McFarland Campaign Fueled By Major Clinton Backers (OOPS!)

Spencer For Senate ^ | 6/7/06

[areafiftyone]

McFarland campaign fueled by major Clinton backers

YONKERS – A review of Kathleen McFarland's campaign reports filed with the Federal Election Commission reveal a very troubling fact for Republicans seeking to defeat Senator Clinton. A clear pattern has emerged whereby donors to Ms. McFarland are also big supporters of Senator Clinton, the DNC and other related leftwing entities.

For example, the following McFarland donors also gave money to Sen. Clinton and the DNC:

• Lionel Pincus donated $4,200 to Ms. McFarland while giving Sen. Clinton $6,000 since 1999. Between 1997-2000, Pincus donated $300,000 to the DNC!

• Constance Spahn donated $500 to Ms. McFarland while giving Sen. Clinton $2,200 since 1999. Spahn also donated $26,000 to the DNC in 2000!

• Charlotte Ford donated $500 to Ms. McFarland and since the 2000 election cycle, she donated $2,250 to Senator Clinton.

• Ann Chamberlain Knight donated $2,100 to Ms. McFarland and $2,000 to Sen. Clinton in 2000.

• James S. Gold donated $200 to Ms. McFarland and while giving Sen. Clinton $2,000 since 2003.

• Dane Neller gave Hillary $1,000 in September, 2005 and then gave McFarland $500 four months later.

The fact is that twenty donors to McFarland who gave her a total of $25,200 also gave $343,150 to the Democratic National Committee, $6,000 to Chuck Schumer and Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, $9,900 to Howard Dean, $4,000 to John Kerry and $6,910 to Hillary Clinton.

"There certainly appears to be a concerted effort by Sen. Clinton's supporters to fund Ms. McFarland's primary challenge to John Spencer," said campaign manager Kevin Collins.

"Ms. McFarland is running on a platform no Republican would support that is why her campaign is being heavily funded by the Hillary Clinton/Howard Dean/John Kerry crowd that does not want to see Sen. Clinton face John Spencer who is her only credible challenger," Collins added.

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[areafiftyone]

Get rid of KT McFarland - she needs to quit now!

[Tulane]

Skeptical...Don't know much about the race, but it is common for business interests to fund both parties.

[CPT Clay]

Quick get Spitzer to look into this.

[Defiant]

Expect the same people to fund McCain's third party run.

[NY.SS-Bar9]

From today's email:

....These donations were delivered to the McFarland campaign at the same time Clinton dirt digger Terry Lenzner’s firm invoiced McFarland’s Congressional campaign account for its private investigative work. The same work Ed Rollins boasted was used to investigate John Spencer’s family. Was this money used to hire Clinton private investigator Terry Lenzner?...