More questions about Chinese funny money and fundraising for Hillary Clinton:

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The senator’s campaign drew substantial donations from New York’s Chinatown. The candidate’s unparalleled fundraising success relies largely on the least-affluent residents of New York’s Chinatown — some of whom can’t be tracked down.

By Peter Nicholas and Tom Hamburger,
Los Angeles Times
October 19, 2007

NEW YORK — 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.

At this point in the presidential campaign cycle, Clinton has raised more money than any candidate in history. Those dishwashers, waiters and street stall hawkers are part of the reason. And Clinton’s success in gathering money from Chinatown’s least-affluent residents stems from a two-pronged strategy: mutually beneficial alliances with powerful groups, and appeals to the hopes and dreams of people now consigned to the margins.

Clinton has enlisted the aid of Chinese neighborhood associations, especially those representing recent immigrants from Fujian province. The organizations, at least one of which is a descendant of Chinatown criminal enterprises that engaged in gambling and human trafficking, exert enormous influence over immigrants. The associations help them with everything from protection against crime to obtaining green cards.

Many of Clinton’s Chinatown donors said they had contributed because leaders in neighborhood associations told them to. In some cases, donors said they felt pressure to give.

So basically, Hillary went to the Chinese Mafia and said “pay up or else.”

Talk about an offer impossible to refuse!

The L.A. Times has been at the forefront of the latest Chinese funny money scandal. Here are some previous stories:

The Clinton Chinese Connection: Roots in Little Rock Past

Fu Lin’s Chinese Restaurant in Little Rock, Arkansas. The early nexus of Clinton connections to Chinese funny money.

Need a refresher on the roots of corruption that run deep throughout the Clinton story? Mike’s America did the footwork in September and took readers on this tour of sites in Little Rock Arkansas that featured prominently in the early Clinton scandals. Uncovering the Clinton scandals, one fact leaps out: Hillary Clinton’s fingerprints are all over more them.

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SlimGuy
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I have been following all this very closely and the low income aspect here is different then some areas of her campaign.

Hillary has been working strong outreach to all sorts of nationalistic/ethnic groups during the runup to this election. Mostly I have seen hooking in through business organizations and civic groups with what tends to be the high dollar movers and shakers in the various communities.

That is one thing but if it reaches down to people this low on the spectrum then you start needing to look at how it got there whats the back story.

This story has a lot of legs left to run.

October 19th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
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The “Working Poor” Enrich the Clinton Campaign

The LA Times has a very interesting story about how Chinatown dishwashers and busboys, occupations not known for huge paychecks have given Senator Clinton’s presidential campaign over $380,000.
Dishwashers, waiters and others whose jobs and dilap…

October 19th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
scrapiron
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I read there are several million fortune cookies floating around with the fortune, ‘give to Shrillary or buy crutches with your money’. LMAO

October 19th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
jainphx
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This Chinese connection is very disturbing, if this was a new story it wouldn’t be so bad. This has been going on since Bills campaigns in Arkansas. What needs to be aired out is whats the connection between the Clintons and China. There is something nefarious here that needs to be brought out in the open.

October 20th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Doc
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Question - How is this story about NY ethnic communities in the LA Times and not the NY Papers? Curious …

October 20th, 2007 at 11:33 am
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The Idiocy of the Undecided Voter

October 21st, 2007 at 10:46 pm
dave kimball
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ENOUGH CLINTON BULL SHIT! SHE’S A PIG!

October 25th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Martha Turner
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Obama’s Dirty Tricks?

Dear Sisters and Brothers for Hillary,

Let me call to Hillary’s attention to what is being said about her and Bill and Chelsea on one very nasty pro-Obama website I came across, http://www.matrix-evolutions.com. They are actually connecting up Bill’s Monica tryst with parental sexual abuse on Chelsea if you can believe it! Whether it is better not paid attention to or countered, I don’t know, but somebody who does know what the right response is should be made aware of this. The beginning of this website, which focuses on the election reads:

We are scientists who derive our politics from an evolutionary perspective, not from conservative ideology. Our analysis concludes that our so-called war on terror is slowly but surely taking us to World War III. Note Putin’s 2/8/08 call for a renewed arms race to counter America’s efforts to conquer the world. For that reason we support Barack Obama as the only real anti-war candidate, the only one who can keep such a nuclear tipped train wreck from happening.

As to Hillary Clinton, recall during their populist administration that President Bill and missus, while promising health care they never delivered, did deliver more police and prisons, and took our jail population to the highest per-capita level in the world. This statistic, ahem, is historically associated with hardened police states like Stalinist Russia and apartheid South Africa. We all know that spitting on the street nowadays will get you six months in jail. But of course we’re not a police state, because if we were, you’d have heard about it on the evening news.

The Clintons as president also made their upper class handlers happy by ending LBJs war on poverty, which brought about the vast population of homeless beggars we see on the streets of America today. Pearls for the wealthy, evictions for the rest of us. Don’t laugh. It could happen to you. Wait until the recession, caused primarily by our trillion dollar War in Iraq, gets into high gear. Goodbye nest egg when the market totally collapses. Goodbye home thanks to the Shylock mortgage brokers in bed with the conservatives. Hello suffering on the street with your kids in a foster home.

Actually Hillary does have a few things she can be very proud of. She is a most talented actress, a profoundly adept social climber and a top paid shill of the upper class. She is our American Evita and almost everybody loves her style. But whatever her talents and personal accomplishments, she is not going to go against the wishes of the ruling clique who created her and Bill and stop their war.

Some think that Hillary would never lie to us. But Bill also insisted he would never lie to us and is so amazingly good an actor, almost as good as his wife, that we yet believe him even after the tape recording caught him with the cigar between Monica’s legs. What character is there in a first family when the head of the most powerful nation on earth is sticking a penile object, not even his own, up some college kid’s vagina? Does anybody think Hillary felt personally bad about the Monica thing other than not having her usual go with one of Bill’s girls? Watch the conservatives bring forth one of Hillary’s lovers soon to clarify her tastes in this area. Indeed, one would not be surprised if the less than confident, slightly retarded, persona Chelsea Clinton was condemned to live her life with derives from her pervert parents abusing her when she was four years old. Certainly there is as much truth in this conjecture as in the equally outrageous conjecture that the Clintons are not good people even though they go to church every Sunday. If evil is badness that comes from an unexpected source, the Clintons are evil enough to have shit stuffed in their mouths and be set on fire. That’s an opinion of their character, not a threat on their lives, for all you hate speech monitors out there.

Unfortunately, though, short of a revolution, we may be stuck with another Clinton figurehead presidency, for our evolutionary analysis shows clearly that while biological evolution is not of intelligent design, our presidential elections are. They are intelligently designed by the conservative ruling clique that has hold of our media and our courts, including our Supreme Court, which designed the last election outcome. Which all of you meekly accepted because the majority of Americans are basically passive cowards who lack the courage it takes to stand up to tyranny. The upper classes would never allow Obama to become president and stop the war. They would assassinate him first, literally have him shot like Martin Luther King, if the media they control can’t derail his candidacy in a more subtle way. We reach these outrageous conclusions, not from bipolar disease, but from a firm scientific analysis whose details follow after we have introduced ourselves.

I hope this information helps.
Onward to victory,
Martha Turner

February 12th, 2008 at 12:38 am
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Martha: Why are you commenting on a dead thread?

February 12th, 2008 at 7:39 am

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