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Clinton campaign fundraising
LA Times ^ | Oct 22, 2007 | Hamburger

Posted on 10/22/2007 3:28:15 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter

Clinton campaign fundraising

Transcript: Times staff writers Peter Nicholas and Tom Hamburger and National Editor Scott Kraft answered readers' questions on Hillary Clinton's fundraising machine and its hiccups along the way October 22. October 22, 2007

2007-10-22 11:02:04.0 Administrator2: Hello and welcome to the Politics Chat! We're here live with Scott Kraft, Peter Nicholas, Tom Hamburger and Johanna Neuman!

2007-10-22 11:02:39.0 Administrator2: Welcome Scott, Peter, Tom, and Johanna!

2007-10-22 11:03:16.0 Administrator2: Feel free to submit your questions now!

2007-10-22 11:03:18.0 Tom Hamburger: glad to be here

2007-10-22 11:03:21.0 Scott Kraft: Tom and Peter: You've been covering the fundraising of presidential campaigns for some months now. Tell us about the latest story you uncovered on Hillary Clinton's efforts in Chinatown in New York.

2007-10-22 11:05:26.0 Administrator2: Welcome folks! Please feel free to submit your questions/comments on the Clinton fundraising machine.

2007-10-22 11:06:50.0 Peter Nicholas: Our story looked at a slice of donors to Sen. Clinton's campaign who are participating in the American political process in ways we haven't seen before. Many of these donors are immigrants from Fujian Province in China and are not eligible to vote, yet are significant donors to her presidential campaign.

2007-10-22 11:07:26.0 Johanna Neuman: So how did you two discover this story?

2007-10-22 11:08:56.0 Tom Hamburger: I was one of the reporters covering the story of alleged swindler Norman Hsu and his role in the Clinton campaign. In the course of researching that story we came across this historic fundraising from the Chinese American population in New York

2007-10-22 11:09:05.0 Johanna Neuman: Peter and Tom, What I'm wondering is what these donors expect or hope that Hillary Clinton will do for them if she is elected.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: 2008; campaignfinance; clinton; clintoncorruption; downhill; elections; fundraising; hillary; hillaryexposed; hsu; socialist
Here is a transcript of the questions answered by the LA Times reporters on the Hillary Chinatown contributions. It gives some insight into how and why the did the investigation.
1 posted on 10/22/2007 3:28:15 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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2 posted on 10/22/2007 3:30:41 PM PDT by Bon mots
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3 posted on 10/22/2007 3:31:32 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: doug from upland; holdonnow

Clinton Crime Family PING


4 posted on 10/22/2007 3:33:08 PM PDT by sono (Remember when Health Insurance was a Carry Permit?)
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Crossposting just for reference...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1913952/posts?page=1


5 posted on 10/22/2007 3:37:48 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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Basically, these guys were trying to get Hillary’s side of the story out before the political opposition had a chance to get their opinions out.


6 posted on 10/22/2007 3:46:38 PM PDT by Brilliant
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Hillary...”I’ll take one donation from column “A” and two from column “B” and one won ton soup and no egg roll.”


7 posted on 10/22/2007 3:52:23 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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I have such a Yen for winning that I will do anything to represent my constituents....even a little makeover.

8 posted on 10/22/2007 3:55:47 PM PDT by BigLittle
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9 posted on 10/22/2007 4:31:08 PM PDT by Bon mots
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Stop!!!!!! I can’t look at this any more - ROFLOL!!!!!!!!!!


10 posted on 10/22/2007 4:48:04 PM PDT by BigLittle
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Basically, these guys were trying to get Hillary’s side of the story out before the political opposition had a chance to get their opinions out.

It's possible that this could also be a way of leading attention away from Hsu and the Paw family.

11 posted on 10/22/2007 5:14:18 PM PDT by Ben Hecks
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BTTT


12 posted on 10/22/2007 5:24:29 PM PDT by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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