Posted on 02/03/2006 5:00:40 PM PST by Indy Pendance
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton gathered checks from Hollywood friends, John Kerry's wife and even a former Republican congressman, but records filed Friday show she returned cash from an even older ally - Wal-Mart.
Senate records made public Friday detail how Clinton, D-N.Y., raised a whopping $6 million in the last three months of 2005, bringing her campaign cash to $17 million going into her re-election run, in which she has yet to face organized opposition.
Some $1,500 of that money came from Amo Houghton Jr., the former Republican congressman who retired in 2004. Houghton, an heir to the Corning glass company in upstate New York, did not immediately return a call for comment.
The junior senator from New York is also a potential presidential candidate in 2008. She took in plenty of donations from box office stars and political heavyweights, according to paperwork filed with the Federal Election Commission.
Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., gave Clinton $2,100. John Kerry, who lost the 2004 presidential race, is also considered a presidential prospect in 2008.
Clinton returned $5,000 to the political action committee of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., a company with long ties to the Clintons dating back to their days in Arkansas, where Wal-Mart is headquartered.
Clinton campaign spokeswoman Ann Lewis said the money was returned 'because of serious differences with current company practices.'
The senator served on the Wal-Mart board from 1986 to 1992, and was close with the Walton family that created the nation's largest retailer.
But the senator signaled a new stance on the company's business practices in a speech last week, when she told the U.S. Conference of Mayors that the company should provide better worker benefits.
'Cities and states are saying we can't keep holding the bag here,' Clinton told the conference, citing a new Maryland law requiring Wal-Mart to spend 8 percent of payroll in health benefits or contribute to insurance plans.
Other donors to Clinton include former Sept. 11 commission member Richard Ben-Veniste, who gave her $1,000 in November. Actress Reese Witherspoon contributed $1,000, and talk show host Jerry Springer donated $4,200.
Actor Danny DeVito gave $1,000, and actress Morgan Fairchild gave $1,500. Edie Falco of 'The Sopranos' gave $1,000, and Jessica Seinfeld - comedian Jerry Seinfeld's wife - gave $4,200.
The papers also showed what it costs a candidate to raise $6 million in three months. One company alone was paid more than $461,000 to conduct direct mail appeals for Clinton.
Mabye now Bill will return the ChiCom liberary funds too...
WAL-MART RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!
Frankly, I'd rather shop at Target even though Dayton's family owns it....but hey, Wal-Mart, if it irritates the LEFT, is good too! We get our groceries at SUPER WAL-MART!! BWA HA HA HA HA HAHA HA HA HA HA!
Does this mean that Wal-Mart offered better worker benefits in the past or does it mean that the hypocritical witch bitch is lying again?
Previously posted article an half hour ago...but Hilary is now "cutting the strings" of the rural red state Arkansas and standing up as an east coast mogul....precarious strategy to win any support from rural America and the Red state nation
Hmmm .. Richard Ben-Veniste ... how interesting.............
Got a link?
It means that Hillary wants the Unions to support her. true to form, she is willing to trash those who helped her in the past.
This means no detailed statement will be released but rather that the wb is no longer of the red state Ark and now is an east coast mogul
Help anyone, I did not post on the 1st post. sorry
that too
(2000) According to press accounts at the time, she was a show horse at the company's annual meetings when founder Sam Walton bused in cheering throngs to celebrate his non-union empire, which is headquartered in Arkansas, one of the country's poorest states. According to published reports, she was placed in charge of the company's "green" program to protect the environment.
The Hidabeast will not even support her home state and probably hates the new Clinton library ... maybe she can run in 08 using the contents of the library as her stand for America
Never! That was honest payment for services rendered.
Ben-Veniste was on Bill Clinton's legal team during the Whitewater investigation. He may have known the Clintons before that when they were on the Watergate Committee together. They also have mutual mob friends via Ben-Veniste's criminal defense work and the Clintons' Little Rock ties.
and get Sandy to return the papers???
Assuming that they nominate a semi-serious challenger, i.e. someone NOT Kucinich or Sheehan-like, they could inflict a lot of damage in a party primary.
And this from the woman (do I hear world's smartest?) who expects to capture at least one "Red" state in an '08 race?
Way to go, you tin-eared floozy, you have just alienated about a gazillion WalMart shoppers, many of whom reside in those southern states that you covet and are so desperate for.
Your shameless pandering to the anti-WalMart crowd must have been a Karl Rove plot, and you and Barney's sis fell for it hook, line, and sinker. Buh-bye.
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