“Red lights all over this one”
August 28th, 2007 at 8:29 am . by el nuko
Drivers Ed 101: Red means stop, Green means go. Yellow means caution. Basic stuff. Everybody knows.
The problems arise when some joker decides that those basic rules apply to everyone but him/herself.
Such is the case with the 2008 presumptive Democrat nominee, and it’s certainly not a new story: just the supporting characters change. You can look back to the late 60’s, when under the tutelage of Saul Alinsky, a young Wellesley student learned the many meanings of “the end justifies the means.”
“In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt.”
Whether it’s Buddhist monks who have taken vows of poverty, somehow mysteriously making sizable political donations, or Asian governments and special interests buying influence, or overnight stays in the White House being sold for campaign cash, the rules of campaign financing, much less the rules of decency, are consistently flaunted, skirted, circumvented, prostituted, and ignored. The Clinton modus operandi is unmistakable.
The most recent example is reported in today’s WSJ (h/t n2l).
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. He has hosted or co-hosted some of her most prominent money-raising events.
People who answered the phone and the door at the Paws’ residence declined requests for comment last week. In an email last night, one of the Paws’ sons, Winkle, said he had sometimes been asked by Mr. Hsu to make contributions, and sometimes he himself had asked family members to donate. But he added: “I have been fortunate in my investments and all of my contributions have been my money.” [snip]
Kent Cooper, a former disclosure official with the Federal Election Commission, said the two-year pattern of donations justifies a probe of possible violations of campaign-finance law, which forbid one person from reimbursing another to make contributions.
“There are red lights all over this one,” Mr. Cooper said.
Count this blog as one voice calling for a probe of possible violations of campaign-finance law, and sooner rather than later.
google map of the Paw Estate…
==================================================================================================
Trackposted to Right Pundits, Outside the Beltway, Blog @ MoreWhat.com, Perri Nelson’s Website, The Virtuous Republic, Committees of Correspondence, Rosemary’s Thoughts, The Random Yak, DeMediacratic Nation, Big Dog’s Weblog, Right Truth, Adam’s Blog, DragonLady’s World, Webloggin, The Bullwinkle Blog, Leaning Straight Up, Cao’s Blog, Conservative Cat, Conservative Thoughts, Pursuing Holiness, Faultline USA, Right Celebrity, Allie Is Wired, third world county, Wake Up America, The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns, Pirate’s Cove, Blue Star Chronicles, The Pink Flamingo, Republican National Convention Blog, High Desert Wanderer, and Right Voices, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.
Sphere: Related Content
Round-up of Michael Yon’s articles…
For those of you who do not who Michael Yon is, he is a citizen journalist who has been in Iraq and Afghanistan for most of the war with the only support coming from you and me. He is giving us the news that most ‘journalists’ are afraid to go fo ……
[…] Committees of Correspondence, The Random Yak, DeMediacratic Nation, Adam’s Blog, Nuke’s News & Views, Webloggin, Cao’s Blog, The Bullwinkle Blog, Conservative Cat, Conservative Thoughts, Allie […]
[…] Rosemary’s Thoughts, The Random Yak, DeMediacratic Nation, Adam’s Blog, Right Truth, Nuke’s News & Views, Leaning Straight Up, Cao’s Blog, Conservative Cat, Conservative Thoughts, Pursuing Holiness, […]
That sounds like a Buddhist koan, ol’ friend, or maybe a Jeopardy question. “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” “That would be the same sound as the MSM calling for an investigation into Hillary’s campaign donations, Alex.”
/It’s not just everybody that can get Buddhist koans and Alex Trebek into a comment about Hillary’s campaign funds, you know.
Yellow means caution? Here I always thought it meant go really fast before it turns red.
Campaign finance laws, what a joke. How about this
Unlimited contributions that MUST be fully disclosed to the public on a website.
