Powers & Colmes Dont Like Us Questioning Those Chinatown Donations
Kristin Powers and Alan Colmes are offended that you would question these donations. Is there any law being broken? What is being implied? Are you trying to imply that dishwashers can’t give money? Are you saying that these people shouldn’t be allowed to give? These are all questions that came up on the show last night. They are an obvious attempt to deflect the fact that this latest Clinton fundraising scandal is about to break wide open. (Transcript to be posted when avilable) video stream available here.
I’ll tell you what is being implied. Money laundering, and foreign donations .
Something remarkable happened at 44 Henry St., a grimy Chinatown tenement with peeling walls. It also happened nearby at a dimly lighted apartment building with trash bins clustered by the front door.
And again not too far away, at 88 E. Broadway beneath the Manhattan bridge, where vendors chatter in Mandarin and Fujianese as they hawk rubber sandals and bargain-basement clothes.
All three locations, along with scores of others scattered throughout some of the poorest Chinese neighborhoods in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx, have been swept by an extraordinary impulse to shower money on one particular presidential candidate — Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Dishwashers, waiters and others whose jobs and dilapidated home addresses seem to make them unpromising targets for political fundraisers are pouring $1,000 and $2,000 contributions into Clinton’s campaign treasury. In April, a single fundraiser in an area long known for its gritty urban poverty yielded a whopping $380,000. When Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) ran for president in 2004, he received $24,000 from Chinatown.
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October 20, 2007 - 09:43 AM on October 20th, 2007
Hmmm A Clinton receiving questionable campaign contributions from Chinese sources. Deja Vu. I wonder which Chinese businessman is trying to buy himself a few nights in the Lincoln bedroom this time? Or are they just funneling money into her campaign so that the Communist Chinese Government can buy up a few more of our ports like they did under her hubby?
The Chinese are rebuilding their military, while supporting someone who has a record of decimating ours. They won’t have to launch a nuclear attack, they’ll be able to just load a few divisions on cargo ships and off load them in Long Beach and the other ports that Bubba authorized them to purchase. With the gun laws in California and most liberal controlled states, the stiffest resistance they’ll face in California will be the Bloods and the Crips in Compton. Of course, once the get past the liberal left coast, the more inland states (or as the dems like to call them “Flyover country”) will be a bit tougher. Unlike California, we have barb wire, fertilizer, and diesel fuel and we know how to use them.
BTW who’s taking the bets on how long Norman Hsu has to wait for his presidential pardon if Hillary actually makes it to the White House?
October 20, 2007 - 10:14 AM on October 20th, 2007
FAO, my mind hadn’t gotten that far into this whole mess
October 22, 2007 - 04:24 PM on October 22nd, 2007
The DNC-China connection has been around for years. I wonder if that’s why AirAmerica is still bobbing its head, treading water, and gasping for air.