Skeletons, Skeletons
Do Bill and Hillary! Clinton have a special closet to keep all of their skeletons in? As if the Norman Hsu scandal isn't enough to deal with, the Clintons are still dealing with accusations stemming from Hillary's 2000 run for the US Senate. That plus all the corruption from the 1990's scandals (and let's not go back to commodities trading and Whitewater - those were flogged to death) just puts a nasty little odor around the Clintons - yet again.
LOS ANGELES — As Sen. Hillary Clinton grapples with the burgeoning scandal surrounding disgraced fund-raiser Norman Hsu, she can't quite shake a fund-raising controversy from her 2000 Senate campaign.
Mrs. Clinton's entanglement with a thrice-convicted felon named Peter Paul is proof of how long campaign-finance problems can haunt a public official. Mr. Paul became a problem for Mrs. Clinton when his criminal past became public shortly after he helped organize and finance a gala Hollywood fund-raiser for her in August 2000.
Rather than drift away, Mr. Paul has been on the attack against Mrs. Clinton ever since. In a lawsuit in California state court that has been grinding along for years, Mr. Paul accuses Mrs. Clinton and former President Bill Clinton of deceiving him into spending well over $1 million on the fund-raiser for her Senate campaign. Mr. Paul contends the Clintons obtained the money by falsely promising that Mr. Clinton would become Mr. Paul's business associate after leaving the White House in January 2001. Mr. Paul also maintains that Mrs. Clinton and her campaign violated federal election law in connection with the fund-raiser.
Read it all. Paul keeps producing evidence and the suit is still perking along. Don't get me wrong, Paul doesn't sound like all that nice a guy, what with three felony convictions - one recent. But there is a pattern emerging, isn't there? The Clinton affinity for letting people with very, very shady backgrounds gain access is a pretty ugly thing. The media does not appear to be inclined to let the Clintons off the hook, either. They keep going back to that special closet and digging out fresh skeletons.
By FedUp, Friday, 14 September , 2007 @ 2:53 pm
“Paul not a nice guy”… so… he’s in very good company! It just gets better ‘n’ better! Maybe they’ll start digging up skeletons once they get all those out of the closet… Whadya think?