Posted on 08/30/2007 5:04:58 AM PDT by Brilliant
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and other prominent Democrats scrambled to unload thousands of dollars of contributions from one of the party's leading fund-raisers, amid questions about his ...techniques and news [of] a warrant for his arrest...
Election-law experts said the pattern raises red flags that justify a probe into whether the wealthy Mr. Hsu was improperly reimbursing the others for their donations...
Beyond his $23,000 in personal contributions to Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Hsu had raised well over $1 million for the New York senator's presidential campaign, making him one of her top 20 "bundlers." ...[and] hundreds of thousands of dollars for House and Senate Democrats and governors...
Earlier this week, Clinton campaign spokesman ... responded to questions ...by saying "there has been no question about his integrity ...and we have absolutely no reason to call his contributions into question."...
"There's no way to keep the money," said Doris Chandler Duke, ...a major Clinton supporter...
After pleading no contest to state theft charges, Mr. Hsu faced a penalty of three years in prison, and was responsible for paying restitution... "He was supposed to be sentenced, but he didn't appear... He faxed a letter, saying he had an emergency. And he never came back."...
Mr. Hsu, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Hong Kong, had returned to Asia...
While many of Mr. Hsu's new political friends abandoned him yesterday, at least one stuck by his side.
Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell said in an interview yesterday that he plans to keep the $40,000 he has received...
Last year, Mr. Hsu hosted a 10-course dinner for Gov. Rendell and about a dozen others at Per Se, a swank New York City restaurant overlooking Central Park, where a meal costs $250 a person. The menu included oysters and Russian sevruga caviar.
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No worry. They're Democrats.
Waco.
That will work.
Besides all the kool aid drinking Dems there are plenty of “moderates” and independents who will still vote Demo despite the filthy scandal because they are so convinced evil right wing Republicans want to impose some kind of Christian taliban style values on America. How absurd.
If the GOP tries to make these contributions an issue in ‘08 they probably will have about the same success as they did in ‘96. Zero. Though I think Clinton did come down a few points when Perot, to his credit, blasted Clinton for the Trie and Huang scandals. The 49% who voted to reelect Clinton didn’t care though, I guess, because “the economy was good!”
Has anyone verified that there actually is a Gift Shop that the Paw’s claim they own? Any Ca. Freeper actually seen it?
Try having him for a Governor, like me. Yuck!
And the republicans are piling on.....Not! They have no b@ll$. Idiots.
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