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Posted on 03/30/2008 6:45:32 AM PDT by george76
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s cash-strapped presidential campaign has been putting off paying hundreds of bills for months — freeing up cash for critical media buys, but also earning the campaign a reputation as something of a deadbeat in some small business circles.
A pair of Ohio companies owed more than $25,000 by Clinton for staging events for her campaign are warning others in the tight-knit event production community — and anyone else who will listen — to get their cash upfront when doing business with her. Her campaign, say representatives of the two companies, has stopped returning phone calls and e-mails seeking payment of outstanding invoices. One even got no response from a certified letter.
Their cautionary tales, combined with published reports about similar difficulties faced by a New Hampshire landlord, an Iowa office cleaner and a New York caterer highlight a less-obvious impact of Clinton’s inability to keep up with the staggering fundraising pace set ...
It’s not just the size of Clinton’s debts that’s noteworthy. It’s also that her unpaid bills extend beyond the realm of high-priced consultants who typically let bills slide as part of the cost of doing business with powerful clientele whose success is linked to their own.
Some of Clinton’s biggest debts are to pollster and chief strategist Mark Penn, who’s owed $2.5 million; direct mail company MSHC Partners, which is owed $807,000; phone-banking firm Spoken Hub, which is waiting for $771,000; and ad maker Mandy Grunwald, who’s owed $467,000.
word is getting around that Clinton’s campaign does not promptly pay those who labor to make her events look good, said an employee of the event production company Forty Two of Youngstown, Ohio.
“I feel insulted by the way that the campaign treated this company and treated us personally,”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
WOW! With that expression, does Chelsea look like Hubble or what?
SUCKERS! The Clintons, and a lot of Democrats, treat "little people" like they should be pleased to be their doormats. John Glenn was holding fundraisers 20 yrs. after he ran for President to pay the small businessmen that had produced what his campaign needed. Once he retired from the Senate, he still left unpaid bills, since it no longer embarrassed him. If Hildabeast is not the next president, these people should not look to be paid anytime soon.
As someone else said in this thread, don’t sell to politicians or lawyers.
Many years ago I worked for a lawn maintenance company. One client was an attorney (his personal and office property). My boss had to go collect every bill in person. He told me that attorneys were his worst payers.
Anyway, supplying goods or services to a political campaign for anything other than cash up front rates no sympathy. Regardless of the party affiliation of the candidate.
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Hillary is the energizer bunny of campaign finance fraud and dirty dealing.
Hi, Doug. Yes, she is.
Haha. Perfect.
Thanks.
Thank you Lucy!
That is a lot of bills. (and I thought that I had a lot.... LOL)
Well done.
Nice work with her ( HSU ) hat too.
Thanks george. That’s the only one I have of her holding money.
I’d like to pay back the millions my defunct presidential campaign owes out of my personal holdings, but unfortunately, (for them) campaign finance laws prevent me from doing just that - heh heh — John Glenn (D - Ohio).
Well turn out the lights, it was fun while it lasted but this party is over.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971326/posts
Deja vu: Hillary stiffs another businessman: Latest financial skullduggery in Clinton camp
Nice.
I am stealing it.
Former President Bill Clinton speaks in support of his wife, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., at the California Democratic Convention, Sunday, March 30, 2008 in San Jose, Calif.
It’s time for ole Billto tap those off shore bank accounts.
The New York senator’s presidential campaign ended February with $38 million in the bank, according to a report filed last week with the Federal Election Commission, but only $16 million of that can be spent on her battle with Obama.
The rest can be spent only in the general election, if she makes it that far, and must be returned if she doesn’t. If she had paid off the $8.7 million in unpaid bills she reported as debt and had not loaned her campaign $5 million, the cash she would have had available at the end of last month to spend on television ads and other upfront expenses would have been less than $2 million.
By contrast, if you subtract Obama’s $625,000 in debts and his general-election-only money from his total cash on hand at the end of last month, he’d still be left with $31 million.
The presidential campaign of presumptive Republican nominee Arizona Sen. John McCain reported $4.3 million in debt at the end of February, but only $1.3 million of that was in the form of unpaid bills to a dozen vendors. The rest was a bank loan, which the campaign says it paid off last week.
"I owe you NOTHING!"
"Yeah, I figured as much. Yo! Rocko! Help the Senator find her checkbook."
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