I guess it�s time I update the blog. There has been so much going on, it is hard to decide where to start. Let's start at the top, or with the perceived top -- Broom Hillary. Let's do our best to keep her out of the top. It's American to do so.
Where have all the donors gone?
I don't know if you have been following this. I don't even know if you've even heard of it After all it has been kept pretty hush hush.
Ex-Fugitive's Fundraising Talent
Put
Him on Democrats' A-List; By Matthew Mosk
and John Solomon; Washington Post Staff
Writers; September 7, 2007
The coverage of this has been missing from a majority of mainstream media outlets. Even if it has been reported there has been no in-depth reporting.
Last week, before his world came
crashing down, Norman Hsu helped organize a
breakfast meeting in San Francisco
with prospective donors. The featured
attraction was Democratic National
Committee Chairman Howard Dean.
Is this the DNC's chairman's problem?
The meeting was hardly unusual
for
Hsu, a New York apparel manufacturer for
much of his career whose success at
raising money had propelled him into the
upper echelon of Democratic politics.
Just WHO is the upper echelon?
In the past four years, Hsu raised
more than $1.2 million for Democratic causes
and candidates, including the DNC and
the campaign of New York Gov. Eliot L.
Spitzer. And in the past six months, Hsu
became a leading fundraiser for Sen. Hillary
Rodham Clinton (N.Y.). A person familiar
with Clinton's fundraising, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity, said Hsu had
raised "in the hundreds of thousands of
dollars" since January for Clinton's
presidential bid.
There she is, the Broom Lady. She is front and center of this and, of course, the DNC as well.
But his association with Clinton
cast
an unwanted national spotlight on Hsu, leading
to the discovery last week that there was
an outstanding warrant for his arrest stemming
from a 15-year-old felony theft
conviction.
See any problem here? The donor is a felon, and a wanted felon at that. Should this guy been donating to Bush ,or any Republican for that matter, don't you think there would be a cry for resignations or impeachment or removal?
The Clinton campaign stood by
Hsu
until the Los Angeles Times reported his
outstanding arrest warrant. At that
point, the campaign reversed course,
announcing it would donate to charity
the $23,000 in direct contributions Hsu made
to Clinton's presidential campaign, her
Senate reelection bid and her political action
committee. The campaign does not plan
to return any money Hsu raised from other
donors.
Isn't that big of the broom-rider, sending that $23k of those direct contributions to charity. However there is no mention of the $290,000 of indirect contributions to her campaign. Shall we say it's business as usual for the Klintons. Remember Charlie Trie, Loreal Space, and Johnny Chung? They were big donors to Billie-bob. Not to mention the Bhudist monk donations to Algore's 2000 run. The list doesn't end there.
Do you think there will be any investigation here by congress or any oversight committee? Democrats taking over $1 million from a felon, a foreign felon at that? Don't count on it. You haven't even seen a follow up story on this yet.
Grant's Blog is an original
commentary by Grant Freerks. Copyright (c)2007
Grant Freerks.
