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Carson Returns Clinton Money
February 11, 2002
By Paul Kane

For Rep. Brad Carson (D-Okla.), contributions from colleagues' political action committees have been a key part of his fundraising efforts, providing almost 10 percent of the $431,081 he received last year. But there's one Member of Congress whose political money the freshman lawmaker believes just won't go over well in his rural and conservative district:Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).

Clinton's HILLPAC cut two $1,000 checks to Carson's campaign committee on June 26, part of dozens of checks sent out that day just before the crucial midyear fundraising deadline.

But in mid-December, Carson returned the checks to HILLPAC without ever having deposited them, according to Federal Election Commission records.

The Congressman acknowledged that Clinton is still enough of a lightning rod in some parts of Oklahoma that he thought it would be better to not accept her money.

"We want to avoid things that just get us into needless controversy," Carson said in an interview last week...

402 posted on 02/11/2002 10:14:24 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Wow---pretty insulting stuff. I like it! :^) The congressman has grit. I don't imagine the folks at HILLPAC much appreciated their efforts being slamed back in their face.
403 posted on 02/11/2002 10:48:56 AM PST by Republic
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Clinton is still enough of a lightning rod in some parts of Oklahoma that he thought it would be better to not accept her money.

Is this a politically correct way of saying Her Heinous's stench has reached to Oklahoma in such proportions that even normal folk there will threaten to fumigate Carson and anyone else who accepts anything from Hildebeast?

408 posted on 02/11/2002 12:16:37 PM PST by nicmarlo
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