where their time and money is going to go,” spokesman T. Neil Sroka said.

POLITICO: Obama, Cut Medicare or Social Security, and PCCC Won’t Support You.

With entitlement programs potentially on the chopping block during the current debt ceiling negotiations, a prominent liberal group is threatening to pull its support for President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign if Medicaid, Medicare or Social Security benefits are cut.

Chicago Sun-Times: PCCC Delivers 200,000 pledges to Obama Campaign HQ… and Obama Responds

In Chicago, members of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee delivered 200,000 petitions to Obama’s Prudential Building headquarters, threatening to cut off donations and volunteer hours if Obama puts Medicare and Social Security on the table. Ann Marie Habershaw, the COO of the Obama Campaign, met the small group in the Prudential Building lobby to receive the petitions.

ABC: PCCC Plans Protest at Obama Campaign Headquarters

A group of liberal Democrats who fundraised and volunteered for Barack Obama in 2008 plans to protest Friday outside his reelection campaign headquarters in Chicago. Organizers with the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a liberal PAC, say they will attempt to deliver 200,000 signatures on a pledge to withhold support from the president if he consents to cuts to federal entitlement programs.

CSPAN: PCCC Co-Founder Adam Green on Washington Journal (VIDEO)

PCCC Co-Founder Adam Green takes questions from Left, Right and Center while outlining the PCCC’s role in the upcoming election cycle.

CNN: Progressive Change Campaign Committee makes a rally call directed at Obama

In the midst of ongoing debt talks, the liberal-leaning Progressive Change Campaign Committee is urging people not to donate their time or money to President Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign if he agrees to cuts in Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.

More than 160,000 people have pledged to withhold support for Obama in 2012 if concessions in Social Security or health care are made, according to the PCCC.

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