Posted on 03/16/2011 11:01:58 AM PDT by Justaham
Rep. Corrine Brown, Florida Democrat, has almost no money in her campaign war chest.
Now it turns out she owes money too, according to a lawsuit filed by a major Democratic fundraising firm to force Brown to pay $44,495 in unpaid bills.
Berger Hirschberg Strategies — a big player in Democratic money circles that has done fundraising for several presidential campaigns — filed suit Jan. 10 in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to force Brown and her chief of staff, Ronnie Simmons, to pay up.
Brown stopped paying the firm, which raised over half a million dollars for her campaign, in July, but didn’t effectively terminate the contract until the end of September.
Mysteriously, Brown claimed in reports to the Federal Election Comission (FEC) she did pay the firm $15,000 in July – even while admitting in court filings her campaign didn’t pay Berger Hirschberg that month.
“That’s the interesting question,” said Marty Lobel, Berger Hirschberg’s lawyer, “where did all the money go?”
A story Monday in the Florida Times-Union highlighted that Brown has almost no campaign cash. According to the article, Brown’s political war chest puts her in the lowest three percent of House lawmakers, and that includes freshman Reps. who are political neophytes.
The Times-Union article quoted Daniel Smith, director of the University of Florida’s Political Campaigning Program saying, “It’s shocking. It’s shockingly low.”
In spite of Brown’s financial woes, she hired a high-priced lawyer to defend her from the Berger Hirshberg lawsuit. One legal source said, Fred Cooke, Brown’s lawyer, is one of the best connected African American lawyers in town, and “doesn’t come cheap.”
Neither Cooke nor Brown were available for comment.
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Democrat politicians do not pay for anything. That goes double for Democrat politicians "of color." And anyone who complains about it can expect all kinds of "nice treatment" in return.
Has Hilary every paid her campaign debts from ‘08? Why anyone would do any work for a Democrat without being paid first is a mystery.
Check her freezer!
Presenting a democrat with a bill?
Yeah, right.
Why can’t she just get some from Obama’s Stash?
Or from George Soros?
Or from the Union Thugs?
Or from the illegal immigrants?
Or from the environmentalist whackos?
Or from the SEIU?
Or from the NEA?
Or from the New ACORN?
Or form Planned Parenthoods?
Or from ....................
Expecting a black democrat to pay their bills? Why not expect blood from a turnip? The latter will happen first.
Democrats are scum, and black democrats are even worse.
What cracked me up about the Clinton’s legal bills (from the impeachment, whitewater, etc.) was that the funds were nothing more than payments to their attorney friends. Heck, her campaign debts may be the same thing!
They created the problem, exacerbated the situation, picked their own attorneys, asked for money from their faithful, and then turned the problems into wealth. Maybe that was their plan all along.
Trust me, they always pay the lawyer.
“Has Hilary every paid her campaign debts from ‘08?”
NO! They would have made a big story of her paying, had she paid. Since no story, no payment!
That has the ring of truth.
Go Gator!
Anybody check her freezer?
My apologies for the non-ebonics spelling of gata.
Sheeeeat! Tha wuz funne.
I made it through the first 60 seconds before I got too embarrassed.
That is a classic from way back. Boortz plays that on Atlanta stations all the time.
Truly cringeworthy. Made me think thoughts I didn't like thinking.
I don’t believe that people involved in political fundraising or campaigns should have a legal right to sue for anything. The only reason they get involved is the hope that they can get on the ground floor of some looting scheme from the public treasury. F*** ‘em.
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