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♦ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2007
The Democrats’ Foreign Funny Money
Here’s a peculiar
thing about the
holier-than-thou
Campaign Finance Reform
crowd. Whenever the stench
of dirty
money
starts
waft
ing from
Democrat
Party cof
fers, the
clean elec
tion lob
byists are
nowhere
to be
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Michelle Malkin
Columnist
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found. They’ll raise hell and
hackles over American cor
porate donors. But when
it’s shady foreign operators
infusing cash into our elec
toral system, you’ll only hear
one sound: the deafening
swell of crickets chirping.
Hillary and Bill Clinton
have declared themselves
“shocked” at revelations
about one of the Democrat
Party’s mysterious, deep
pocketed bagmen, Hong
Kong native Norman Hsu.
Hsu, a prodigious Democrat
donor, was arrested last week
after having evaded the law
for 15 years over grand
theft swindling charges. Hsu
pleaded no context to those
charges and was supposed to
serve jail time. Instead, he
managed to remain a fugi
tive while raking in hun
dreds of thousands of dollar s
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for Democrat candidates and
officeholders - and posing
openly for photographs with
the likes of Hillary Clinton.
According to investigative
blogger Flip Pidot (suitably
flip.com), who delved into
public records and crunched
the numbers, Clinton took
the lion’s share of political
cash ($174,000) from Hsu
and his network of suspected
donor-bundlers whose cam
paign checks dwarfed their
income. New York Attorney
General Andrew Cuomo and
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mer Attorney General) Eliot
Spitzer accepted the larg
est sums of direct cash from
Hsu.
Reports • Pidot: “Among
state parties, campaign
committees, and advoca
cy groups, the Democratic
Senatorial Campaign
Committee topped the list,
with $122,000, though three
state Democratic parties or
committees (Tennessee, New
York, and New Jersey) took
more from Hsu directly. Of
the 32 organizations that
took money from Hsu and
his associates, 10 were state
Democratic parties and sev
eral others were Democratic
campaign committees. The
84 individuals who received
money from Hsu and his
associates included 17
Gubernatorial candidates,
17 Congressional candidates,
27 Senatorial candidates,
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And disingenuous pleas of Ignorance and
shock."
and a variety of statewide
and local candidates. All
were Democrats, with the
exception of Toni Gallagher,
Florida’s former CFO and
an unsuccessful primary
challenger to Charlie Crist
in the 2006 Governor race.
Including candidate-spe
cific PACs, these individuals
have taken just over $1 mil
lion from Hsu’s group since
the 2004 cycle. . . . Another
22 organizations received
support from Hsu’s net
work since 2004, primarily
Democratic campaign com
mittees and state Democratic
parties.” .
Former President Clinton,
who left the White House up
to his eyeballs in campaign
finance scandals, retreated
to Southern folksy talk when
asked about the Hsu scandal
over the weekend.
“You could have knocked
me over with a straw, espe
cially when I heard the L.A.
people had been allegedly
looking for him for 15 years
when he was in plain view,”
he told Newsday. With a
straw? How about a cluebat?
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The truth smarts like a
snapped thong. Thwack.
The straw donor scheme has
clear shades of the Clintons’
Chinagate scheme: Dubious
givers. Con artist rainmak
ers. And disingenuous pleas
of ignorance and shock.
While the campaign finance
reform crowd ducks under
the table, there is one vocifer
ous group making noise. Like
clockwork, Asian-American
groups were first out of the
gate protesting public scru
tiny of the foreign donors
and whining about profiling.
Deja vu all over again. “It
would be wholly inappropri
ate to link this in any way to
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involve Asian-Americans,”
Lawrence Barcella, a lawyer
for Hsu, who is a top donor
to Hillary Clinton and other
Democrats, told Politico.com
No. It’s because both
involve the craven Clintons,
a trademark incuriosity
about the backgrounds of big
donors and a network of gen
erous contributors of notably
meager means.
Executive director of
the Asian American Legal
Defense and Education Fund
in New York, Margaret Fung,
a prominent voice who decried
every last newspaper story
about convicted campaign
finance felon John Huang
during the 19905, recycled
her old talking points again:
“It links Norman Hsu and the
Paw family to other Asian-
American donors in previous
campaigns, solely because of
their race. It insinuates that
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prone to making improper
donations and have been
doing this for years. What
is this obsession with Asian-
American donors?”
What is this knee-jerk
obsession with crying racism
and wallowing in collective
ethnic grievances? It’s not
just about “Asian-American”
donors. It’s about felon and
fugitive donors of a rainbow
of races and backgrounds.
It’s about the-Clintons’ -- and
the Dems’ - systemic comer
cutting, campaign corruption
and double standards. There
is a Chinese saying: “When
you drink water, always think
about the source.”
Peering into the poisoned
well isn’t “racism.” It’s the
duty of a responsible repub
lic.
Michelle Malkin is author
of “Unhinged: Exposing
Liberals Gone Wild. ”
Her e-mail address is
malkinblog@gmail.com.
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