Posted on 08/30/2007 10:33:01 AM PDT by SmithL
Hillary Clinton and other Democrats scrambled to distance themselves from a big-name party fundraiser who was exposed Wednesday as a fugitive who disappeared 15 years ago after pleading no contest to felony grand theft in the Bay Area.
Norman Hsu, a 56-year-old New York resident, also has been linked to a Daly City family that has become a major Democratic donor. The family has given money to many of the same candidates and party causes as Hsu, their longtime friend and business partner.
Some Democrats also were scrutinizing contributions from members of the Daly City family, the Paws, who could not be reached for comment at their home or over the telephone.
Hsu, whom Democrats acknowledged as an important backer earlier this week, had moved to the persona non grata list by Wednesday.
On Tuesday, for example, Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson called Hsu "a longtime and generous supporter of the Democratic Party." By Wednesday afternoon, Luis Vizcaino, a California spokesman for the New York senator's presidential campaign, said it would give all $23,000 of Hsu's contributions to charity.
Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Sacramento, went further. Not only will she return $8,000 Hsu contributed to her campaigns, she also will give back $2,500 from siblings Winkle and Marina Paw, who both live on Shelbourne Avenue with their parents, William and Alice Paw.
"When any contribution is called into question in any way by a credible source, it is the congresswoman's position to return the funds," said Lauren Smith, a spokeswoman for Matsui.
San Jose Rep. Mike Honda, Al Franken, who is a Senate candidate in Minnesota, and Rep. Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania also said they were purging Hsu's money from their campaigns.
The presidential campaign intrigue descended upon the Paws' neatly kept, lime green home in Daly City this week ...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
I really want to see whats going on in that house.
Since they got the bucks to back every shady Dem in the country, you would think they could spring for some shrubbery.
There is NO WAY that Hillary Clinton is involved in ANY questionable fund raising or questionable donors! Just NO WAY!
No word on whether there are any arrests pending for felony child abuse charges linked to the naming of a human being “Winkle Paw.”
Confucius says: “Those who live by Abramoffization shall die by Abramoffization”.
Exactly right hophead. Why would they return money for a GOP manufactured scandal?
/s/
The Politico seems to be the new Daily Kos:
RNC pushing the China angle
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0807/RNC_Pushing_the_China_angle.html
You gotta wonder how HILLARY CLINTON, FRIEND OF NORMAN HSU who GAVE HER MANY TWENTY THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS will return the favor. I mean you don’t give $23000 to a politician for nothing. You want that person in office to return the favor in some fashion.
Yesterday’s news:
“Clinton Campaign Will Keep Contributions”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888183/posts
Yet, they fight to give felons the right to vote.
Lovely
I just wanted those capitals to show up in a google search, very clearly.
Hillary! Give back the money donated by the poor, hard-working, misguided American postal worker - Mr. Paw of Daly City, CA. SO HE CAN REPAINT THAT HOUSE!!!
That's because the crooked bastards got caught. What about the rest? I can't wait until the watchdog media ferrets out that information and sinks the Clinton campa...
Nevermind.
Same old Clinton machine.
Follow-up:
Clinton to Give Away Fundraiser's Cash
By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, August 29, 2007(08-29) 15:33 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton will give to charity the $23,000 in donations that she has received from a fundraiser who is wanted in California for failing to appear for sentencing on a 1991 grand theft charge.
The decision came Wednesday as other Democrats began distancing themselves from Norman Hsu, whose legal encounters and links to other Democratic donors have drawn public scrutiny in the past two days. . . .
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/08/29/politics/p153127D12.DTL
How many more Charlie Trie’s, John jhuangn’s and norman Hsu’s are their?
Every major donor to the Dems and she who must not be named should be investigated.
Where is research opposition?
No.
No, you don't.
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Note to America’s Media =
Just ask to see the Receipt, this time around, on the Democrats’ “Returned” Contributions
Last time around in the mid-1990’s, CHINAGATE Contributors JAMES RIADY (under oath in Federal Court) & JOHNNY CHUNG stated that none of their CHINAGATE Contributions to Democrats were ever returned to them. Even Democrat office holders who publically stated that they would, i.e. ...
Sen. DIANE FEINSTEIN (D)
Sen. BARBARA BOXER (D)
Rep. LORETTA SANCHEZ (D)
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