Hillary Clinton Lands Earmarks For Campaign Contributions

LA Times   |  Tom Hamburger and Dan Morain   |   December 10, 2007 08:55 AM


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It's a real estate developer's sugar-plum dream: a mega-shopping mall complete with 10 Broadway-style theaters, an indoor river, a Tuscan village and a 39-story luxury hotel sheathed in green solar panels shaped like giant blades of grass. Plus as much as $1 billion in government-backed financing, thanks in part to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton....

...Since taking office in 2001, Clinton has delivered $500 million worth of earmarks that have specifically benefited 59 corporations. About 64% of those corporations provided funds to her campaigns through donations made by employees, executives, board members or lobbyists, a review by the Los Angeles Times shows.

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wash dc is a den of theives for the rich.

clean house they are beyond help.

time for a third party.

or lets put hillary in then jeb then chelsea then the twins then

whoops could it be the american voter that is to blame for this moral decline.

capitalism leads to greed and greed leads to the decline of a nation.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:17 AM on 12/11/2007
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Hillary has a habit of not being truthfull
http://nationaljournal.com/taylor.htm

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:57 AM on 12/11/2007

Yeah, well when the bottom finally falls out
of the rusty barrel of the mortgage market,
she'll be on the most-wanted list or whatever...
They just had another bank write off 10
billion...and B of A...how much MORE systematic
larceny is wrapped up in this whole thing?
Is a career in real estate right for you? LOL

Who was that guy, Don Lapree or something?
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:48 PM on 12/10/2007

I live in NYS and want Hillary elected president. We have not had a president since FDR and I think it is about our time. We have had presidents from California, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Massachusetts and Georgia. I live in a part of NY that could use a little help and a president can deliver.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:46 PM on 12/10/2007

I just wanted to make sure no one missed this paragraph in the LA Times article;

"Clinton supported basic reforms, but she and other Democratic senators running for president balked at a proposal by Obama that would have required members to disclose their proposed earmark requests, not just those that were enacted into law."

Another instance of Obama's integrity vs. Clinton's (lack of) integrity.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:15 PM on 12/10/2007

This story isn't going away any time soon - as you can see at digg:

http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Hillary_Clinton_500_000_000_in_porkbarrel_money_to_donors

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:17 PM on 12/10/2007

This lady will do anything to become President!Even place lives at risk by sending out lies that could make a crazy do what was done by that man at her campain headquaters!And to the worker who quit her campain over this!1 million cheers for you Ms or Mr.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:51 PM on 12/10/2007
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Is anyone really surprised at this latest revelation about Hillary's less than scrupulous methods of raising cash? She and Bill never owned a home until they lined their pockets with their stay at 1600 Penn. Ave. and sought to purchase a place for Hillary's Senate run. The Clintons were given a big chunk of change by political "friends" to purchase that house even though Hillary and Bill had made bundles from book deals. Hillary is no different than the worst pork-barrel Republican that slithered down the halls of the Senate. She has lined her pockets any and every which way she could. The Clintons didn't have a pot to piss in when they came to D.C. now they are multi, multi millionaires. Hillary is one candidate that believes public service means being able to hold up every taxpayer for anything she can fleece from them. The French knew how to handle an Austrian upstart nearly 200 years ago. Too bad that Americans don't follow their example.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:43 PM on 12/10/2007

Hillary, represents NYS. Why wouldn't she try to get as much for her citizens as she can?

What is crap for one state may be a treasure for another.

Apparently, she's been a successful senator and us New Yorkers appreciate it!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:09 PM on 12/10/2007

I've been blogging about Hillary and her earmarks for months. Yet another reason why she couldn't win the general (moderate Republicans wouldn't vote for her), and Barack Obama could. He's called for ethics reforms in Washington DC, something Hillary has resisted.

http://www.barackoblogger.com/2007/12/hillarys-big-appetite-for-pork.html

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:52 PM on 12/10/2007

Talk about BOLD-In Your Face hubris........she can't even control herself when she KNOWS this story will hurt her........and it's not to rehabilitat housing for the working class.....it's about high rises and upscale shopping malls........you gotta hand it to the girl, she may be a traitor, but she's got moxie.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:51 AM on 12/10/2007
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Exactly...

This is why the Great State of New York cannot lose Senator Clinton, Hillary, stay in New York where you can be of use.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:37 AM on 12/10/2007

NYC is the biggest net tax exporter city to any state.

NYS is the biggest net tax exporter state to the federal guvmint.

Bush wants to cut federal counter-terrism funds, as if such is a purely municipal matter.

So let's keep it in perspective.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:36 AM on 12/10/2007
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LATE BREAKING NEWS - NEW YORK is MORE POPULATED than Delaware and South Carolina and Arizona.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:12 AM on 12/10/2007
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I am not a supporter of HRC. There are about 4 Dem canditates for president I would vote for before I vote for HRC.
But, regarding this headline, so what? She is a senator in one of the most populated, industrialized, tax-paying states. She is just doing her job.
At least it proves she is not totally incompetent, like some current presidents I could mention.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:53 AM on 12/10/2007
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