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Showing Original Post only (View all)The Washington Post: Inside the Clinton Donor Network [View all]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/clinton-money/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_daily202A Washington Post investigation reveals how Bill and Hillary Clinton have methodically cultivated donors over 40 years, from Little Rock to Washington and then across the globe. Their fundraising methods have created a new blueprint for politicians and their donors. Over four decades of public life, Bill and Hillary Clinton have built an unrivaled global network of donors while pioneering fundraising techniques that have transformed modern politics and paved the way for them to potentially become the first husband and wife to win the White House.
The grand total raised for all of their political campaigns and their familys charitable foundation reaches at least $3 billion, according to a Washington Post investigation. Their fundraising haul, which began with $178,000 that Bill Clinton raised for his long-shot 1974 congressional bid, is on track to expand substantially with Hillary Clintons 2016 White House run, which has already drawn $110 million in support.
The Post identified donations from roughly 336,000 individuals, corporations, unions and foreign governments in support of their political or philanthropic endeavors a list that includes top patrons such as Steven Spielberg and George Soros, as well as lesser-known backers who have given smaller amounts dozens of times. Not included in the count are an untold number of small donors whose names are not identified in campaign finance reports but together have given millions to the Clintons over the years. The majority of the money $2 billion has gone to the Clinton Foundation, one of the worlds fastest-growing charities, which supports health, education and economic development initiatives around the globe. A handful of elite givers have contributed more than $25 million to the foundation, including Canadian mining magnate Frank Giustra, who is among the wealthy foreign donors who have given tens of millions.
A FUNDRAISING POWERHOUSE
Roughly two-thirds of the money given by Clinton donors has gone to support their charitable foundation.
Separately, donors have given $1 billion to support the Clintons political races and legal defense fund, making capped contributions to their campaigns and writing six-figure checks to the Democratic National Committee and allied super PACs. The Post investigation found that many top Clinton patrons supported them in multiple ways, helping finance their political causes, their legal needs, their philanthropy and their personal bank accounts. In some cases, companies connected to their donors hired the Clintons as paid speakers, helping them collect more than $150 million on the lecture circuit in the past 15 years. The couples biggest individual political benefactors are Univision chairman Haim Saban and his wife, Cheryl, who have made 39 contributions totaling $2.4 million to support the Clintons races since 1992. The Sabans have also donated at least $10 million to the foundation...
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Isn't that why people give money to politicians, because they do not want the
LiberalArkie
Nov 2015
#6
But in this case, the "givers' view points included NAFTA, ending Glass-Stiegel and so forth.
Hoppy
Nov 2015
#10
Bill Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation is on Charity Navigator's Watchlist
notadmblnd
Nov 2015
#35
it happens a lot. you can post something at the "wrong" time and it sinks like a stone
magical thyme
Nov 2015
#28
These people don't know how to give to charity themselves, they must give to the Clintons to do it
EndElectoral
Nov 2015
#32
This "article" is a cheap attempt at misrepresenting donations to the Clinton foundation....
George II
Nov 2015
#34