Posted on 11/29/2007 1:25:44 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Host Indicted, Clinton Fund-Raiser Canceled
Mary Jacoby reports on the presidential race.
A Dec. 15 fund-raising event for Hillary Clinton at the home of prominent Mississippi trial laywer Richard “Dickie” Scruggs is off, now that Scruggs has been indicted for bribery.
Bill Clinton was set to be the star attraction at the event at Scruggs’s Oxford, Miss., home. Hillary Clinton wasn’t scheduled to attend. It was the first event that Scruggs, who made a fortune suing the tobacco industry in the 1990s, had offered to host for Clinton, a campaign spokesman said. It was canceled on Wednesday, after the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided his home and the federal indictment was announced.
Unlike Norman Hsu, the apparel executive who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the campaign before it was revealed he’d been charged in California with fraud, Scruggs was not a Clinton “bundler” funneling donations from friends and associates, the campaign said.
Over the years, Scruggs has been a generous donor to Democrats, but he’s also given money to Republican candidates. He gave $4,200 to Clinton’s Senate campaign in 2005 but hadn’t made a donation yet to her presidential bid. Scruggs’s brother-in-law is Sen. Trent Lott (R., Miss.), who just announced his intention to leave the Senate before the end of the year.
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Out of the 535 members currently on board in the Senate and House there aren't a dozen that amount to more than a bucket of warm spit.
The whole system is corrupt. Granted, the dems are the things floating on the surface of the whole fetid mess but the pretty much the whole bunch needs flushing.
A lot of things here in the South travel in strange circles.
CNN is the Pravda of Arm of Clinton Inc.
Another fundraising scandal for Clinton Inc?
Trent (Didn’t do A ) Lott
“....the whole bunch needs flushing.”.....they are the proverbial turds in the punch bowl for sure.
So he decided that Hillary was just too unsavory of a candidate to be associated with. That’s rich.
So far, Gupta is only under SEC investigation.
But he has apparently violated campaign finance laws in the past by using his family as straw donors. A good article about that was published yesterday -
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2007/11/do-it-donate-for-children.html
If his son’s statement was accurate, Gupta committed a felony.
What’s “odd” is that the only political connection I’d heard from the MSM before this was that Scruggs’ brother-in-law was Republican Trent Lott. Gee, wonder why? /sarc
With Lott running interference at Dept. of Justice for him, Dickey made a real fortune scamming the tobacco companies and the “victms” too! Makes me wanna puke!
Trent Lott’s brother in law and ‘tied up’ with Michael Moore;
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/settlement/deal/people/scruggs.html
The Clintons can’t stay out of the ‘mire’, whoops - THEY are the mire!
I asked that question yesterday. Perhaps it did.
LLS
LOL and true to boot. Like flies on poop, the 'toons sure attract Post Office poster types...
How does that go again...”And their sins shall find them out?”
All liberals.
Don't insult Pravda like that. THe propaganda of CNN is entertainment for other liberals.
Trent WAS a Democrat.....he hasn’t come far.
WIth the exception of everyone involved with the RNC of Mississippi, I would agree.
McCain and Arlen being the lead in that pack.
canceled or merely postponed until bail is made?
BTTT
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