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In Charity and Politics, Clinton Donors Overlap
NY Times ^ | 12/20/07 | Don Van Natta Jr., Jo Becker and Mike McIntire

Posted on 12/19/2007 9:26:39 PM PST by NormsRevenge

Over the last decade, former President Bill Clinton has raised more than $500 million for his foundation, allowing him to build a glass-and-steel presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., and burnish his image as an impresario of global philanthropy. The foundation has closely guarded the identities of its donors — including one who gave $31.3 million last year.

Now, the secrecy surrounding the William J. Clinton Foundation has become a campaign issue as Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton seeks the Democratic presidential nomination with her husband as a prime source of strategy and star power. Some of her rivals argue that donors could use presidential foundations to circumvent campaign finance laws intended to limit political influence.

Mr. Clinton himself echoed those concerns this fall when he pledged to make public future donors if Mrs. Clinton was elected president. While disclosure is not legally required, failure to do so, Mr. Clinton said, would raise “all these questions about whether people would try to win favor with her by giving money to me.”

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The New York Times has compiled the first comprehensive list of 97 donors who gave or pledged a total of $69 million for the Clinton presidential library in the final years of the Clinton administration. The examination found that while some $1 million contributors were longtime Clinton friends, others were seeking policy changes from the administration. Two pledged $1 million each while they or their companies were under investigation by the Justice Department.

Other donations came from supporters who had been ensnared in campaign finance scandals surrounding Mr. Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign.

In raising record sums for her campaign, Mrs. Clinton has tapped many of the foundation’s donors. At least two dozen have become “Hillraisers,” each bundling $100,000 or more for her presidential bid. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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KEYWORDS: charity; clinton; donors; giving; hillary; overlap; politics
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To: Grampa Dave; SunkenCiv

The New York Times has compiled the first comprehensive list of 97 donors who gave or pledged a total of $69 million for the Clinton presidential library in the final years of the Clinton administration.

The examination found that while some $1 million contributors were longtime Clinton friends, others were seeking policy changes from the administration.

Two pledged $1 million each while they or their companies were under investigation by the Justice Department.


21 posted on 12/20/2007 8:29:19 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Grampa Dave
Hilliarily Evita Peron Clintoon is such a blatant opportunist.
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She seems an astute business woman.
22 posted on 12/20/2007 8:38:34 AM PST by IrishMike (Liberalism is Jihad from within)
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To: IrishMike; Grampa Dave; Liz; Yaelle; Ann Archy; NormsRevenge; doug from upland; SunkenCiv; blam; ...
We should not forget:

This Day in History 1998: President Clinton impeached
THE HISTORY CHANNEL ^ | December 19, 1998 | THE HISTORY CHANNEL

23 posted on 12/20/2007 8:45:10 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Grampa Dave
The NY Slimes has decided that Hillary isn’t progressive enough....?

And prefers a much friendler leftie named Obama....?

24 posted on 12/20/2007 8:49:18 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Grampa Dave

“mediots” — I love that. :’)


25 posted on 12/20/2007 9:24:17 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Tuesday, December 18, 2007___________________https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: IrishMike; conservatism_IS_compassion
Clinton predicted those words would cause the price of oil to suddenly drop, to $60 or $70 a barrel.

Why stop there? Talk is cheap. Hillary ought to just keep on talking and use the power of public relations to get the price of oil down to $40 a barrel.


Coral Ridge Ministries: Proclaiming truths that transform the world.

26 posted on 12/20/2007 10:57:24 AM PST by Milhous (Gn 22:17 your descendants shall take possession of the gates of their enemies)
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To: Liz

OMG! A Rogue’s Gallery of creepy donors.


27 posted on 12/20/2007 1:33:34 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Liz

OMG! A Rogue’s Gallery of creepy donors.


28 posted on 12/20/2007 1:33:39 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Grampa Dave

Clinton Liebrary.....Clinton LAUNDROMAT!


29 posted on 12/20/2007 1:34:47 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

Clinton Liebrary/LAUNDROMAT!


30 posted on 12/20/2007 1:39:15 PM PST by Grampa Dave ("Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!"- Jim Robinson, Sept, 30, 2007)
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To: Grampa Dave

That IS better.


31 posted on 12/20/2007 1:40:20 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

One can only imagine the good these two could have done if they had raised money for a legit charities like the Salvation Army.


32 posted on 12/20/2007 1:44:16 PM PST by Grampa Dave ("Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!"- Jim Robinson, Sept, 30, 2007)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

When stuff like this hits the fans, I remember Rush’s comments about the Clintons and there are no accidential exposure of them in the liebral media.


33 posted on 12/20/2007 1:56:47 PM PST by Grampa Dave ("Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!"- Jim Robinson, Sept, 30, 2007)
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To: Grampa Dave

They seem to own the Media....


34 posted on 12/20/2007 2:23:48 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Grampa Dave; Ann Archy; NormsRevenge; Milhous; IrishMike; conservatism_IS_compassion; SunkenCiv; ...
From the Blogosphere ( Captain's Quarters):

December 20, 2007
The Hillary We All Know

*********************EXCERPT********************

Hillary Clinton just launched her new site The Hillary I Know, designed to humanize her to draw down her high negatives, amid much fanfare. On the same servers, ABC News discovered a few other websites that Hillary plans to launch. She has set up domains for websites designed to attack Barack Obama and to claim that they attacked her first:

ABC News has learned that the campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has registered the names of two websites with the express goal of attacking her chief rival, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, the first time this election cycle a presidential campaign has launched a website with the express purpose of criticizing a rival.

"Votingpresent.com" and "Votingpresent.org" are domains hosted by the same IP address as official Clinton websites, such as TheHillaryIKnow.com website, which was launched with much fanfare this week.

The Clinton campaign intends to use these new websites to paint Obama as cowardly. ...

Clinton's campaign has also introduced, quietly, a website called Attacktimeline.com, which Clinton officials say chronicles the ways Obama and former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., were criticizing her publicly long before she began returning fire.

How Clintonian! Attacking opponents for attacking her while attacking them. James Carville once said, "It's hard for someone to hit you when you have your fist in their face." It's even harder to attack one's opponents while shooting one's self in the foot -- repeatedly.

Hillary has the highest negatives of any serious contender on both sides of this race. Criticism of "present" votes certainly makes sense, but setting up an entire website for it goes beyond Carvillian. And trying to garner sympathy for being a front-runner is not only futile, it makes her look thin-skinned and petulant.

Who's advising this campaign, anyway? A more competent staff would have figured out how to work the criticism into the campaign without turning it into an apparent obsession, and without the poor-me companion website.

Posted by Ed Morrissey on December 20, 2007 10:07 AM |


35 posted on 12/20/2007 2:42:52 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
James Carville once said, "It's hard for someone to hit you when you have your fist in their face."
I hated him in "The Hills Have Eyes".
36 posted on 12/20/2007 2:45:56 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Tuesday, December 18, 2007___________________https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Victimhood don’t play like it use to..

Bill should’ve just stayed in Harlem and blown his horn and Hil finished out her term and then take a hiatus.. a nice long hiatus. It’s not like they don’t have the money.


37 posted on 12/20/2007 2:55:31 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

38 posted on 12/20/2007 3:16:28 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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