Hillary Clinton Raises Money to Retire Campaign Debt

While President-elect Barack Obama raised nearly a billion dollars and still has $30 million left, his Secretary of State pick Hillary Clinton still has $7.5 million in campaign debt. According to the Daily News, Ugly Betty star America Ferrera is helping Clinton, whom Ferrera supported during the presidential campaign, by "hosting a 'conversation' in support of Hillary Clinton for President Debt Relief.'" Also expected at the conversation: Bill Clinton. Vice President-elect Joe Biden sent an email to Obama-Biden supporters, asking them to also help with Clinton's debt relief, "Our campaign pledged to help Sen. Hillary Clinton...retire her campaign debt... I saw your generosity and commitment to this team throughout the election, and I know we can do it. Will you make a contribution of $100 or more now to retire Hillary's campaign debt?” The money Clinton owes is mostly for vendors--and $3.5 million is for pollster Mark Penn!

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By Jen Chung in News on December 5, 2008 4:02 PM

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NannyState

$40? Doesn't she give "senior discounts"?

NannyState

Why don't they ask their pal Robert Rubin to write the check? That bloated tick made hundreds of millions off of Citigroup's bullshit and could easily part with the cash, although probably only in exchange for immunity.

Snoopy

It looks like a pissing match between Bill and Hillary on this one. "It's my money. No it's my money. No it's my money. When I earn the money it's our money but when you earn the money it's your money. What gives? It's my money."

EastRiver

This is disgusting. Why should anyone help someone in the top 0.01 percent retire her "debt"? Pay it off with your $100+ million in earnings since 2001, Hillary.

cucarachita

I do not feel that way about Obama and Hillary, suepart. I think you are wrong. I think she is perfectly qualified for that job. I just don't think she should be bailed out.

suepart

why doesn't she ask her dog, i mean, new boss, obama for more help since he already gave her the keys to the white house again?

cucarachita

Well, that's why I say, LongAcre, that she should come up with the money herself. She would have been president of the free world, and now she's acting like the wife who went to the store and put too much on the charge card.

I want a feminist to stand up on her own two feet and show the world that a woman doesn't need a bail-out when she runs for the highest office and falls on her ass in the process. Let her dust herself off and get on with it!

Felix Hoenikker

Perhaps her debt collectors can get in touch with mob muscle to greet her on her trips to Russia.

longacre

Cucarachita: Hillary lent her campaign several million out of her own pocket. It seems that she very conveniently paid herself back before paying these innocent vendors. She is truly a piece of garbage.

cucarachita

I am against a feminist like Hillary playing the damsel in distress here. Let her raise it herself. This is not the example she should be setting for woman in America. Oh, so she can run for the highest office, but when she's back from her jaunt, she expects to be saved from the pain of the consequences of her own decisions?

No. She has to raise it herself.

Snoopy

Doesn't she talk to Bill? He could write a check to pay off the debt and the credit card companies will stop calling her at dinner time. Or she could take out a debt consolidation loan like you hear advertised on the radio.

cucarachita

Let her write a book. You're telling me neither she nor her husband have that much in the bank?

No way I'm helping pay her debt. Let her raise it herself.

NO BAIL-OUT FOR HILLARY!!!