Names From ’90s Scandal Among Clinton ‘Bundlers’

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From http://sweetness-light.com/archive/wp-finds-former-shady-donors-on-hillarys-list

Past Clouds Candidates’ Donor Lists
Names From ’90s Scandal Among Clinton ‘Bundlers’

By John Solomon and Matthew Mosk
Thursday, September 20, 2007; A01

A list of the donors who have “bundled” large sums from dozens of individuals to give to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign includes several figures who were involved in the 1990s Democratic Party fundraising scandal that tarnished her husband’s record.

Among them is an Oklahoma oilman who testified in the mid-1990s that the firm he worked for, owned by Democratic fundraisers, sought to curry favor with Bill Clinton’s administration by providing payments and a golf club membership to a Cabinet secretary’s son…

Clinton includes on her list of “Hillraisers” — those who have committed to raising more than $100,000 for her White House bid — several financiers linked to past troubles. They include Marvin Rosen, the former Democratic National Committee finance chairman whose efforts to reward six-figure party donors with attendance at White House coffees and overnight stays in the Lincoln Bedroom became the focal point of Senate hearings into fundraising abuses…

William Stuart Price, the Oklahoma oilman also on the “Hillraiser” list, stunned a courtroom in 1995 when he detailed how his former gas company had tried to “gain influence” with the Clinton administration by providing $160,000 in money and membership in a ritzy Washington golf club to the son of a Cabinet secretary…

Price’s testimony became the focal point of a criminal investigation of Ron Brown, then commerce secretary and a former chairman of the Democratic Party. The inquiry ended with the conviction of Price’s former bosses, Nora and Gene Lum, for making illegal donations.

Also on the list is former senator Robert G. Torricelli (D-N.J.), who withdrew from a 2002 reelection campaign after being “severely admonished” by the Senate for taking lavish gifts from a businessman and contributor, David Chang…

“It seems like deja vu,” said Michael Madigan, a Republican lawyer who helped lead an extensive investigation into the Clinton administration’s 1996 fundraising practices by then-Sen. Fred D. Thompson (R-Tenn.). “It sounds like a carbon copy of the last Clinton campaign.” …

“The most important thing I learned about this issue is that all campaigns have the same problem, regardless of party or candidate: How do you know who has skeletons and who does not?” said Lanny Davis, who as special counsel to Bill Clinton handled campaign finance issues for him from 1996 to 1998. “Let’s face it: Campaign organizations are not ‘CSI’ — not even close — even if they’d like to be.” …

Well, if the moral ethicist (and Pakistan lobbyist) Lanny Davis says it’s okay, then it must be okay.



Oopsie, the Hillbots' glass house just went boom.

[BlueManDude]

1. I don't support HRC but most of the Clinton "scandals" in the 90s were made up horseshit.

Maybe you're too young to remember it.

[Cheap_Trick]

2. nice try, junior

since I'm 41 I remember it well. The names on the list are her donors, nothing made up about it. And the things those people did are also facts, nothing made up. You want made up horseshit, why don't you go dodge sniper fire with Hilla(R)y in Bosnia and let the grown-ups talk now.

[BlueManDude]

3. That's a great article with the nice smear from a GOP lawyer.

If you get you jollies re-hashing GOP-inspired Clinton "psuedo-scandals" from the 90s then I doubt you're really a Democrat.

Being for Obama is one thing (as I am) but using GOP talking points to smear HRC is quite another.