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Crooked Clinton Cash - Systematic corner-cutting, campaign corruption, and double standards.
National Review Online ^
| September 05, 2007
| Michelle Malkin
Posted on 09/05/2007 8:44:47 AM PDT by neverdem
September 05, 2007, 0:00 a.m.
Crooked Clinton Cash Systematic corner-cutting, campaign corruption, and double standards.
By Michelle Malkin
Here’s a peculiar thing about the holier-than-thou campaign-finance-reform crowd. Whenever the stench of dirty money starts wafting from Democrat-party coffers, the clean-election lobbyists are nowhere to be found. They’ll raise hell and hackles over American corporate donors. But when it’s shady foreign operators infusing cash into our electoral system, you’ll only hear one sound: the deafening swell of crickets chirping.
Hillary and Bill Clinton have declared themselves “shocked” at revelations about one of the Democrat Party’s mysterious, deep-pocketed bagmen, Hong Kong native Norman Hsu. Hsu, a prodigious Democrat donor, was arrested last week after having evaded the law for 15 years over grand-theft swindling charges. Hsu pleaded no contest to those charges and was supposed to serve jail time. Instead, he managed to remain a fugitive while raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars for Democrat candidates and officeholders — and posing openly for photographs with the likes of Hillary Clinton.
According to investigative blogger Flip Pidot, who delved into public records and crunched the numbers, Clinton took the lion’s share of political cash ($174,000) from Hsu and his network of suspected donor-bundlers whose campaign checks dwarfed their income. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and New York Governor (and former attorney general) Eliot Spitzer accepted the largest sums of direct cash from Hsu.
Reports Pidot: “Among state parties, campaign committees, and advocacy groups, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee topped the list, with $122,000, though three state Democratic parties or committees (Tennessee, New York, and New Jersey) took more from Hsu directly. Of the 32 organizations that took money from Hsu and his associates, 10 were state Democratic parties and several others were Democratic campaign committees. The 84 individuals who received money from Hsu and his associates included 17 gubernatorial candidates, 17 congressional candidates, 27 senatorial candidates, and a variety of statewide and local candidates. All were Democrats, with the exception of Tom Gallagher, Florida’s former CFO and an unsuccessful primary challenger to Charlie Crist in the 2006 governor race. Including candidate-specific PACs, these individuals have taken just over $1 million from Hsu’s group since the 2004 cycle. . . . Another 22 organizations received support from Hsu’s network since 2004, primarily Democratic campaign committees and state Democratic parties.”
Former President Clinton, who left the White House up to his eyeballs in campaign-finance scandals, retreated to southern folksy talk when asked about the Hsu scandal over the weekend.
“You could have knocked me over with a straw, especially when I heard the L.A. people had been allegedly looking for him for 15 years when he was in plain view,” he told Newsday. With a straw? How about a cluebat?
Funny money? In the party of clean campaigns? No!
The truth smarts like a snapped thong. Thwack. The straw-donor scheme has clear shades of the Clintons’ Chinagate scheme: Dubious givers. Con-artist rainmakers. And disingenuous pleas of ignorance and shock.
While the campaign-finance-reform crowd ducks under the table, there is one vociferous group making noise. Like clockwork, Asian-American groups were first out of the gate protesting public scrutiny of the foreign donors and whining about profiling. Deja vu all over again. “It would be wholly inappropriate to link this in any way to the ‘96 campaign cycle investigations, just because both involve Asian-Americans,” Lawrence Barcella, a lawyer for Hsu, who is a top donor to Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, told Politico.com
No. It’s because both involve the craven Clintons, a trademark incuriosity about the backgrounds of big donors and a network of generous contributors of notably meager means.
Executive director of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund in New York, Margaret Fung, a prominent voice who decried every last newspaper story about convicted campaign -finance felon John Huang during the 1990s, recycled her old talking points again: “It links Norman Hsu and the Paw family to other Asian-American donors in previous campaigns, solely because of their race. It insinuates that Asian-Americans are more prone to making improper donations and have been doing this for years. What is this obsession with Asian-American donors?”
What is this knee-jerk obsession with crying racism and wallowing in collective ethnic grievances? It’s not just about “Asian-American” donors. It’s about felon and fugitive donors of a rainbow of races and backgrounds. It’s about the Clintons’ — and the Dems’ — systemic corner-cutting, campaign corruption, and double standards. There is a Chinese saying: “When you drink water, always think about the source.”
Peering into the poisoned well isn’t “racism.” It’s the duty of a responsible republic.
© 2007 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 2008; campaignfinance; clinton; corruption; crushclinton; democrats; hillary; hsu; normanhsu
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posted on
09/05/2007 8:44:53 AM PDT
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
The truth smarts like a snapped thong. Thwack. BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!
2
posted on
09/05/2007 8:49:55 AM PDT
by
misterrob
(There's no difference between a knee jerk liberal and a knee jerk conservative.)
To: neverdem
The Clinton’s believe they are untouchable and so far they have been correct. I think and hope that the American people are finally seeing through their desire to become King and Queen of the United States at our expense. The Clinton’s could give a rip about the American people. It’s all about power. In Bill’s case it’s all about the interns. They are a disgrace as far as familys are concerned and should never be allowed to represent the United States.
