The Beatings Will Continue…..
The media is officially piling on Hillary! Clinton and her ties to Norman Hsu. There is an awful lot of this stuff on the web today. The Washington Post gleefully reports that that Clinton campaign was warned that a "big fundraiser" was running some sort of Ponzi scheme. They dismissed the warning.
The first lesson of the Hsu episode is one that all candidates — especially candidates named Clinton — ought to have learned after the fundraising scandals of the 1996 presidential campaign: Beware of fundraisers bearing big bundles. To some extent, all candidates are at the mercy of their financiers, taking it on faith that the contributions being solicited are not the product of under-the-table, and illegal, reimbursement schemes. But the bigger the bundle, the more diligence is due in checking out the bundler, especially one like Mr. Hsu, whose source of wealth was not obvious, and whose listed occupation changed from one filing with the Federal Election Commission to another.
The Clinton campaign's failure to discover the fugitive warrant for Mr. Hsu is disturbing; its reported rebuff of warnings about Mr. Hsu is inexcusable. "I am more than ever convinced that a man claiming to be a big fundraiser for Hillary Clinton is running a Ponzi scheme," a California businessman, Jack Cassidy, wrote to the Clinton campaign's finance director for Western states, according to e-mails obtained by the Los Angeles Times. The finance director, Samantha Wolf, no longer with the campaign, dismissed those concerns, asserting, "He is COMPLETELY legit."
As blood in the water draws sharks, the aroma of a money scandal draws the media - regardless of party involved. Keep an eye on Flip today. He's been keeping up his running totals but did not update yesterday.
By quilly mammoth, Wednesday, 12 September , 2007 @ 8:28 am
The Hsu-nammi that washed away Hillary’s presidential ambitions. Every single distasteful fund raising event done in the 90’s will now be brought up. Pictures of Billary with Charlie Trie and Johnny Chueng playing kissy face with Mrs. Clinton followed by picturesof Hsu. Coffe clatches with drug lords. Selling off one night gigs in the Linclon bedroom…
What the Republicans have to do is make an honest commitment to reform. The fact that the Democrats have been even worse than the Republicans in peddling pork can be ties tot his scandal. But only if the Republicans make a new Contract with America.
By feeblemind, Wednesday, 12 September , 2007 @ 9:36 am
So how are HRC’s poll numbers doing?
By Gaius, Wednesday, 12 September , 2007 @ 9:39 am
Still up, but things like this take a while to show up in polls.
By FedUp, Wednesday, 12 September , 2007 @ 10:07 am
The Republicans need to jump on this bandwagon and make sure that these scandals are reported! I’m not looking forward to having a president who is a crook and has been a crook! Guess it follows that she will be a crook… Go figure!