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Barack Obama might be surprised to learn that Hillary Clinton kept her campaign running after endorsing him for president.
From the Washington Times
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton‘s team has told the Federal Election Commission that she continued her campaign even after endorsing Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama on June 7, a claim that lets her transfer millions of dollars from her presidential bid to her Senate campaign.
The former first lady made the $6.4 million transfer from her White House campaign, which remains more than $7 million in debt, to Friends of Hillary on Aug. 28. That date would fall outside the legal deadline for making such a move if her campaign were to have ended June 7.
Her campaign treasurer told federal regulators that Mrs. Clinton spent more than a quarter-million dollars engaging in “vigorous political activity” throughout June, according to newly released FEC filings.
“The committee continued to actively contest for delegates at the state and local delegate-selection events during the month of June,” campaign treasurer Shelly Moskwa wrote in a letter to the FEC dated Nov. 20. “Nothing in Senator Clinton’s remarks indicated that she was withdrawing from the race.
“While she indicated that she was suspending her campaign, the term ‘suspension’ has no legal meaning,” Ms. Moskwa wrote.
Precisely when Mrs. Clinton, who is expected to be Mr. Obama’s secretary of state nominee, dropped out of the Democratic presidential primaries is emerging as an important legal question for FEC regulators examining the transfer of funds. Such transfers are legal if donors give their permission, and the Clinton campaign has said donors indeed authorized the move.
Still, such transfers also must take place within 60 days of when a candidate withdraws from the race, according to FEC rules. The Aug. 28 transfer date fell more than 80 days after her June 7 concession to Mr. Obama, in which she told supporters in Washington that “we must elect Barack Obama our president. I endorse him and throw my full support behind him.”
And this is the woman that Barack Obama wants as his Secretary of State?
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5 Comments for FEC Questions Hillary Money Transfer
Happy Pick, Post 1;
So – are there any “trashy politician” and “hack” Republicans?
And – can you name even ONE positive thing any Secretary of State has accomplished over the last eight years?
And – don’t you think that if the USA needed some of “God’s help” – we REALLY could have used it over the past eight years?
And – don’t you think that Bush II, Cheney and Rumsfeld were doing little more than “furthering their ambitions” over the last eight years?
The divisiveness caused by extremist partisan ideology is more harmful to this country’s well-being than are the machinations of any foreign terrorists.
“The divisiveness caused by extremist partisan ideology is more harmful to this country’s well-being than are the machinations of any foreign terrorists.”
Then tell me why, TK, you are exercising such divisiveness? You said it, I didn’t.
Happy Pick, Post 3;
I have no clue how anyone could interpret my sentence to be indicative of me being divisive.
Personally, I think extremist ideologues (Lefty Loons and Righty Rockheads) in BOTH major parties are bringing harm to the political well-being of the nation by creating disunity and division (e.g., Red States vs. Blue States, etc.) – and, personally – I believe BOTH political parties as currently constituted (each being overly-influenced by their respective fringe minorities, e.g., the San Francisco Values crowd vs. the Christian Fundamentalist crowd) have outlived their usefulness.
If you don’t get it, then you don’t get it.
TK, “get what?” Now you’re parroting Obamassiah. Try to be original, if possible. I don’t live by nonsensical platitudes.
I don’t think anyone can possibly be surprised by anything this trashy politician does, has done or will do to further her ambitions. God help the poor USA if this hack becomes Secretary of State!