Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Hillary Clinton: Candidate of Change -- Part 274

Do voters want more of the same in 2008? If so, perhaps a repeat of some of the great moments of Bill Clinton's administration is in order. You know, maybe something like a fundraising scandal:

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...

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...

The Paw family is just one set of donors whose political donations are similar to Mr. Hsu's. Several business associates of Mr. Hsu in New York have made donations to the same candidates, on the same dates for similar amounts as Mr. Hsu.

On four separate dates this year, the Paw family, Mr. Hsu and five of his associates gave Mrs. Clinton a total of $47,500. In all, the family, Mr. Hsu and his associates have given Mrs. Clinton $133,000 since 2005 and a total of nearly $720,000 to all Democratic candidates.

The Paw's Daly City home is a one-story house in a working-class suburb of San Francisco. On a recent day, a coiled garden hose rested next to a dilapidated garden with a half-dozen dried out plants. The din of traffic from a nearby freeway was occasionally drowned out by jumbo jets departing San Francisco International Airport...

No one in the Paw family had ever given a campaign contribution before the 2004 presidential election, according to campaign-finance reports. Then, in July 2004, five members of the family contributed a total of $3,600 to the presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat. Five of the checks were dated July 27, 2004. About the same time, Mr. Hsu made his first donations to a political candidate, contributing the maximum amount allowed by law to Mr. Kerry in two separate checks, on July 21, 2004, and on Aug. 6.

From then on, the correlation of campaign donations between Mr. Hsu and the Paw family has continued. The first donations to Mrs. Clinton came Dec. 23, 2004, when Mr. Hsu and one Paw family member donated the then-maximum $4,000 to her Senate campaign in two $2,000 checks, campaign-finance records show. In March 2005, the individuals gave a total of $17,500 to Mrs. Clinton.

It strains credulity to think that all the members of an immigrant family of modest means suddenly became politically active in 2004, and have proceeded to give the majority of their disposal income to Democratic candidates -- coordinating their giving with a wealthy Clinton donor with whom they have some association.

The American people have elected Clintons or Bushes to the White House for 20 years. Hillary wants them to extend the lease by another 4 or 8. When voters begin to focus on the choice between more of the same, or a fresh start, her campaign will suffer.

John Edwards has decided to try to take Hillary on directly to break her stride. Look for his supporters to latch onto this story like a dog with a bone.

Note: Check out Don Surber or Fausta.

Also note the mistake from the Left -- the response at TPM Cafe is to try to refight the Swift Boat battle:

The name that does not appear anywhere in this story is that of the Texas Millionaire Richard Collins. You know the guy who funded the "swifties" and is backing the "stop her now campaign".

But it's legal for Collins to donate to a Republican campaign. If Hsu and the Paws are doing what it seems they are, that's illegal. The voters will note the difference.

2 comments:

dave in boca said...

When the Clintons aren't sucking scum from the top of the pond [or getting sucked under the Oval Office desk], they are bottom-feeding the likes of the Hsus. I'm waiting for the MSM deluge of "racism" and "Murdoch hit-job' to surface as it always does from the Soros-cide end of the blog spectrum.

Anonymous said...

What else do you expect from the "Dogpatchers"?! The incidence of "Democrats were accused of/convicted of", "election fraud", and "campaign fundraising irregularities" appearing in the same sentence can be counted on to increase exponentially whenever the Clintons are involved. I can't imagine Hillary in the White House- could a coup d'etat be far behind? /S/Green Mtn Punter