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CBS: Hillary Clinton’s Election $hopping $pree

November 21, 2006

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton spent about a gazillion dollars on her election campaign (somewhat odd, since I can barely remember the name of the person who ran against her) and the New York Times has a rundown of all the receipts. It’s a financial record that “has fueled some criticism among Democratic activists and prompted concern among Mrs. Clinton’s supporters, including complaints from some of her fund-raisers that her top aides exercised a lack of discipline.”

That’s because the campaign spent more than $13,000 on flowers, $27,000 for valet parking, as much as $800 in credit card interest in a single month and “paid tens of thousands of dollars a month to an assortment of consultants and aides.” Oh, and “$17 million in advertising and fund-raising mailings.” In all, Clinton spent about $30 million on the campaign.

Clinton was not available for comment, but the campaign’s executive director told the Times: “We’re very pleased with the outcome of this election: the bottom line is victory with 67 percent of the vote, a substantial increase among independents and Republicans, and a list of several hundred thousand donors, beneficial in this and future campaigns.”

As of mid-October, Clinton had $14 million left. The Times notes that “the law allows money left in a Senate campaign fund to be transferred to a presidential campaign.” Not that she’s running or anything.

Source:Â CBS News

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