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posted on
09/05/2007 8:52:10 AM PDT
by
RC2
To: neverdem
Michelle does not understand the culture the Clintons are from (What’s that Woopie?). The South, of course. (sarc)
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posted on
09/05/2007 8:57:37 AM PDT
by
llevrok
(Feral republican.)
To: neverdem
Michelle you write good~!!!!!!!!!!!!
You should run for office- just to raise the intelligence level of the debates.
Can you take on stupid tax law and government largesse? There is a whole rich new vein deserving of your brilliance.
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posted on
09/05/2007 8:59:00 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
To: neverdem
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posted on
09/05/2007 8:59:46 AM PDT
by
Osage Orange
("Facts are stubborn things..." - Ronald Reagan)
To: llevrok
This sounds like a repeat of Bill Clinton only worse.
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posted on
09/05/2007 9:01:06 AM PDT
by
ardara
To: RC2
RC2 wrote:
The Clintons believe they are untouchable and so far they have been correct.
Since Hillary is running for office, people need to be constantly reminded of this campaign scandal as well as the scandals of her husband.
If the American people elect Hillary after such public scandals, then there is something greatly wrong with America.
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posted on
09/05/2007 9:04:50 AM PDT
by
topher
(Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
To: All
When Controversy Follows Cash Sant S. Chatwal, an Indian American businessman, has helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaigns, even as he battled governments on two continents to escape bankruptcy and millions of dollars in tax liens....
I'm surprised that didn't link that story.
9
posted on
09/05/2007 9:09:47 AM PDT
by
neverdem
(Call talk radio. We need a Constitutional Amendment for Congressional term limits. Let's Roll!)
To: doug from upland
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posted on
09/05/2007 9:18:07 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
To: neverdem
The straw-donor scheme has clear shades of the Clintons Chinagate scheme: Dubious givers. Con-artist rainmakers. And disingenuous pleas of ignorance and shock.
***
And the subsequent pledges to return the dirty money without any media follow-up as to whether the donations are actually returned.
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posted on
09/05/2007 9:18:57 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Duncan Hunter in 2008!)
To: topher
If the American people elect Hillary after such public scandals, then there is something greatly wrong with America.
&&&
Sad truth is that the average voter is just not interested in investing the time that the average FReeper does in learning about the issues and candidates. Many will just vote for the one that the MSM chooses for them.
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posted on
09/05/2007 9:21:07 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Duncan Hunter in 2008!)
To: Bigg Red
Mr. Malkin is one lucky dude!
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posted on
09/05/2007 9:27:11 AM PDT
by
bicyclerepair
(Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)
To: neverdem
Michele. Says it like it is.
Is not Politically Correct.
the politicians could all take a lesson from this woman who possesses a very large amounut of brains, courage and heart not to mention plain old guts and love for this country. I admire and respect her more than any other politician.
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posted on
09/05/2007 9:47:09 AM PDT
by
cubreporter
( Rush has done more for our country from where he sits than anyone will ever know.)
To: neverdem
More double standards:
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posted on
09/05/2007 9:50:51 AM PDT
by
OESY
To: OESY
BEFORE YOU VOTE, READ THIS!
In 1969 a group of Black Panthers decided that a fellow panther named Alex Rackley needed to die for suspicion of disloyalty. Rackley was tied to a chair and tortured for hours including pouring boiling water on him. When finished torturing Rackley, Black Panther member, Warren Kimbo took Rackley outside and put a bullet in his head.
What happened to these Black Panthers? By 1977, only one of the killers was still in jail. The shooter, Warren Kimbro, got a scholarship to Harvard. He later became an assistant dean at an Eastern Connecticut State College. Erica Huggins was the woman who served up the boiling the water for Mr. Rackley’s torture. Years later, Ms. Huggins was elected to a California School Board.
How in the world did these killers get off so easy? They got off through the efforts of two lawyers who defended the Panthers. These two people actually shut down Yale University with demonstrations in defense of the accused Black Panthers during their trial. One of these people was Bill Lan Lee. Mr. Lan Lee was head of the United States Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, appointed by Bill Clinton. The other Panther defender? Is this other Panther lawyer now an assistant college dean? No! The other Panther defender was, like Lee, a radical law student at Yale University at the time. She likes to be known as “The smartest woman in the world.” She is none other than the Democratic senator from the State of New York, former First Lady, and current leading democratic candidate for the 2008 Presidential nomination, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
To: neverdem
Just heard on Rush that despite having posted $2,000,000 bail, Norman Hsu is again, in the wind!
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posted on
09/05/2007 10:09:40 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(Hillary........brought to you by the PRC)
To: neverdem
Didn’t you get the MSM Memo on this?
As long as Hillary supports the Gay Agenda, the Mainstream media, heavily populated by gays, will cover for her....
In the end, since the Gay Marriage debates of the 2000 election, this has been what EVERYTHING involving the disloyal opposition, including the war, has been about....
18
posted on
09/05/2007 10:12:35 AM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(You can lead a Liberal to LOGIC, but you can't make it THINK)
To: tcrlaf
Bill mangled the cliche by saying “coulda knocked me over with a straw” instead of a feather.
Not surprising he chose something that is used for sucking.
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posted on
09/05/2007 10:34:41 AM PDT
by
y6162
To: neverdem
Look, Hitlery has 900+ files on Americans. What makes people think she doesn’t find out things about others?
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posted on
09/05/2007 10:38:12 AM PDT
by
freekitty
(May the eagles long fly over our beautiful and free American sky.)
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