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Someone needs to teach a Hilldawg new tricks

This stuff is getting old.  Who will be the next Hsu to drop?  From the LA Times:

Something remarkable happened at 44 Henry St., a grimy Chinatown tenement with peeling walls. It also happened nearby at a dimly lighted apartment building with trash bins clustered by the front door.

And again not too far away, at 88 E. Broadway beneath the Manhattan bridge, where vendors chatter in Mandarin and Fujianese as they hawk rubber sandals and bargain-basement clothes.

All three locations, along with scores of others scattered throughout some of the poorest Chinese neighborhoods in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx, have been swept by an extraordinary impulse to shower money on one particular presidential candidate — Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Dishwashers, waiters and others whose jobs and dilapidated home addresses seem to make them unpromising targets for political fundraisers are pouring $1,000 and $2,000 contributions into Clinton’s campaign treasury. In April, a single fundraiser in an area long known for its gritty urban poverty yielded a whopping $380,000. When Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) ran for president in 2004, he received $24,000 from Chinatown.
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As with other campaigns looking for dollars in unpromising places, the Clinton operation also has accepted what it later conceded were improper donations (Funny how that seems to happen all the time! – Ed.). At least one reported donor denies making a contribution. Another admitted to lacking the legal-resident status required for giving campaign money. (Well, that would certainly help explain her affinity for illegal aliens! – Ed.)
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The Times examined the cases of more than 150 donors who provided checks to Clinton after fundraising events geared to the Chinese community. One-third of those donors could not be found using property, telephone or business records. Most have not registered to vote, according to public records.

And several dozen were described in financial reports as holding jobs — including dishwasher, server or chef — that would normally make it difficult to donate amounts ranging from $500 to the legal maximum of $2,300 per election.

Her Highness sure has a knack of finding poor Chinese folks who somehow give tons of jack to her quest for power, doesn’t she?

October 19, 2007 - Posted by crushliberalism | corruption, Hillary