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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is prepared to run a sharply negative campaign if that’s what it takes to win reelection next year, with a top adviser predicting that the Nevada Democrat will “vaporize” his Republican challengers with attack ads. Trailing in the polls and under constant attack from the GOP, Reid’s campaign has just launched a warm-and-fuzzy million-dollar ad campaign to reintroduce the veteran senator to his constituents. But Reid’s team also wants to be the one that introduces lesser-known opponents to the electorate — and will be ready, when the time comes, to unleash a torrent of ads...

During the Second half of 2008 a former employee of ACORN was working with the NY Times as an infomant about the fraudulent practices of the organization. The Times ran a series of stories on ACORN with the help of Ms Moncreif (the informant). The New York Times articles stopped when Ms. Moncrief, who is a Democrat and a supporter of the President, revealed that the Obama Presidential Campaign was using ACORN as a way to get around campaign laws. The Campaign had sent its maxed out donor list to Karen Gillette of the Washington, DC ACORN office and asked...

A Newsmax investigation of Obama/Biden campaign contributors, undertaken in conjunction with a private investigative firm headed by a former CIA operations officer, has identified 118 donors who appear to lack U.S. citizenship. Some of these “red flag” donors work for foreign governments; others have made public statements declaring that they are citizens of Cameroun, Nigeria, Pakistan, Canada, and other countries. A Newsmax sampling of about 3,400 donors also found hundreds more who showed “yellow flags” such as not having used a Social Security number or a known U.S. address. Most U.S.-born citizens are issued Social Security numbers at birth or...

Islamic leaders tied by federal investigators to the radical Muslim Brotherhood in America – including one under active investigation for alleged terror-financing – have recently donated to Sen. Barack Obama's campaign for president, according to Federal Election Commission records reviewed by WND. Jamal M. Barzinji earlier this year gave Obama $1,000, a gift that records show has not been returned. Other Democratic candidates, including Rep. Jim Moran, have refunded donations from Barzinji since federal agents raided his Virginia home and offices in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Obama's top Muslim adviser resigned earlier this month over controversy surrounding his...

Workers from a second activist organization have been implicated in falsifying Milwaukee voter registration forms, bringing to 15 the number of voter registration workers who could face scrutiny for trying to sign up dead, imprisoned or fictitious voters, according to the Milwaukee Election Commission and the organizations that paid the workers. For two of the workers, managers at the Community Voters Project caught much of the fraud, fired the workers and reported the problems before the registration cards were turned in, said Sue Edman, the election commission’s executive director, and Ayodele Carroo, the organization’s national director. That involved 15 or...

Documents show how the fundraiser's network pitched the deals that allegedly turned his Clinton ties into gold. Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu reveled in his role as friend to Bill and Hillary Clinton. As Hsu raised more than $800,000 for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, the couple praised him at star-studded events and showered him with thank-you notes. Hsu often wore a bomber jacket that bore the presidential seal, a gift from the former president, he told associates. But Hsu's turn in the political limelight was about more than ego gratification. Documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times show how...

Hsu Wowed the Democrats As He Beguiled Investors; 'He Craved Attention' November 12, 2007; Page A1 By the time Norman Hsu flew to Beverly Hills in early September and checked into the Raffles L'Ermitage hotel, the life of the top Democratic donor and self-professed clothing magnate was coming unraveled. Mr. Hsu, a slight, 56-year-old immigrant from Hong Kong, was under investigation for campaign-finance violations. An old grand-theft charge had come back to haunt him. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and other politicians had begun returning his donations. He was so distraught that he sent off suicide notes before leaving his Manhattan...

Hillary Clinton is raising huge piles of money in Chinatown, from donors who can't be located or who were improperly repaid for their contributions......Shin K. Cheng is listed twice in federal records, giving Clinton $1,000 donations. But the address recorded on campaign reports is a clinic for sexually transmitted diseases, hemorrhoids and skin disease. No one at the address knew Shin K. Cheng. Hsiao Yen Wang, a cook in Chinatown, is listed as giving Clinton $1,000.......she told The Post she had written a check....on behalf of a man named David Guo, president of the Fujian American Cuisine Council, and Guo...

Election 2008: An ambitious presidential front-runner. A hot scramble for campaign cash. A corner-cutting past. And now red lights are flashing that she could be in hock to foreign interests. This is going downhill fast. How else does one explain the cash rolling in to Hillary Clinton's campaign from residents of Manhattan's impoverished Chinatown? The Los Angeles Times on Friday uncovered an amazingly generous spirit of giving from Fujianese immigrant dishwashers and trinket sellers, hundreds of whom "spontaneously" coughed up $1,000 or $2,000 apiece for Clinton's presidential campaign. The $380,000 from their giving dwarfed the $24,000 that John Kerry raised...

