Posted on 10/22/2007 4:23:35 AM PDT by shrinkermd
DONORS WHOSE addresses turn out to be tenements. Dishwashers and waiters who write $1,000 checks. Immigrants who ante up because they have been instructed to by powerful neighborhood associations, or, as one said, "They informed us to go, so I went."
Others who say they never made the contributions listed in their names or who were not eligible to give because they are not legal residents of the United States.
This is the disturbingly familiar picture of Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign presented last week in a report by the Los Angeles Times about questionable fundraising by the New York senator in New York City's Chinese community.
Out of 150 donors examined, one-third "could not be found using property, telephone or business records," the Times reported. "Most have not registered to vote, according to public records."
This appears to be another instance in which a Clinton campaign's zeal for campaign cash overwhelms its judgment. After the fundraising scandals of President Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign, the dangers of vacuuming cash from a politically inexperienced immigrant community should have been obvious. But Ms. Clinton's money machine seized on a new source of cash in Chinatown and environs. As the Times reported, a single Chinatown fundraiser in April brought in $380,000. By contrast, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry raised $24,000 from Chinatown in the course of his entire campaign
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I’m still getting over the fainting spells that gripped me when I realized the L.A. Times had done some actual old-fashioned shoe-leather investigative reporting on an important and controversial issue.
The MSM is just not supposed to do this anymore. What did Hilary! do to anger them.
This is lese majeste. Just not done.
These grifters aren’t about to give up on a money-making scheme that has worked before - and they were not punished for using.
Doesn't the LAT have a new owner?
That's the understatement/distortion of the year.
The campaign says that the others, including one who told the Times that he did not give the money, reaffirmed the legitimacy of their contributions.
God the MSM is having a hard time with this. I had to read the above 3 times to decipher it: the Clinton campaign lied and/or gave them wrong information.
Finally, the unasked question is why is this, very likely illegal and foreign, money overwhelmingly going to Clinton.(Duh!)
Maybe they read the poll where 50% of the likely voters said they would never vote for Hillary, and think the Dems should get a different candidate in order to win.
The real headline is that this article appears at all in the Washington Post! Well well.
Hillary’s Campaign: Made in China
Shouldn’t she be indicted for illegally financing her campaign in this open violation of campaign-financing laws? Wonder how many of the Chinese that they can find are here illegally. Who in their right mind would vote for this shady candidate?
ML/NJ
If this were a Republican, the WP would be charging out in front with pitchforks, calling for a criminal investigation and more campaign finance reform. With Hillary, they just chalk it up to zeal.
This is the way that the DBM explains away rampant Clinton Corruption! The Clinton Crime Syndicate is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Communist Chinese Peoples Liberation Army.
The proper title:
SHILLS FOR ORGANIZED CRIME SUPPORT CLINTON.
Vacuuming? More like laundering.
Wow is she desperate. Either that or trying to launder money received from the Clinton Foundation!
After vetting the contributions, they gave back $7000 out of $380,000. Kerry received $24,000 from this same area in 2004. Business as usual for the Clintons.
I thought after Hsu she put in place procedures to stop this. It must one of her millions of ideas that she doesn’t have money for.
Not only that but the WAPO published the story. Is there something afoot in libland or are they just doing the minimal reporting to be able to say “old news, lets move on?’
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