Hillary Rodham Clinton Buys Vilsack
It just keeps getting better. That is if you find the endless stream of unethical practices in politics to be a topic worthy of discussion. As the story below indicates, former governor Tom Vilsack received a hefty sum of money from the Clinton campaign coffers to swear allegiance to the Queen of Cringe. So the next time you hear Hillary Rodham Clinton put on a fake Southern drawl to match her fake concern for voters remember this story as well as others. It really doesn’t matter if she fakes an accent as not much crosses her lips that you can believe. And any character or integrity that may have been attributed to Tom Vilsack has been valued at $90,000, courtesy of Democrat donors from several states.
One of the quotes in the article characterizes this practice as ‘not unusual’ as if to clean a dirty deal. Further quotes claim Vilsack was not purchased, friendship with the Clintons is longstanding and that Vilsack believes Clinton is the best candidate for the job. Real freshman spin from a campaign that is supposed to be a frontrunner. One dirty candidate paying off another dirty candidate from dirty money provided by dirty donors in a dirty campaign to return a dirty politician to the White House.
Stanford Matthews
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After Backing Clinton, Vilsack Nets $87,000
By DAN MORAIN
Los Angeles Times
July 18, 2007
Shortly after endorsing Senator Clinton’s presidential campaign, a former Iowa governor, Tom Vilsack, received nearly $90,000 from donors who are among Mrs. Clinton’s major backers, campaign finance reports show.The donations, disclosed in Federal Election Commission filings over the weekend, came from Clinton fund-raising bastions of New York, California, Texas, and Washington, D.C. None came from Iowa, where Mr. Vilsack served two terms as governor.
Mr. Vilsack, unable to raise the tens of millions needed to wage a serious presidential campaign, withdrew from the race in February. In a finance report filed Sunday covering the first half of the year, Mr. Vilsack disclosed that he had $2,962 in cash and a leftover debt of $148,000.