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Hillary Clinton’s Latest Fundraising Scandal

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign was hit by scandal for the first time yesterday when it emerged that one of her leading fundraisers was a convicted fraudster who had been on the run for 15 years.

Mrs Clinton, who until now has run a relentlessly disciplined campaign, was forced on to the defensive after it emerged that Norman Hsu, who has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for her, was wanted in California after failing to appear for sentencing on a grand theft conviction in 1991.

The Clinton campaign, which defended Mr Hsu earlier this week when questions first emerged about his integrity, said it would donate to charity the $23,000 (£11,000) he had given to the New York senator and former First Lady.

He has also raised nearly $1 million for Democratic candidates generally since 2003, including John Kerry, the 2004 White House candidate. Many were rushing last night to divest themselves of his contributions.

But concerns were emerging last night about the methods Mr Hsu, a Hong Kong businessman based in New York, had used in his role as one of Mrs Clinton’s big fundraisers.

Mr Hsu was a leading “bundler” for Mrs Clinton – a key fundraiser who finds donors and then packages their cheques together. He is a member of her “HillRaiser” team, individuals who have pledged to raise more than $100,000. Next week he was due to co-host a Californian fundraising gala featuring the musician Quincy Jones.

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Hillary Clinton and Democrats Race To Ditch Dirty Cash

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and other prominent Democrats scrambled to unload thousands of dollars of contributions from one of the party's leading fund-raisers, amid questions about his fund-raising techniques and news that a warrant for his arrest has been languishing in California since the early 1990s.

The swift political rise — and fall — of Norman Hsu, an obscure New York businessman who never donated to a presidential candidate before 2004, underscores the tremendous pressure candidates are facing this election cycle to raise unprecedented sums of money, and in the process turning to financiers the campaigns may know little about.

Questions surrounding Mr. Hsu's marshalling of funds on behalf of Mrs. Clinton and other candidates were first highlighted by The Wall Street Journal earlier this week. The Journal noted unusual patterns between Mr. Hsu's political donations and those of people he knew, in particular the residents of a tiny house in Daly City, Calif., who often gave large contributions on the exact same day and for the exact same amount Mr. Hsu did.

Election-law experts said the pattern raises red flags that justify a probe into whether the wealthy Mr. Hsu was improperly reimbursing the others for their donations. Mr. Hsu denied any reimbursement or any wrongdoing.

Beyond his $23,000 in personal contributions to Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Hsu had raised well over $1 million for the New York senator's presidential campaign, making him one of her top 20 "bundlers." His reach extended well beyond the presidential race, as he has also raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for House and Senate Democrats and governors across the country.

Earlier this week, Clinton campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson responded to questions about Mr. Hsu by saying "there has been no question about his integrity or his commitment to playing by the rules, and we have absolutely no reason to call his contributions into question."

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Hillary Has More Than One Dirty Donor - How many more are there?

Hillary Clinton has been under fire for taking donations from a wanted criminal, Norman Hsu, and says she will give the money to charity.  Okay, what about Pakistani immigrant, Abdul Rehman Jinnah?  Hillary also claimed to not know about her donor's illegal activities and said those donations would be given to charity.  From the March 4, 2007 edition of the New York Post:

The FBI is hunting Los Angeles businessman Abdul Rehman Jinnah, who vanished soon after his grand-jury indictment for violating federal election laws last May.

Clinton's camp has denied any knowledge of Jinnah's scheme, which is also alleged to have funneled more than $50,000 in illegal donations to the political action committees of Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday.

Jinnah, 56, a cellphone and frozen-yogurt businessman, allegedly collected campaign donations from family members, friends and employees at fake fund-raising events - then reimbursed them. The scam allowed him to evade the $2,000 limit on individual contributions to candidates, the feds say.

He is believed to have fled to his native Pakistan after his indictment on charges of conspiracy and making illegal campaign contributions.

The FBI has posted Jinnah's mug shot on its featured fugitive list.

Hillary Clinton's donors should be closely examined.  There will be more dirty money found, no doubt.

Hillary Clinton: What a card!

Mark Finkelstein from NewsBusters has a great idea to hopefully put Hillary on the spot!:

That Hillary Clinton — what a card!

According to an email I've received from her campaign, Hillary is really venturing into the lion's den, with TV appearances scheduled tonight on Letterman and on September 4 on the Ellen DeGeneres show. Daring stuff!

In any case, according to the email:

Ellen is soliciting questions from her viewers to ask of Hillary, and we want to turn it around on her. So if you have a question for Hillary to ask Ellen, submit it here.

Such a prankster, that Hillary. Wild 'n crazy stuff!

Sure, go ahead and submit a question to Hillary. But keep it clean, and remember, you'll be adding yourself to Hillary's email list, so expect to receive lots of future fundraising solicitations.

For that matter, within those keep-it-clean-guidelines, why not let us know here what would your question from Hillary to Ellen be?

Source:  NewsBusters

Hillary is not a warrior, she’s a bully

By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann

If women are from Venus and men are from Mars, the former valuing peace and the latter reveling in war, Hillary Rodham Clinton is a lot more like Mars than Venus.

She loves war.

Indeed, like a dolphin or a submarine, she can only define where she is or who she is by bouncing her sonar off her opponents. It is only in the crucible of conflict that she is truly alive and self-aware. Conflict is the principle which permits her to organize her life. Peacetime is an invitation to entropy.

Hillary Clinton’s handlers like to promote her image as an embattled warrior — a relentless foot soldier dedicated to the dual crusades of fighting for the exalted principles of goodness and light while simultaneously defeating the ever-present forces of darkness and evil.

A modern-day Celtic warrior queen or Joan of Arc — that’s the spin on Hillary. But in reality, Hillary’s favorite wars are much less lofty and much more self-centered and mean-spirited. Hillary emphatically comes from the “us versus them” school of American politics. Like Richard Nixon, the politician she so closely resembles, she sees the world in extraordinarily simple terms: There are those who agree with her and support her and then there’s the rest of the world. Those who don’t agree with her are bunched together and known collectively as “the enemy” — that vast right wing conspiracy that must be vilified, beaten, and destroyed . . . whatever it takes.

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