More Clinton campaign stench

I’d actually hoped they’d learned their lessons in the 1996 campaign when Janet Reno let the Clintons and Gore slide on the Buddist Temple monks contributions to the Clinton/Gore campaign – but according to the Wall Street Journal’s Brody Mullins, they haven’t;

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.

People who answered the phone and the door at the Paws’ residence declined requests for comment last week. In an email last night, one of the Paws’ sons, Winkle, said he had sometimes been asked by Mr. Hsu to make contributions, and sometimes he himself had asked family members to donate. But he added: “I have been fortunate in my investments and all of my contributions have been my money.”

So $200,000 in Democrat compaign contributions came from this tiny little house in the last two years – and at least 6 adults live in that tiny little house;

Do we really want to hear for the next nine years about how terrible the vast right wing conspiracy is to the Clintons? Do we really want to hear how the Republican “juggernaut” forced the Clintons to turn to illegal activity in order to keep themselves in the White House – their own amusement park. Do we want more of the Riatis and the other asians who lined up outside the gates of the White House with sacks of cash to buy influence that eventually led to national security breaches?

Personally, I’m tired of the BS. 

Category: Politics