Posted on 09/09/2007 9:16:27 PM PDT by LdSentinal
Democrat National Committee chairman Howard Dean has asked other California and national fundraisers to pick up the slack of disgraced big-time donor Norman Hsu, who is currently under guard in a Colorado hospital after fleeing the San Francisco Bay Area last week.
Hsu was expected to organize at least three major Democrat events on the West Coast in the coming weeks, though at least two of those events are now in doubt.
Hsu, who has raised, by conservative estimates, more than $1 million for Democrats in the past election cycle, spent the latter part of 2006 being wooed by every major Democrat presidential campaign for high profile fundraising roles in their national campaigns. In fact, the Hillary Clinton campaign had offered Hsu a very clear role.
"Around the office it was known back in January or February that Hillary's finance people had offered Norman the finance chair job for the Western part of the country," says a DNC staffer with ties to the Clinton campaign. "It was a similar role that he was seeking from other campaigns before he made his final choice."
"No one vetted him," says another Clinton insider. "The kind of money he was promising and then bringing in was all our people needed to see, and he had a track record."
Now the DNC is trying to figure out where all of Hsu's donor money was coming from, and other presidential campaigns are trying to put their opposition research teams on the case to see if there is more damaging information to use on Hsu against Clinton.
"This has the smell of another Clinton/Chinese money scandal," says a researcher on a rival Democrat presidential campaign. "We weren't ready to trot all of that old history out, but the Hsu story is changing that a bit."
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If I was Hsu, I’d be worried about being ‘fosterized’ right about now...if you know what I mean, and I think that you do!
I would think the Dems would be more concerned about the publicity than $5 million dollars.
But I was talking to somebody and i just had to drop out of the discussion because he just kept saying he could see any reason this should be a problem for Dems at all.
They don’t care where the money comes from, as long as they get it.
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Any idea what made Hsu sick? Unwashed veggies on AMTRAK? Let’s hope his attending physician is not Jim McDougals...We need to put a GPS on Dr. Malek...
Well .. I Think it was Rush who mentioned it first .. saying something about not being surprised if Hsu was “found dead”.
Actually, I agreed with Rush.
Well you see, all the dems have to do is find only one Republican who took a $1.00 donation from Hsu and they can then divert all the scandal to the GOP and have that person removed from office. End of problem. s/
Hsu was supposed to die from his mysterious “illness”
Now he’s still able to testify against them.
If I were him, I’d hire food taster.
At least he was smart enough to not take a plane or hire a car. I give him one point for his deduction to take the train.
Bad Boy Bad Boy
Wha Hsu gonna do?
Wha Hsu gonna do
When she comes for you?
Bookmarked .....
>>Well you see, all the dems have to do is find only one Republican who took a $1.00 donation from Hsu and they can then divert all the scandal to the GOP and have that person removed from office. End of problem. s/<<
While I understand your “/s” it would not surprise me to hear that the Dems have a team working on just that.
What publicity?
That would have been a good time to ask why Hilary and many of the Dims attract such low life to their party/campaigns.
>>I would think the Dems would be more concerned about the publicity than $5 million dollars.
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What publicity?<<
Well there are 2,528 articles today about Hsu on Google news.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=hsu&btnG=Search+News
This compares to 1.025 articles about the terrorist bombing in Algeria.
with any luck,
hsu just might overdose on his meds
in that gj hospital!
A while back I was going to post
Hey, Cho
Where you goin' with that gun in your hand?
but I thought it to be in poor taste.
I’m going to call Dean tomorrow and volunteer to pick up the slack and organize an event...
Hey, they don’t vet anyone, once we get inside their organization who knows what we’ll discover..
Maybe we can learn their money laundering modus operandi and just how pervasive it is.
>>That would have been a good time to ask why Hilary and many of the Dims attract such low life to their party/campaigns.<<
But in general, if a candidate needs $100 million for an election its going to hard to scrutinize the donors.
But in this case I think its a real problem for her. But if Fred really gets his hundred mil there is no way he’s gonna know the background of all his donors who give the limit.
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