Bill Clinton funds at issue

Miami Herald ^ | 5/9/08 | GREG GORDON

[Dawnsblood]

Hillary Clinton's decision to lend her presidential campaign $6.4 million from assets she holds jointly with her husband is rekindling questions about millions of dollars that Bill Clinton has been paid for speeches and other work since he left the White House.

In tapping some of that cash, ''the Clintons have effectively bypassed campaign finance reform in a manner that's ingenious -- using Bill Clinton effectively as a front for the fundraising,'' said Lawrence Jacobs, a University of Minnesota political science professor.

Beginning days after he left the White House in 2001, the ex-president has been crisscrossing the globe, speaking about 250 times on tours that brought him more than $40 million in six years.

The sponsors have included investment banks that later suffered billions of dollars in losses in the subprime mortgage debacle and now have a big stake in any regulatory changes; an insurance group with an interest in any overhaul of the nation's healthcare system; a group that favors the reunification of Taiwan with mainland China; a Colombian business development group that backs a free-trade agreement; and more than two dozen Jewish groups, synagogues and museums.

[upchuck]

There have been several articles (here are two:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995016/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975195/posts) here about Hillary and her thugs stiffing businesses on the campaign trail. From way back in Iowa to the present.

Laundering Bill’s income like this is just one more sleazy, scumbag rip off these two have foisted on us.

Enough is enough.

[Chode]

OHhhh WOe is me...
why's everybody always pickin on ME???

[SERKIT]

How much does Hillary pay Bill for speaking at her rallies?