[Enchante]

"...to ask everybody who has a cousin in Iowa, South Carolina and Nevada to call them and ask them to vote for her,” said Brian O’Dwyer, who jetted over the pond for the event."

Bill Clinton goes abroad and urges foreign citizens to lobby US voters to vote for Shrillery! Hey, I like the Irish as much as anyone (and am 1/4 Irish!), but WTH is a US politician doing, going to a foreign country to urge them to influence a US election??? It's certainly illegal to solicit financial political donations from non-citizens -- I wonder if the cost of trans-Atlantic phone calls could be construed as any "in-kind" donations?? And how does the FEC regard soliciting the time and energies of people who cannot legally participate in US politics on behalf of a US candidate???

Whether or not this is illegal (can someone check), this certainly could be turned against Shrillery in a hard-hitting TV ad...... "Bill Clinton went overseas to solicit support for Shrillery's campaign efforts" etc.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

*FYI - Ping*

[Enchante]

THe attendees were supposed to be US citizens, according to the article, but it would be worthwhile to find out (1) whether this requirements was really strictly observed, and (2) whether or not any press were present, whether his appeal was in any way publicized in Ireland, etc.

[Enchante]

"urges foreign citizens to lobby US voters"

Correction, I meant to note that the claim is that the fundraiser included only US citizens, but as with anything related to the CLintonistas I would not trust these SOBs as far as I could throw them, so it all deserves to be checked out thoroughly.

[Iron Munro]

"Bill Clinton goes abroad and urges foreign citizens to lobby US voters to vote for Shrillery!"

I read it as urging foreigners to intervene in a US election with the intent to influence the outcome.

Even for a life form as low as a Clinton that is a crime in deed if not in law.