Posted on 08/27/2007 11:43:40 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
DALY CITY, Calif. -- One of the biggest sources of political donations to Hillary Rodham Clinton is a tiny, lime-green bungalow that lies under the flight path from San Francisco International Airport.
Six members of the Paw family, each listing the house at 41 Shelbourne Ave. as their residence, have donated a combined $45,000 to the Democratic senator from New York since 2005, for her presidential campaign, her Senate re-election last year and her political action committee. In all, the six Paws have donated a total of $200,000 to Democratic candidates since 2005, election records show.
That total ranks the house with residences in Greenwich, Conn., and Manhattan's Upper East Side among the top addresses to donate to the Democratic presidential front-runner over the past two years, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal of donations listed with the Federal Election Commission.
It isn't obvious how the Paw family is able to afford such political largess. Records show they own a gift shop and live in a 1,280-square-foot house that they recently refinanced for $270,000. William Paw, the 64-year-old head of the household, is a mail carrier with the U.S. Postal Service who earns about $49,000 a year, according to a union representative. Alice Paw, also 64, is a homemaker. The couple's grown children have jobs ranging from account manager at a software company to "attendance liaison" at a local public high school. One is listed on campaign records as an executive at a mutual fund.
The Paws' political donations closely track donations made by Norman Hsu, a wealthy New York businessman in the apparel industry who once listed the Paw home as his address, according to public records. Mr. Hsu is one of the top fund-raisers for Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign.
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She is pure evil.
Even if it’s foreign money, nothing ever happens. Not even sanctions.
My solution? I don’t have one, save for a draconian idea of a national election oversight authority, which, of course, isn’t constitutional. FEC filings, and the agency, are a joke. If nothing else, a private-sector equivalent of out-of-work journalists (with a vanguard of CPAs) might be up for the job.
Err, Andrew Cuomo.
I was thinking they should have donated 198,000; and kept 2,000 back to have the place painted.
A dam good time to bring up the Chinese past and present donations... shows a pattern if admitted.
bump for reading in the later AM.
You guys don’t get it. A 1280 sq ft house in Daly City is worth a million dollars! No joke!
These people are wealthy.
Lots of dots to connect, though. Why a re-fi at 270K? That’s an awful lot of cash to pull out of a house, unless the owner developed a higher-interest cash flow problem. Home renovation is pretty affordable, even, daresay, in the Bay Area. Daly City is actually a nice area.
Does the county publish property tax assessments on the Web?
Well this looks interesting ... 4am bump! ;-)
Excerpt from this 1998 PDF file at senate.gov
Ted Sioeng, His Family, and His Business Interests
"Overseas Chinese Friendship Association - a $10,000 check was written on Sioeng San Wongs account to the O.C. Chinese Friendship Ass. on April 15, 1995. The memo line the check indicates that it was meant as a donation. The Committee could not determine the nature of the donation. The check may have been intended for an organization called the Overseas Chinese Friendship Association. The association was set up at the direction of the PRCs Communist Party apparatus, specifically, the National Committee of the Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and was meant to forge and strengthen ties between the United Front Work Department of the CPPCC Central Committee and overseas Chinese in this country and elsewhere! Dr. Daniel Wong - a $5,000 check was written to Wong on the account of Sundari, Sandra, and Laureen Elnitiarta on February 15, 1996. Wong is a Republican who ran for the California State Assembly.!
"Norman Hsu - a $7,500 check was written on Sioeng San Wongs account to Friends of Norman Hsu on March 11, 1995. Hsu is a former president of the Chinese-American 90 Association."
The FIRST thing the Federal Election Commission should do is file sanctions on the Clinton campaign until the provide the REAL addressses of the people donating the money.
IT IS FRAUD to use a false address for which to donate money, THAT KIND OF MONEY ESPECIALLY, to a campaign.
HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO out there federal election officials!!!!
Do you really DO anything to earn your keep, or is the FEC all a big sham.
"What're yoos lookin' at?!?"
From a mail carrier and a housewife. Yeah, sure.
I love waking up to read that this is not from world net daily or newsmax but the WSJ...this will have legs.
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