Hillary Should Return The Dirty Money
August 29th, 2007 at 9:47 am . by el nuko
Yesterday, from Howard Wolfson, HRC spokesman: “Norman Hsu is a longtime and generous supporter of the Democratic Party and its candidates, including Sen. Clinton.” … “During Mr. Hsu’s many years of active participation in the political process, there has been no question about his integrity or his commitment to playing by the rules, and we have absolutely no reason to call his contributions into question or to return them.”
Today, from the LA Times
For the last 15 years, California authorities have been trying to figure out what happened to a businessman named Norman Hsu, who pleaded no contest to grand theft, agreed to serve up to three years in prison and then seemed to vanish.
“He is a fugitive,” Ronald Smetana, who handled the case for the state attorney general, said in an interview. “Do you know where he is?”
Since 2004, one Norman Hsu has been carving out a prominent place of honor among Democratic fundraisers. He has funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions into party coffers, much of it earmarked for presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.
In addition to making his own contributions, Hsu has honed the practice of assembling packets of checks from contributors who bear little resemblance to the usual Democratic deep pockets: A self-described apparel executive with a variety of business interests, Hsu has focused on delivering hefty contributions from citizens who live modest lives and are neophytes in the world of campaign giving.
Hillary Clinton should return this dirty money immediately, and provide full accountability for contributions received from the Hsu network. Her campaign should act immediately to preserve all campaign donation records, and campaign email databases. The emails should be made public. If Hillary ever hopes to escape the charges corruption which have hounded her for years, she should not try to explain this away as “just another attack from the VRWC.”
This is exactly the type of situation which lends credibility to the plaintiff in the upcoming Paul v. Clinton case.
(h/t n2l)
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Jackie Mason on Hillary. Heh. He says if she took as many positions in the White House as she’s taken on the war, that whole marriage would be okay.
/hat tip to bweep at GCP, who has recently become one of the banned of brothers.
bweep? dang.
Whahappened?
One of these days, I need to go over AtS, and see if I was banned.
As for Stormin’ Norman Hsu(ryhmes with Sue), personally I think he is just another shill for the ChiComm’s, following in the tradition of Charley Tree, and the impoverished Buddhist monks. That he has many business interests is a very generous way of saying his income is difficult to document, and is a nebulous character.
I call to question the lack of zeal in which the state of California has pursued this fugitive from justice.
Democrats Give Away Fundraiser’s Cash.
I’ll believe it when I see the cancelled checks. Until then, it’s just feel-good talk
Bweep does not know.
I don’t know why you wouldn’t take Al Franken’s word for it, he’s a totally serious candidate.
I expect he’d be as horrid a candidate as he was a “comedian”.
Oh, you gotta see this SMACKDOWN of Big Al Franken. Priceless.
Henh…Frankenteamsters.