U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) speaks during a campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa December 19, 2007. REUTERS/Keith Bedford (UNITED STATES)
Posted on 12/19/2007 9:26:39 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Over the last decade, former President Bill Clinton has raised more than $500 million for his foundation, allowing him to build a glass-and-steel presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., and burnish his image as an impresario of global philanthropy. The foundation has closely guarded the identities of its donors — including one who gave $31.3 million last year.
Now, the secrecy surrounding the William J. Clinton Foundation has become a campaign issue as Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton seeks the Democratic presidential nomination with her husband as a prime source of strategy and star power. Some of her rivals argue that donors could use presidential foundations to circumvent campaign finance laws intended to limit political influence.
Mr. Clinton himself echoed those concerns this fall when he pledged to make public future donors if Mrs. Clinton was elected president. While disclosure is not legally required, failure to do so, Mr. Clinton said, would raise “all these questions about whether people would try to win favor with her by giving money to me.”
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The New York Times has compiled the first comprehensive list of 97 donors who gave or pledged a total of $69 million for the Clinton presidential library in the final years of the Clinton administration. The examination found that while some $1 million contributors were longtime Clinton friends, others were seeking policy changes from the administration. Two pledged $1 million each while they or their companies were under investigation by the Justice Department.
Other donations came from supporters who had been ensnared in campaign finance scandals surrounding Mr. Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign.
In raising record sums for her campaign, Mrs. Clinton has tapped many of the foundation’s donors. At least two dozen have become “Hillraisers,” each bundling $100,000 or more for her presidential bid. ...
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Video grabs from a new political television advertisement promoting the candidacy of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) show her preparing holiday presents with political policy gift cards attached in the advertisement released on December 19, 2007. The advertisement, to be aired in the crucial early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, features cards on the gifts reading
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., greets supporters during a campaign stop, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2007, in Independence, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Mr. Clinton himself echoed those concerns this fall when he pledged to make public future donors if Mrs. Clinton was elected president. While disclosure is not legally required, failure to do so, Mr. Clinton said, would raise “all these questions about whether people would try to win favor with her by giving money to me.”
In other words -- give now and your name will remain secret and I’ll get you whatever goodies you want...
Awful, awful stench.
aren’t those crosses on the ceiling? Planted visual? I’m sure people will be just as outraged over this as the Mike H. ads . . .
No, they're "X"s. God's sign to not vote for this candidate.
PHOTOS Top, Evelyn Hockstein--NYT, middle, Jean-Philippe Defaut, NYT; bottom, Bill Cunningham/NYT
Frank Giustra, top, runs a group that gave $31 million to the Clinton Foundation; Sir Tom Hunter began donating $10 million a year in 2006; and Bernard L. Schwartz has pledged $1 million.
The Clinton Foundation is the world’s largest money laundering machine for the Clintoons.
The Clintoon Foundation probably makes the other left wing money laundering phoney non profits look like toy money laundering machines.
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Another story of interest...FR thread:
Get this, from the NY Slimes no less.
From The NY Slimes..(simply mind boggling)
December 20, 2007
In Charity and Politics, Clinton Donors Overlap
Mike, this can’t be correct.
We all know that the Clintons are the heroes and protectors of the poor, women, children, minorities and illegal aliens in America.
The Clintoons would never accept money from elite rich millionaires or billionaires.
This has to be Bush’s fault. He probably raised the money secretly and had his non profits donate the money to the Clintoon Foundation.
$acra$m is now off!:)
Is there any New York Times byline the campaign fears more than Don Van Natta? Well, there’s one today (although it probably goes down easier since the paper also front-pages the Obama “present” story today). “The New York Times has compiled the first comprehensive list of 97 donors who gave or pledged a total of $69 million for the Clinton presidential library in the final years of the Clinton administration. The examination found that while some $1 million contributors were longtime Clinton friends, others were seeking policy changes from the administration. Two pledged $1 million each while they or their companies were under investigation by the Justice Department.”
“Other donations came from supporters who had been ensnared in campaign finance scandals surrounding Mr. Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign. In raising record sums for her campaign, Mrs. Clinton has tapped many of the foundation’s donors. At least two dozen have become ‘Hillraisers,’ each bundling $100,000 or more for her presidential bid. The early library donors, combined with their families and political action committees, have contributed at least $784,000 to Mrs. Clinton’s Senate and presidential coffers.”
More: “As the scope of the foundation expanded from the Clinton library into issues like treating AIDS in the developing world and addressing global poverty and climate change, and Mrs. Clinton moved closer to announcing her candidacy, the pace of giving quickened. Last year, contributions reached $135 million, a 70 percent increase over the previous year. Two-thirds came from just 11 donors.”
Don’t cry for me… “Clinton twice wiped her eye at a campaign event in Elkader after getting an emotional introduction by Joe Ward, a constituent. She helped get his insurance company to cover a costly bone-marrow transplant for his son,” the New York Post writes. “No way,” though was the response from Howard Wolfson, Clinton’s spokesman on whether or not Clinton cried.
Here’s one of those campaign promises that would have gotten Al Gore in trouble in 2000. “Clinton predicted that when she mentions in her inaugural address, ‘particularly the oil-producing countries, “We’re not going to be taken for a ride any longer. We’re going to stand up and say enough,” ... when I say that, those countries will know because they follow our elections, they follow what we do in our politics as closely as we do, they’ll know that I always try to do what I say.’” Clinton predicted those words would cause the price of oil to suddenly drop, to $60 or $70 a barrel.
Thanks E. Definitely related. I guess the Klintoons didn’t anticipate that “payback’s a beeotch” also applies to themselves. :’)
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“Bring Troops Home” — because she was for it before she was against it. J F’n k Phase II.
What ever is happening is suddenly shaking up what promised to be boring non events. the so called Iowa caucus and NH primaries.
The mediots have made these two non events in two small states the equivalent of major hurricane, earthquake and out of control forest fire in the political world.
Hilliarily Evita Peron Clintoon is such a blatant opportunist.
The New York Times has compiled the first comprehensive list of 97 donors who gave or pledged a total of $69 million for the Clinton presidential library in the final years of the Clinton administration. The examination found that while some $1 million contributors were longtime Clinton friends, others were seeking policy changes from the administration. Two pledged $1 million each while they or their companies were under investigation by the Justice Department.
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