Posted on 02/15/2007 5:11:58 AM PST by Liz
Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign reached a deal to pay a key South Carolina black leader's consulting firm more than $200,000 just days before he agreed to endorse her run for president.....The arrangement involves South Carolina state Sen. Darrell Jackson, a well-connected African-American leader and pastor whose support is coveted by national campaigns.
Jackson confirmed that his public-relations firm struck a deal with Clinton's campaign just days ago for a contract worth up to $10,000 a month through the 2008 elections. Jackson had also been in talks with Sen. Barack Obama's campaign about endorsing him and a consulting contract for more than $5,000, raising questions about whether Jackson's endorsement was bought by a higher bidder.
Jackson acknowledged that his financial dealings with the Clinton camp should have been mentioned on Tuesday, when his support was revealed......But Jackson balked at suggestions that his political support for sale. "It's not about the money - there were some other candidates who offered to double [Clinton's] offer," Jackson told The Post, though he declined to say which candidates. Jackson said he was heavily courted by Obama personally, Edwards, Joe Biden and Bill Richardson. He said he doesn't draw a salary from Sunrise, but gets to drive a company car. Jackson worked for Edwards in 2004, and for Bill Clinton in 1992.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
With all the states rushing to earlier primaries, the ultimate result will be based on money - only those candidates who can raise vast amounts of money before January stand a chance to win. Hillary, more than any other candidate, is thrilled by this prospect. Because all the primaries will be bunched into a short time frame, Hillary will not have to rely on personal appearances, which is her greatest weakness and saturate the airwaves with her highly orchestrated and expensive commercials.
I don't get it. Where's the shocking part?
"It's not about the money....O.K., it's about the money"
Wonder how much he rents out his pulpit for to politicians on the campaign trail.
Given the problemmatic relationship with some black churches and democratic politicians forever giving political speeches from the pulpits, it is a question worth asking. (Not to mention the Tax status issue for those churches).
I doubt that there is another candidate whose campaign could afford double what the beast offered.
I'm shocked, I tell you, Shocked.
Third cousins, twice removed---LOL.
Heheh---nice zinger.
Haberman and Capt. Renault....
Sadly, the NY Post will not be shocked enough to stop panting after Her Heinous.
1) I wouldn't thought Posties were so easily shocked.
2) I wonder where the money came from exactly and if this was a legal use.
Hows about Ford? Did Hillie pay him off, too?
This is a standard practice in the urban South. Democrats have to pay for endorsements. They usually pay entities created by "leaders" who are usually religious figures.
Republicans usually are not even offered a chance.
Armstrong Williams is the premiere Black political whore in America, wrote Black Commentator Co-Publishers Glen Ford and Peter Gamble in our December 12, 2002 issue. In the interest of full disclosure, we revealed our particular grievance: that Williams had hopelessly polluted Americas Black Forum (ABF), the first nationally syndicated Black news interview program on commercial television, created by Ford and Gamble in 1977. Since the mid-Nineties, we wrote, ABF has devolved into a menagerie of professional Black propagandists in service of the most vicious elements of the Republican Party. It is a bizarre experience.
From www.blackcommentator.com
Hillary jus' doin' good bidness.
As the Donald would say "It is nothing personal, it's business".
Slave auction?
Or a score.
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