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Shield Money
BY Sarah Laskow | November 01, 2007
Top advisers to Hillary Clinton are trying to shrug off a slew of attacks on the senator by claiming that aggression from her male opponents will push female voters toward her camp. But The Hill listened in on a campaign conference call and found out what senior strategist Mark Penn and finance director Jonathan Mantz really think: They tell supporters that as the attacks continue, they’ll need yet more money to fight back.
‘Jake, This Is Chinatown . . .’
BY Sarah Laskow | November 01, 2007
The Justice Department may be probing political fund-raising activities in New York’s Chinatown in the wake of a story in the Los Angeles Times about Democrat Hillary Clinton’s numerous donors there. The Associated Press reports that at least one of Clinton’s Chinatown donors, Hsiao Yen Wang, has been asked by criminal investigators if her donation was voluntary. The Justice Department declined to comment.
With Love Comes Money
BY Sarah Laskow | October 31, 2007
The Huckabee campaign raised more than $1 million online in the month of October, reports ABC News. As Mike Huckabee, the former Republican governor of Arkansas, has seen a recent surge in poll numbers, his campaign set an ambitious online fundraising goal to exceed $1,034,487 — its website’s intake for the entire third quarter. As of today, it had topped that number by nearly $30,000.
Security Blanket
BY Caitlin Ginley | October 30, 2007
Rudy Giuliani is still drawing paychecks from Giuliani Partners, the New York-based security consulting firm that he promised to leave this past spring to focus on his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, The Washington Post reports. (The company paid Giuliani about $4.1 million last year.) While Giuliani’s campaign maintains that the arrangement is legal, Scott Reed, an unaligned GOP political consultant, describes it as “a lawyer’s nightmare.”
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