The AP wire moved a story as of last night that has me only slightly puzzled :
WASHINGTON -(AP) Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign said Monday it will return $850,000 in donations raised by Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu, who is under federal investigation for allegedly violating election laws.
Clinton, D-N.Y., previously had planned only to give to charity $23,000 she received from Hsu for her presidential and senatorial campaigns and to her political action committee, HillPac.
The FBI is investigating whether Hsu paid so-called straw donors to send campaign contributions to Clinton and other candidates, a law enforcement official said Monday.
Perhaps someone could be so good is to explain to me why it is that she hasn’t ALREADY done this? This does not strike me as someone wishing to play things on the up and up, but rather someone seeking to minimize the damage involved, including the financial damage.
By the way, should we mention the fact that nobody else amongst the democrats who swore they were returning to the Chinese money have actually done so yet including Hillary Clinton? See, here’s the thing, the active an honest person would be to return ALL the money, while saying very little about it. That’s an action that should have been taken before the echo from the first reports about Hsu died, not waiting over a month so as to assess the political damage involved.
In my opinion, it’s clear that the democrats have known about these illegal connections for some time. They have done nothing, save accept the money. If there was even a hint that the republicans were involved in such a scam, there would be one congressional investigation after another, and we’d be seeing wall to wall coverage of the mainstream media. And is, it makes democrats look bad, so nobody’s going to mention anything more about it than they have to. Certainly, nobody is going to be taking any action they don’t have to, such as actually returning the money.
The sad part is that the utterly useless Federal Elections Commission, will do absolutely nothing about this until after the election occurs. If then.
Tags: China, Corruption, Democrats
