LOL, SOMEBODY vettet him.
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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Nope!
It was posted here first, before Rush said anything.
What, are they really that afraid of her?
LOL, SOMEBODY vettet him.
Wonder who would volunteer to be Hsu’s food taster? Me? I’d rather go back to VN...
Is this front page in the U.S. papers? Is it leading the nightly news? And is the Clinton connection being front-loaded or buried?
There can be plenty of Saturday edition, inside articles, but I have not and will not see the kind of hysterical drum beat I see with Republican scandals.
Just ask your self what the coverage would be like for a similar criminal connection to President Bush when he was a candidate?
And yes, all it will take is one Republican haven taken two cents fron this guy and that will be the headline news. It will morph into a “general corruption” scandal, highlighting the need for “change” [read:elect Democrats].
Yes.
No biggy either way. Everyone was thinking it.
‘Well .. I Think it was Rush who mentioned it first .. saying something about not being surprised if Hsu was “found dead”.’
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According to our friend from Upland, the other Hsu is dropping in LA at this current time. Hello, anyone seen David Kendall lately?
Yup, I’m going to volunteer under the pseudonym “wun slung lo”
It was on the front page for a day on many papers or certainly in the first few papers. I think its getting about the right coverage. Part of the problem is the Peter Paul hysteria in some circles has not helped - its been a but of boy cries wolf situation. now that there is something documentably real it will take more to escalate it to very serious. Right now its a crooked fund raiser who gave money to Dems.
I know what you mean, but I think his worries on that score are pretty much over. He raised his profile high enough that even the Clintons wouldn't dare to hurt him.
The Dems had too much Hsu-fly pie.
any russian spies come over lately with radioactive substances? that’ll make you sick!
The Dems don’t have to worry about bad publicity one because their friends and party members in the liberal media, CNN for example, won’t shine any light on Democratic wrong doing. Two, wrong doing does not apply to Democrats only Republicans. Wrong doing is a way of life for Democrats, it’s the air that keeps them alive just look at the history of the Kennedys and the Clintons.
It is going to be a test of the Clintons’ power. The Clintons have an enormous advantage in DBM support. If O. Hussein were white, he’d be media toast by now. His pigmentation has captured the hearts of many Leftists, and he is doing surprisingly well.
The Clintons carry with them a reputation for vindictiveness and they have left a lot of bodies in their wake, (politically AND literally!) If they can keep enough people cowed she will be the nominee. Obama may be in line for veep, but Gov. Richardson can deliver the Mexican vote while blacks will vote Dem no matter who is the candidate, so he is more likely to take that spot.
Apparently, it was Fred Thompson who chaired a committee to look into the 96 campaign, but he got rolled by John Glen. So here we are again.
I remember it well. The news media pretty much blacked it out until the Democrats dragged in Haley Barbour with some piddly accusation. CNN covered that wall-to-wall.
Meanwhile, John McCain helped diffuse the scandal by characterizing it as as a general "campaign finance" problem, thereby directing the focus off of Clinton's Red Army money connection.
Would we also want to know if Fred had the same problem?
I see this as a clintoon and democratic problem of long standing.
I am willing to flush whatever turds are swimming in my toilet.
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