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6A ♦ 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 l ——i glpSi PjjfeL Michelle Malkin Columnist malkin@comcast net 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 Hammertoes have varying symptoms What are hammertoes? Hammertoes are the buck ling of any of the toe joints. Affected joints may include joints at the end or middle of the toe, as well as the joint near the ball of the foot. Tight tendons or Dr. Jokhai Columnist TkMMr muscle in-balance are usual ly the cause of the toe joints to curl. Hammertoes vary in severity and in the number of joints and toes involved. Hammertoes are either flexible or rigid. A flexible hammertoe can be straight ened with your finger and most are not painful. A rigid hammertoe can not be removed even with your finger. Rigid joints may cause foot movements that are painful and distort. This may put extra stress on the balls of the feet, caus ing a callus to develop. WALKER From page 4A announced that he would not seek re-election.. Bobby will be succeeded in office by Willie King, who qualified without opposition. I know Rev. King, and I believe he will give good service in this council post. Yes, Mrs. Harrison, I know it should have been “Nothing Much About Which To Write” rather than “Nothing Much To Write About,” but it just didn’t sound right. And, sur prisingly, when I got start ed, there was much about which to write. You’re right, Charlotte, there is apparent ly always something to write about - excuse me, about which to write. Right? EVANS From page 4A some civilians are killed is disgraceful. If you send them into a combat zone, where anyone can be your enemy and executioner, the least you can do is permit them to use their weapons when in a situation that they consider to be dangerous. Sending some of them to prison because they did not play by civilian rules for people far away from com bat is ridiculous and almost criminal. 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 New York Governor (and for 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. 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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? Funny money? In the party of Clean Campaigns? No! •Jewelry Repair & Cleaning •Watch Repair ... . Hours: •Engraving Mon . -Fri. •Appraisals 9:3oam-s:3opm •Estate Jewelry Sat -1 9:3oam-2pm •Class Rings OPINION 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. 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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 Asian-Americans are more j||| MineraCMakeup - foundation, powder, sparse, hCush, eyeshadow, eyefiner jMs? Other (Products - [ip pfoss, lip haCm, salt scru6z, sa(t soa[z, handmade soap, Ciderz rod-on perfume, 6rushes (incCudinp refi[[ah[e Srush), makeup hap, scru6 p Coves, and more j|k Creationz (By Me - coCor and scent your own 6ody Cotion, shampoo, huhhCe hath oiC, and body wash - preat party idea rfits avaiClhCe) Deanna Rivers Independent Consultant HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL 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. 153176