Family’s 45K For Hillary Clinton Draws Fire

August 30, 2007

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign aides yesterday said they won't return tens of thousands of dollars contributed by a seemingly low-income family living in a tiny bungalow tied to one of the Democratic Party's biggest donors.

The campaign's response came a day after The Wall Street Journal reported on the donations from the Paw family of Daly City, Calif.

The father, William, is a mail carrier, and the mother, Alice, is a homemaker. They live in a one-story green bungalow - yet six Paws have given a combined $45,000 to Clinton's Senate and presidential campaigns in the past two years.

They also ranked up with some of the most affluent addresses elsewhere in the country by giving roughly $200,000 to various Democratic White House hopefuls during that time - and their donations hewed closely to those made by apparel executive Norman Hsu, the Journal reported.

The article insinuates that Hsu gave money to the Paws to donate to get around limits on campaign contributions from individuals.

Hsu and the Paws denied their donations were related.

Hsu is slated to host a Sept. 30 fund-raiser in Northern California for Clinton.

Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said that there are no plans to return cash donated either by the Paws or by Hsu, and that the fund-raiser will go on as planned.

Wolfson referred to his statement a day earlier that "we have absolutely no reason to call [Hsu's] contributions into question."

Hsu once listed the Paws' house as his address, according to the Journal.

He cites about a half-dozen businesses as his source of income, including Next Components - a firm that Winkle Paw, one of the Paws' grown children, names as his employer on some of his donations, federal election records show.

Winkle Paw told the Journal that he had sometimes given money at Hsu's request to candidates, but that what he spent was his own.

A man who answered Winkle Paw's cellphone yesterday hung up on a Post reporter.

Hsu's lawyer, Larry Barcella, blasted the Journal story as shoddy reporting based on "innuendo" and said the notion that Hsu reimbursed the Paws was "bull- - - -."

Source: New York Post

Posted by Hillary · Filed Under 2008, Campaign Finance, Crime, Hillary Clinton

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