Clinton Helping Clinton Retire Debt [Clinton Foundation Business Helps Reduce Hillary Clinton's....]

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Clinton Helping Clinton Retire Debt Clinton Foundation Business Helps Reduce Hillary Clinton's Remaining Campaign Debt By RICK KLEIN

Dec. 24, 2008 —

Sen. Hillary Clinton's in-the-red campaign committee has found an innovative way to pay down a slice of its debt -- and is getting help from President Clinton's foundation, among other groups, in making it happen.

The William J. Clinton Foundation this week became the latest outside group to buy access to the vast e-mail list compiled by the New York senator's campaign. Political insiders believe the list is second only to President-elect Barack Obama's in its size and efficiency in reaching potential donors.

Clinton political aides and officials with the foundation confirm that the foundation paid the campaign committee to send a fundraising solicitation Monday. In the e-mail to HillaryClinton.com users, Chelsea Clinton asks for year-end gifts to the foundation, touting its work on HIV/AIDS.

Aides declined to specify what the foundation paid the campaign committee for the list; the figure won't have to be reported publicly until next month. They said outside vendors were consulted to set a "fair market" price for the Clinton Foundation to rent the list, in keeping with federal law.

Since there's little precedent for a national political figures selling access to their lists, estimates of what such an e-mail list would cost vary wildly, and would depend in part on whether a group is trying to reach a full list or targeted segments.

Some experts say buying access to a high-quality batch of several million addresses for a fundraising appeal would easily run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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Well, well. Imagine that...

[weegee]

So the Saudi funded Clinton Foundation is funding Hillary’s lost campaign. SURELY there has to be illegal use of foreign contributions here.

[4rcane]

this should be illegal if its not. Otherwise you could get around election campaign financing laws with unlimited donations from a single individual just by financing your campaign with debet and just get a single private company to bail you out

[rod1]

I assume it is a tax exempt foundation?! No way they shohld be able to keep that status yet funnel money to a political campaign

What do they call this? Buying a service for the foundation, like Daisy Maid?

Because they sure are cleaning up.

[llevrok]

I think it is called money laundering....

[SERKIT]

The retirement of Hillary's campaign debt using Bill's foreign-sourced money is chicken feed compared with Barry's $700M+ un-audited war chest, with at least some of the money suspected to be foreign-sourced.

Even if there is a "controlling legal authority" to go after both candidates, the country seems to not have the stomach to investigate. This lack of investigative imagination goes to the Drive-By Media willing accomplices and un-motivated Federal agencies.

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Saudi funded, yes.

And the Saudi influence over our Government and Country remain.

[Aria]

What’s amazing is so many on the left like to blame the Republicans for their ties with BIG OIL. But seems to me it’s the left with their bans on drilling oil and other types of energy who are the one helping out BIG OIL and this is being done at the expense of the US of A and its citizens.

Traitors!