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The Clinton's sleaziest donors

by highgrade, Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 10:09:45 PM EST

The New Republic printed a great run through of some of Bill and Hillary's greatest hits in campaign finance. Now, imagine we're in the middle of the election and across the stage we have Mr. McCain-Feingold go on and on about how campaign finance reform is so near and dear to his heart. In fact he helped write what has become the most important word in that field in our generation! Even better, he gets to talk to all of the moderates/independents that this shows his political courage because it's one of the issues that the right wingers absolutely HATE him for supporting. And what does nominee Hillary have to say? Probably just shed a tear or have a coughing fit. Whatever it is, McCain's talking points will probably be taken from this article.

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?i d=076fd56f-4aca-4683-a9d1-3c55d748946e&a mp;k=60222

Tags: hillary, clinton, obama, 2008, campaign finance reform, scandals, mccain (all tags)

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Re: The Clinton's sleaziest donors (none / 0)

Wow that's quiet a list there. A lot of skeletons for the Republicans

"Apparently they have an 11-month calendar over there that's missing the month of February," Obama strategist David Axelrod

by Jr1886 on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 10:16:03 PM EST

Johnny Chung (none / 0)

THE GREEN
He gave $366,000 in personal and corporate donations between 1994 and 1996. All the money was returned by the DNC.

THE SCANDAL
Chung's contributions to the Democratic Party earned him significant access to the Clinton administration: He made at least 49 visits to the White House between 1994 and 1996. He arranged for five of his Chinese business clients to attend a taping of one of President Clinton's weekly radio addresses after making a $50,000 donation to the DNC. Furthermore, Chung claimed that part of his donated funds came from sources connected to the Chinese government. (The Chinese government emphatically denies the allegations.)

THE SLEAZE FACTOR
7. Ick! One radioactively slimy Chung quote: "The White House is like a subway: You have to put in coins to open gates."

THE DAMAGE TO THE CLINTONS
7. Chung was one of the most recognizable--and damning-- figures in the campaign finance controversy; 49 White House visits will have that effect.

by highgrade on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 10:19:54 PM EST

Any Arabs or Mobsters like Obama's donors? (none / 0)

by dpANDREWS on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 11:04:10 PM EST

Re: Any Arabs or Mobsters like Obama's donors? (none / 0)

Any Arabs...

Cute.

But yeah, I have no idea why anyone would accuse Camp Clinton of race-baiting... it's beyond me. I mean all her supporters sound so enlightened.

by zonk on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 11:35:15 PM EST
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Re: Any Arabs or Mobsters like Obama's donors? (none / 0)

I take it the race baiting in the article is invisible to you. Kinda like Clinton's support is invisible to you. Remember your big talk about Clinton 527s? Guess what, with this article Obama opens the door to a full on 'independent' exposé.

Marin Cogan

by souvarine on Fri Feb 08, 2008 at 12:04:31 AM EST
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Re: Any Arabs or Mobsters like Obama's donors? (2.00 / 1)

Jesus Christ, you have the balls to make this comment in a diary about Bill Clinton's "Chinese fundraising" scandals?

"Another problem we have...is that in election years we behave somewhat as primitive peoples do at the time of the full moon." --Harry Truman

by Steve M on Fri Feb 08, 2008 at 12:08:43 AM EST
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Re: Any Arabs or Mobsters like Obama's donors? (none / 0)

this isn't just about their chinese donors, this is about all of them.

dpandrews statement was clearly racist.
his whole point was clearly "obama gets money from arabs, this is in and of itself bad"

by Soltare on Fri Feb 08, 2008 at 04:32:13 AM EST
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Don't you (none / 0)

have a big diary on COH to get totally wrong?

I haven't said one word about the ethnicity, race, religion, etc of Clinton's donors.

But being in a relationship with "an Arab" -- I take a degree of offense to a poster furling something like "Arabs and mobsters" like a monkey flings his shit.

Does the poster have to say sandn***ers until you get what I'm saying?

Jackass.

by zonk on Fri Feb 08, 2008 at 09:05:14 AM EST
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Re: The Clinton's sleaziest donors (none / 0)

If John McCain wants to talk history, I look forward to reminding people about the Keating Five.

"Another problem we have...is that in election years we behave somewhat as primitive peoples do at the time of the full moon." --Harry Truman

by Steve M on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 11:08:51 PM EST

What does Obama say when (none / 0)

McCain asks him why he needed help from Rezko to buy a house?

by ocli on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 11:09:47 PM EST

Re: What does Obama say when (none / 0)

He says that he didn't.

by illlaw1 on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 11:46:14 PM EST
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Re: What does Obama say when (none / 0)

What. Rezko give him some cash or something?

by illlaw1 on Fri Feb 08, 2008 at 12:01:53 AM EST
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Re: The Clinton's sleaziest donors (none / 0)

Some of the direct, not the bundled.

by souvarine on Fri Feb 08, 2008 at 12:37:31 AM EST

Aaron Tonken (none / 0)

THE DONOR
Aaron Tonken, former Hollywood fund-raiser, current federal penitentiary inmate in California.

THE GREEN
In 2000 he hosted a fund-raiser that took in more than $1 million for Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign.

THE SCANDAL
Tonken originally drew interest from the FBI for failing to report some donations from the event to the FEC. Although he was never charged for election-law violations, in 2003 he pleaded guilty to stealing from charities, including, according to an ABC News report, the Betty Ford clinic. He is currently serving a five-year sentence for mail and wire fraud.

THE SLEAZE FACTOR
9. The self-described con man got his start in Hollywood as Zsa Zsa Gabor's dog keeper. He sold stories about her to tabloids and snuck tourists into her dilapidated, dog feces-ridden mansion while she was out of town. In his memoir, King of Cons, Tonken wrote, "In a land of moral imbeciles, I knew I could be king."

THE DAMAGE TO THE CLINTONS
4. A fund-raising committee for Hillary Clinton's 2000 campaign had to pay $35,000 in fines to the FEC for underreporting the costs of the gala, even though a federal inquiry failed to find any culpability on the Clintons' part. The financial burden to the Clinton campaign was insignificant--the real harm done was in the image of guilt by association.

by highgrade on Fri Feb 08, 2008 at 07:58:31 AM EST

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