Originally Posted By DAR <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ix9gRcdZCH-cHPInCs2jHlOHt7lQD95G22U00" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/hostedne...95G22U00</a> Even though the Holiday season is over you can help Hillary Clinton by relieving the debt from her campaign. On Jan 15 all you have to do is get to New York to watch a Bon Jovi show. All it takes $75 to $1,000. That's less than the cost of a really good DLP HD-TV. And every month you'll be updated on how Hillary is doing. You'll even get a photo of the former Presidential candidate. So please do what you can to help.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney I'll go to New York and watch a Bon Jovi concert, if Hillary Clinton will pay my way! I'm sure she has tons more money than I!!!
Originally Posted By charming husband Maybe she should have only spent what she could afford to pay back. Guess she should not have been out there pointing fingers at companies that spent more than they should have.
Originally Posted By ecdc There's obviously some kind of campaign law that I don't know about that prevents people and their spouses paying for their own campaign. I've seen the Clinton's income reports. They do ok.
Originally Posted By ecdc My only guess is that there's a law against spouses doing it. Or the Clintons don't want to set a precedent or something, since Hillary may run again. I don't know.
Originally Posted By Mr X Or they just don't wanna drop their own bucks. (it's one thing if you're filthy stinking rich like Forbes or Perot, another if you're merely uber-wealthy like the Clintons lol)
Originally Posted By alexbook >>There's obviously some kind of campaign law that I don't know about that prevents people and their spouses paying for their own campaign. I've seen the Clinton's income reports. They do ok.<< Note the last sentence in the linked article. She dropped $13.1 million of her own money into the campaign, and the campaign still has $6.3 million in debts.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut i think the actual candidate and their spouse can put their own funds in, its people on their staff that are prohibited as far as I know.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 Two Questions: 1) How does someone rack up 6.3 million dollars in debt for a campaign? Who the heck floated her the $6.3 million dollars? Banks? Direct creditors -- TV networks, printers, mailing service companies, landlords of temporary campaign offices, etc.? Can one just go to CBS and say, "Run my ad every half-hour during primetime for the next five weeks. I promise I'll pay you at some point"? 2) Is it just me, or does the fact that she racked up millions of dollars in campaign debt -- a debt obviously not covered by her supporters -- serve as some sort of indication that she was not as "Chosen" as she thought she was?
Originally Posted By markymouse Inspector, most of the debt, I think about $5 million, is to a single source. I forget the name, but it was a high powered campaign/polling organization. I had no idea that people made $5 million campaigning for candidates. I thought it was pretty much a "free donuts and diet Coke" sort of thing. The polling company spent a lot of its energy slamming Obama, which has apparently cut down on Obama supporters wanting to pay the money. Personally, if I owed $5 million to someone who lost me an election everyone expected me to win almost automatically, I'd be pretty tempted to, I don't know, pay them in the form of a Sharper Image gift card. But seriously, Hillary Clinton is a devoted public servant who gave 110% to serve her country - at least for the duration of one pretty moving conversation in New Hampshire. I think the least we can do is tighten our belts a little more and send this multimillionaire enough to tide her over until she quits Obama's administration and gets her next book advance.
