Posted on 08/29/2007 2:59:12 PM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Democrats began distancing themselves Wednesday from a fundraiser who is wanted in California for failing to appear for sentencing on a 1991 grand theft charge.
Al Franken, a Senate candidate in Minnesota, Rep. Michael Honda of California and Rep. Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania said they would divest their campaigns of donations from Norman Hsu, whose legal encounters and links to other Democratic donors have drawn public scrutiny in the past two days.
Hsu is a fundraiser for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and is described as a devoted fan of the presidential candidate and New York senator. He planned to co-host a money event for Clinton on Sept. 30.
Reports in The Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Times this week have caused numerous Democratic candidates and organization who have benefited from Hsu's contributions to reconsider the donations.
Franken's campaign received $2,300 from Hsu and Sestak and Honda each received $1,000 for their re-election efforts.
The Clinton campaign did not immediately comment on Hsu's legal situation. But in a statement issued Tuesday, the campaign defended Hsu in response to the Journal report about a San Francisco family whose contribution patterns tracked Hsu's.
"Norman Hsu is a longtime and generous supporter of the Democratic Party and its candidates, including Senator Clinton," Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said in a statement Tuesday. "During Mr. Hsu's many years of active participation in the political process, there has been no question about his integrity or his commitment to playing by the rules, and we have absolutely no reason to call his contributions into question or to return them."
Federal Election Commission records show that Hsu has donated $260,000 to Democratic Party groups and federal candidates since 2004. . . .
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If you loan out private money to be given to your campaign, it gains another matching amount from the federal fund. 100K can quickly become a million or more. Churning is what I’d call it, or an old term from the 80s S&L mess, “Cash for trash.”
Hsu knew??????
Why the HELL isn’t a PACK of REPORTERS HOUNDING HILLARY???? Guess because they want to LIVE??? Seriously....if one tenth of this scandal was a Republican involved, the media would be going to the Sen. kid;s SCHOOL to ask the teacher questions! I DESPISE the INCURIOUS MEDIA.
Fox News is the ONLY place you’ll see the story! Talk Radio isn’t covering it much either!! Where are the INVESTGATIVE REPORTERS like Spikey Mikey??
I’ll bet POLITICO.com hasn’t covered this much either!! Hey Mike Allen and Jim Vanderhei...we EXPECT a LOT OF COVERAGE!! Waiting.....
Howard Wolfson is a mean assed hard nosed creep.
Wolfson talks when Hillary doesn’t want anything dirty to touch her.......Hsu is a FELON ON THE LAM!!!
Is that Savage you’re talking about? I’ve never listened to him. Someone here who does should call in.
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Just get a Receipt..!!!
Some very surprising things happened in early 1997...
...after we Citizen Activists very publically forced the City of Long Beach into Public Hearings to stop it from turning our U.S. Long Beach Navy Base over to the Communist Chinese, in return for China Army Money then flowing thru the CLINTON White House during the mid-1990’s.
In California Senators DIANE FEINSTEIN (D) & BARBARA BOXER (D) suddenly announced that they were returning $10,000 in China Army Money that “They didn’t know they had received”..!!
A week later Congresswoman LORETTA SANCHEZ (D) followed suit by publically announcing that she was returning $1,000 in China Army Money that “She didn’t know she had received” during the mid-1990’s..!!
In his 2001 Plea Agreement Federal Court Hearing in Los Angeles I personally witnessed CHINAGATE Moneyman JAME RIADY testify under oath that...
“Not one single nickel he had given to Democrats had ever been returned to him”..!!!
A most repentant CHINAGATE Moneyman JOHNNY CHUNG also confirmed that the $1,000 in China Army Money he had personally given to California Congresswoman LORETTA SANCHEZ (D) in the mid-1990’s had never been returned to him.
Just get a Receipt..!!!
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GREAT question....WHO will they return the money to..the FELON on the LAM??
No...Michael Isikoff.
Hsu’s just buyin’ an early ticket on the next Clinton Pardon Express.
I think I heard the money will be forwarded to a charity, which in their minds equals MoveOn.org.
“It puts in mind that line from a Led Zepplin song “If it keeps on raining the levees going to break”.”
Funny you mention that. Almost exactly two years ago I was looking for my CD of that album!
Ronnie, can you get this message to Cal FReepers? I’m not sure where Murrieta Temecula is, but our very own dougfromupland is speaking there on Friday, September 7. He will be presenting his video on Hillary and the Peter Paul fundraising. It would be great if anyone in the locale could attend to support him.
Sorry...had no idea who Spikey Mikey was. ;)
Ping to post #56
Do you know any Cal FReepers from this area?
Thanks for the ping!
Fixed.
Let's take this one step at a time. Will there be canceled checks anywhere? Even then, is it just another a instance of Whack-a-mole?
HF
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