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Home Front: Politix
Clintons to Return $850,000 in Hsu Funds
2007-09-11
Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign dramatically severed all ties to disgraced fundraiser Norman Hsu, announcing Monday night it will return more than $850,000 he raised from some 260 donors.
I can see Hillary's fingernails on each bundle of dough. "Give 'em back! You bastards, I want that money back right now!!"
Clinton's campaign, one of several Democratic committees that Hsu raised money for or donated to, also has decided to increase its screening of major fund-raisers, requiring them to submit to the extraordinary additional step of a criminal background check, campaign aides said.
That's going to cut the dollars coming in. And I want a copy of each report.
Clinton's campaign decided more than a week ago to return some $23,000 Hsu personally donated to her various campaigns. After learning of a Los Angeles Times report that the FBI was investigating Hsu, Clinton on Monday personally ordered her campaign to return all the money he has raised, a senior aide said.

"Mr. Hsu donated to numerous charities and more than two dozen candidates and committees," Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said. "Despite conducting a thorough review of public records, our campaign like others were unaware of Mr. Hsu's decade-plus old warrant. "To help ensure agsint this type of situation in the future, our campaign will also institute vigorous additional vetting procedures on our bundlers, including criminal background checks," Wolfson added. "In any instances where a source of a bundler's income is in question, the campaign will take affirmative steps to verify its origin."

The dramatic return of all Hsu-raised donations was aimed at ending a controversy that awakened comparisons to Bill Clinton's 1990s fund-raising scandal and renewed scrutiny of others major fund-raisers and donors inside Sen. Clinton's presidential campaign. Sen. Clinton "simply didn't want to have to keep answering questions about a bundler whose background is now clearly in question," a senior adviser said, speaking only on condition of anonymity.
Posted by:Steve White

#14  Does anyone know what Sens. McCain or Feingold have to say about this? After all didn't they fix all this kind of thing?
Posted by: alanc   2007-09-11 19:50  

#13  Love the "Imelda Marcos" headline pun...

Don't laugh. Imelda's trial could have lasted for over 20 years. She asked the judge to 'walk a mile in her shoes'. [rimshot]
Posted by: Zenster   2007-09-11 17:59  

#12  260 people just hit the lottery thanks to Norm and Hill. Now the big questions are who gets the money when the refunds are undeliverable and will the IRS treat this as income?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2007-09-11 17:38  

#11  Love the "Imelda Marcos" headline pun...
Posted by: mojo   2007-09-11 17:35  

#10  And I want a copy of each report.

Don't hold your breath, Dr. White.

"Forget it, Jake. It's Clintontown."
Posted by: eLarson   2007-09-11 17:06  

#9  To those who complain about the extended election campaign season, note well it's better to have extra time to allow one's enemies opponents greater opportunity to show their true selves. And things like these have a tendency to repeat and compound over the long haul rather than be buried as a blip on the usual attention span.
Posted by: Procopius2k    2007-09-11 09:47  

#8  Likely they waited until they had $850K in replacement funds first.
Posted by: Pappy   2007-09-11 09:37  

#7  Same old same old sleaze.
Posted by: JohnQC   2007-09-11 09:03  

#6  Same old same old.
Posted by: JohnQC   2007-09-11 09:01  

#5  They do not care who was ripped off by Hsu and they would gladly accept the dirty money even knowing it was obtained criminally if it would not cause them any political headaches.

While you are absolutely right, I find it even more telling that Hillary avoids any and all mention of concerns over how this money may well have come directly from communist China.

Once again America is treated to the vile spectacle of anti-republican elements engaging in the most flexible sort of ethics as they pursue their agenda. Dan Rather thought nothing of his attempts to throw a presidential election with obviously faked "evidence". It can only be far more dismaying that someone so close to the throne as Hillary does not seem at all concerned that her campaign may have received financing from America's declared enemy.

I cannot tell you how grim it is to watch both of America's political parties betray the electorate on such a regular basis. It is only the republicans' marginally more open recognition of Islam's threat that prevents them from tieing with the democrats for delivering us into the hands of our enemies.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-09-11 04:01  

#4  You are right, Zenster. That quote really stands out.

The Clinton campaign has no shame whatsoever. They do not care who was ripped off by Hsu and they would gladly accept the dirty money even knowing it was obtained criminally if it would not cause them any political headaches.
Posted by: Whinesing Hatfield3082   2007-09-11 03:24  

#3  "simply didn't want to have to keep answering questions about a bundler whose background is now clearly in question,"

Note the total lack of concern about exactly where this money may have come from.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-09-11 00:56  

#2  They'll return it, only so it can be filtered back into the campaign by less traceable means.
Posted by: Iblis   2007-09-11 00:47  

#1  Oh, she must be a total joy to be around right about now...
Posted by: tu3031   2007-09-11 00:24  

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