;0)
Posted on 08/27/2007 11:43:40 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
DALY CITY, Calif. -- One of the biggest sources of political donations to Hillary Rodham Clinton is a tiny, lime-green bungalow that lies under the flight path from San Francisco International Airport.
Six members of the Paw family, each listing the house at 41 Shelbourne Ave. as their residence, have donated a combined $45,000 to the Democratic senator from New York since 2005, for her presidential campaign, her Senate re-election last year and her political action committee. In all, the six Paws have donated a total of $200,000 to Democratic candidates since 2005, election records show.
That total ranks the house with residences in Greenwich, Conn., and Manhattan's Upper East Side among the top addresses to donate to the Democratic presidential front-runner over the past two years, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal of donations listed with the Federal Election Commission.
It isn't obvious how the Paw family is able to afford such political largess. Records show they own a gift shop and live in a 1,280-square-foot house that they recently refinanced for $270,000. William Paw, the 64-year-old head of the household, is a mail carrier with the U.S. Postal Service who earns about $49,000 a year, according to a union representative. Alice Paw, also 64, is a homemaker. The couple's grown children have jobs ranging from account manager at a software company to "attendance liaison" at a local public high school. One is listed on campaign records as an executive at a mutual fund.
The Paws' political donations closely track donations made by Norman Hsu, a wealthy New York businessman in the apparel industry who once listed the Paw home as his address, according to public records. Mr. Hsu is one of the top fund-raisers for Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Okay, $293k in 1993. California real estate doesn’t get reassessed at market value every year as in some locales. It can be reassessed higher but the increase is capped by Proposition 13 at 2% a year.
The market value of that house has easily quintupled since 1993. Well, it may be down 20% this summer, but it’s an easy bet this property will in the high, high six figures today.
I agree that it would be likely in the high six figures. I put up that document to show when the current owners acquired it. When did Hsu claim he lived there?
I have an account but her LinkedIn data isn’t much more help:
Alice Paw
Acct Mgr at UBOC
San Francisco Bay Area
Add Alice to your network
Current Acct Mgr at UBOC
Connections 1 connection
Industry Banking
Public Profile http://www.linkedin.com/pub/1/824/34b
Alice Paw is not currently open to receiving Introductions or InMail™.
Does anyone know how to check DBAs with the State of New York? Arizona does theirs online to ensure you don’t use another company’s fictitious name.
;0)
If they had the house reassessed to borrow against it, wouldn’t the increased value also increase their property taxes? Just askin’, I don’t know how the law works here.
Does anyone know how to find the original post on this? Freepers had stuff dug up within five minutes that I don’t see on this thread. Thread had different title.
Yes! Thank you. There was a long list of donations that reveal a lot of illegal contributions going on with the dems.
The house is not reassessed in Cali based on a refi. The tax is based on the purchase price plus a max of ~2% increased value per year.
It's "Agent Hsu".
I looked on Zillow.com. they could not find “41 Shelbourne Ave” but there was a 47 and a 33 Shelbourne. Each was estimated to be valued in the low $700s. In April of 2007 27 Shelbourne sold for $660k
Interesting... I went back to Zillow.com and looked closer at the map. There is a blank space where 41 Shelbourne would be. The satellite picture shows the green house that is listed in the news story. No doubt about it. I wonder if Zillow delisted that house because so many people are looking the address up because of this story.
| The Paw Donations (sourced at newsmeat.com) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | Total | ||||||||||||
| Dimiple | $4,000 | $10,200 | $14,200 | |||||||||||||
| Vivian | $2,000 | $19,500 | $21,500 | |||||||||||||
| Marina | $5,400 | $11,600 | $16,000 | $33,000 | ||||||||||||
| Alice | $250 | $4,000 | $4,600 | $8,850 | ||||||||||||
| Winkle | $5,000 | $49,500 | $54,500 | |||||||||||||
| William | $1,000 | $5,200 | $5,600 | $11,800 | ||||||||||||
| Year Total | $250 | $6,400 | $31,800 | $105,400 | $143,850 | |||||||||||
| This data is short by 56K+ from what the WSJ is reporting.(200K) | ||||||||||||||||
Oct 12, 1998 The Far Eastern Economic Review reports that a report to be released by the U.S. House Committee investigating illegal donations to the Democratic Party during the 1995-1996 election campaign identifies Ted Sioeng, a key figure in the scandal, as a Chinese agent in a bid to influence the American elections. Sioeng, who donated $400,000 through his family and business partners to the Democratic National Committee, held several private meetings with Chinese President Jiang Zemin between 1993 and 1995.
The Clinton campaign said today (08/28/2007) that it saw no reason to return donations from two major campaign contributors whose donations, according to the Wall Street Journal, closely track one another.Source.The Journal reported that a total of $200,000 in donations to Democratic committees and candidates from the Paw family of Daley City, Calif., and those of Norman Hsu, a wealthy New York businessmen who is a major Democratic donor and Clinton fund-raiser, had sometimes taken place about the same time.
The article also said the Paw family lived in a modest house and raised questions about their ability to make such large donations.
But Lawrence Barcello, an attorney for Mr. Hsu, denied any suggestions that the Paw family donations had indeed come from Mr. Hsu rather than the Paws.
Mr. Barcello said that the Paws and Mr. Hsu have known each other for at least a decade, after Mr. Hsu began to shop at a store in a Burlingame, Calif., hotel run by Alice Paw, the family matriarch. The attorney said that, despite the family’s modest house, they have the financial wherewithal to make large contributions. Mr. Hsu had also become close to one of the Paws’ sons, Winkle, and the two have done business deals together, according to Mr. Barcello.
I wonder if this involves Postal-Union money laundering, or Chi-com money, or both.
Marxism marches on. If you’re an advocate of competition or a small businessperson, you’re 100% doomed if h is elected President.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.