While we no longer need to worry about the whereabouts of the habitually slippery Norman Hsu, there's another central figure in this Democratic fundraising/investment fraud scandal that may have slithered away amid the sensational hubbub. Winkle Paw, Hsu's most delightfully named associate, seems to have turned up missing.

Clinton report lists refunds to 249 Hsu donors Much of the more than $800,000 that the campaign sent back ... came from California. WASHINGTON -- The full extent of accused swindler Norman Hsu's political network was revealed for the first time Monday in campaign finance reports filed by presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), who refunded $804,850 in contributions from 249 Hsu associates. The donors came from 22 states and Washington, D.C., but Californians accounted for the largest amount refunded from the Hsu network, $308,000. New Yorkers contributed $286,000, and $55,000 came from donors in New Jersey and Connecticut....

FReepers, this is the SECOND in a series of facsimile transmission to the office of Senator Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton. I am hoping she will take the opportunity to clear up some questions and give us her side of the story. Any response from her will be published here. No. 1 - Lying Howard Wolfson

Hillary Clinton and other Democrats scrambled to distance themselves from a big-name party fundraiser who was exposed Wednesday as a fugitive who disappeared 15 years ago after pleading no contest to felony grand theft in the Bay Area. Norman Hsu, a 56-year-old New York resident, also has been linked to a Daly City family that has become a major Democratic donor. The family has given money to many of the same candidates and party causes as Hsu, their longtime friend and business partner. Some Democrats also were scrutinizing contributions from members of the Daly City family, the Paws, who could...

DALY CITY, Calif. -- One of the biggest sources of political donations to Hillary Rodham Clinton is a tiny, lime-green bungalow that lies under the flight path from San Francisco International Airport. Six members of the Paw family, each listing the house at 41 Shelbourne Ave. as their residence, have donated a combined $45,000 to the Democratic senator from New York since 2005, for her presidential campaign, her Senate re-election last year and her political action committee. In all, the six Paws have donated a total of $200,000 to Democratic candidates since 2005, election records show.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. David Scott has used his campaign account to pay more than $500,000 to four family members and his family's business, according to an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The Atlanta Democrat, who graduated from the prestigious Wharton School of Business, also had had more than 40 tax liens — some dating to the 1980s and 1990s — placed against his home and business, the Atlanta-based Dayn-Mark Advertising.

KIDS ASK DOUG FROM UPLAND about Hillary?s campaign finance fraud - No. 1 NOTE: this is No. 1 in a series of letters as I answer children's questions about Hillary Clinton's campaign finance fraud. ============================================ Dear Doug from Upland, My teacher just loves Hillary and thinks she can do nothing wrong. I don?t quite understand it, but my dad says that Hillary is a switch-hitter and that is why my teacher likes her. I heard my parents talking about Hillary and some lying weasel named Howard Wolfson who has been lying about her campaign money for over six years. Why...

25 EPISODES OF PETER PAUL AND HILLARY =======================================================================NOTE: This is the 19th episode in a series of stories regarding the events surrounding Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Hollywood fundraiser, and the business relationship of entrepreneur Peter Paul, the impeached William Jefferson Clinton, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, perpetrator of the largest campaign finance fraud in the history of Western civilization. If there is one thing that I have learned from my recent friendship with Peter Paul, it is that he really is full of surprises. A week or so ago, I got a FReepmail from someone with the screen name krucader_bravepages_com. The...

WATCH IT ON YOUTUBE On July 11, 2000 occured a incredible conference call. Participating were Peter Paul, Kelly Craighead, David Rosen, Aaron Tonken, Jim Levin, and Howard Wolfson. They discussed the event planned for three days before the DNC's August convention in Los Angeles. They discussed the event costing more than a million dollars. Although Peter agreed to pay for half of it, when Cynthia Gershman bailed, he paid for the whole thing. Ultimately, is cost around $1.6 million. Three days after the event, Hillary had Wolfson tell the WashPost and all of the voters that they would take...

A very short hearing was held this morning in the historic civil case Paul v Clinton, et al. Judge Aurelio Munoz ruled that depositions cannot go forward until the appeal is settled regarding his April decision to remove Hillary as a defendant. As usual, despite notification to most of the mainstream sources in Los Angeles, there was no media in the courtroom. It was after the hearing when the fun began. A new toy came on Saturday -- a SONY Digital 8 movie cam. What a perfect opportunity to use it. FReeper The Spirit of Allegiance was the cam operator....

Clinton lawyer Kendall accused of filing false statement Suit by top donor claims ex-president in scheme to destroy business Posted: September 23, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Art Moore © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com Clinton attorney David Kendall (PBS.org) Bill Clinton's longtime attorney David Kendall is accused of filing a fabricated statement in a court brief to quash a multi-million-dollar lawsuit against the former president. In legal pleadings filed this week with Los Angeles Superior Court, business mogul Peter Franklin Paul claims Kendall cobbled together two unrelated quotes from a March 2005 federal court hearing in an attempt to pin on Paul...