Nearly one in five "HillRaisers," the elite big-money fundraisers for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, have ties to the 1990s fundraising scandal that tarnished her husband's presidency by offering Democratic donors sleepovers in the Lincoln Bedroom and other perks inside the White House.
A Lincoln Bedroom visitor, Mrs. Dozoretz, raised $2 million for Mr. Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign, $1 million for the Clinton presidential library and hosted a "rally-around-the-president party" that raised $1 million for Mr. Clinton's legal defense in the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
So far in the 2008 campaign, Mrs. Dozoretz has given $20,000 to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), $2,300 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, $12,650 to other Democrats and $4,200 to Mrs. Clinton, according to Federal Election Commission records.
Hey, wait a minute, I thought Hillary was about "change"? Or was that just the phrase of the day for her?
Mrs. Clinton, who has raised more than $118 million so far for her 2008 race, has acknowledged that campaign donors were invited to spend the night in the second-floor Lincoln Bedroom but denied that the visits were in exchange for campaign donations.
Ok, fair enough. Name me some people who were invited over to the Lincoln bedroom that WEREN'T donors or celebrities?
So 50 people who were associated with a funding scandal are still with Hillary. Isn't this the same thing that Democrats were pissed at Republicans about? Even one tainted or corrupt Republican hanging around the President was enough to send them into a frenzy about "appropriate" people to hang around. Hillary has 50. Where's the outrage? Where's the concern? Where's the people pointing out the hypocrisy? Am I the only one who's doing it? I can't be the only one. That would make me some kind of weirdo. :)
But here's a list of the names of Hillary's people that were associated then as well as now:
Ambassador Elizabeth Bagley
Leonard Barrack
William Brandt
Ron Burkle
John Catsimatidis
Ellen Chesler
Betsy Cohn
Barbaralee Diamonstein
Beth Dozoretz
Mike Driver
Voda "Betsy" Ebeling
Debra Farar
Sim Farar
Geraldine Ferraro
Michael Goldberg
Stephen L. Green
Brian Greenspun
Steven Grossman
Fred P. Hochberg
Kaki Hockersmith
Jill Iscol
John "Duke" Kinney
Christopher Korge
Cynthia Leesfield
Ira Leesfield
Thomas Leonard
Philip Levine
Matthew Mallow
Gary Mauro
Kevin O'Keefe
Alan J. Patricof
Lisa Perry
Richard Perry
Steven Rattner
Gov. Edward G. Rendell
Cheryl Saban
Haim Saban
Elaine Schuster
Gerry Schuster
Stanley S. Shuman
Roy Spence
Steven Spielberg
Ambassador Carl Spielvogel
Michael Turpen
Susan Turpen
Mark Weiner
Carol Shields Westbrook
Hugh Westbrook
Maureen White
Travis
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