Diversity is strength for new Iraqi Army; OTB…
?We?re here fighting a war, and when we go on patrol, it?s one fight. There have never been any sectarian issues,? said Hesser. ?Really, it?s almost like another Marine unit taking over, but it?s not about ?Marines? and ?Iraqis,? it?s about…
[…] Rosemary’s Thoughts, The Random Yak, DeMediacratic Nation, Adam’s Blog, Right Truth, Nuke’s News & Views, Webloggin, Leaning Straight Up, Cao’s Blog, Conservative Cat, Pursuing Holiness, […]
[…] Nuke’s News & Views » “Red lights all over this one” […]
It’s not just everybody that can get Buddhist koans and Alex Trebek into a comment about Hillary’s campaign funds, you know
I am impress
Nope, Swampie ain’t just nobody…fo’sho’.
Oh…and HRT© ain’t dooddley squat.
[…] Nation, Big Dog’s Weblog, Adam’s Blog, Right Truth, DragonLady’s World, Nuke’s News & Views, Webloggin, The Bullwinkle Blog, Leaning Straight Up, Cao’s Blog, Conservative Cat, Pursuing […]
I thought this was a significant, yet unnoticed story.
The anti-war crowd have never been able to understand this: war is always stupid, immoral, unjust, hateful, but once a country is engaged in one the national honor is also engaged, and the consequences of dishonor are incalculable.
I did too.(#14)
Hunh!
Back to the story that is the foundation for this thread, well…The Clinton campaign said today 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.
I’M ABOVE THE LAW!
/obscure southpark reference
I thought that was a Michael Vick quote.
Nope, a music executive on an episode of southpark.
Henh…Tammi sent me this link.
U.S. most armed country with 90 guns per 100 people.
All I can think to add is….USA!!! USA!!!
SwampMan was chanting “We’re number one! We’re number one!”.
My reaction was who the hell were the slackers? Heh. I bet the guns are actually undermeasured.
I was feeling the same way about the headline,
“Mississippi #1 in Obesity”
Hey, we don’t get to be #1 very often
Henh.
There are some big ol’mamma’s down in the delta.
I think most of the slackers are the effete folks in the major urban areas of this country…you know, where the liberals are.
But, they support the troops…don’t they?
I tell you what, I have NEVER seen such fat people as I saw up north.
Well, at least the foul-mouthed anti-war idiots saw the freedomswatch videos. MSNBC, CNBC Refuse to Carry Pro-War Ads They are too controversial.
/ZAH?
[…] Virtuous Republic, Rosemary’s Thoughts, The Random Yak, DeMediacratic Nation, Right Truth, Nuke’s News & Views, Webloggin, Leaning Straight Up, Cao’s Blog, The Amboy Times, Conservative Cat, Pursuing […]
[…] Rosemary’s Thoughts, The Random Yak, DeMediacratic Nation, Adam’s Blog, Right Truth, Nuke’s News & Views, Webloggin, Cao’s Blog, Leaning Straight Up, The Amboy Times, Conservative Cat, Pursuing […]
Which is worse, a ‘red light’ or a ‘flashing red light?’
You decide.
[…] Rosemary’s Thoughts, The Random Yak, DeMediacratic Nation, Adam’s Blog, Right Truth, Nuke’s News & Views, Webloggin, The Amboy Times, The Bullwinkle Blog, Cao’s Blog, Leaning Straight Up, […]
Wow. Just, wow.
[…] Website, The Virtuous Republic, Rosemary’s Thoughts, Adam’s Blog, Right Truth, Nuke’s News & Views, Webloggin, The Amboy Times, The Bullwinkle Blog, Cao’s Blog, Leaning Straight Up, […]
Good Lord almighty. Y’all just know what the reaction would be on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, et al. if a Republican presidential candidate received questionable funds from a felon on the run like this.
they are much more interested in an obscure Idaho senator who likes to get strokes from other men
h/t to n2l on the new thread. This is big, big, big.
But I thought the Dems embraced gayness.
It is big only if anybody knows about it.
We know!
/a beginning