The story about Hillary’s funny money from New York’s Chinatown seems to be growing legs, albeit at a slow pace. The Washington Post had an editorial today with some interesting excerpts:
DONORS WHOSE addresses turn out to be tenements. Dishwashers and waiters who write $1,000 checks. Immigrants who ante up because they have been instructed to by powerful neighborhood associations, or, as one said, “They informed us to go, so I went.” Others who say they never made the contributions listed in their names or who were not eligible to give because they are not legal residents of the United States. This is the disturbingly familiar picture of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign presented last week in a report by the Los Angeles Times about questionable fundraising by the New York senator in New York City’s Chinese community. Out of 150 donors examined, one-third “could not be found using property, telephone or business records,” the Times reported. “Most have not registered to vote, according to public records.”
This appears to be another instance in which a Clinton campaign’s zeal for campaign cash overwhelms its judgment. After the fundraising scandals of President Bill Clinton’s 1996 reelection campaign, the dangers of vacuuming cash from a politically inexperienced immigrant community should have been obvious. But Ms. Clinton’s money machine seized on a new source of cash in Chinatown and environs. As the Times reported, a single Chinatown fundraiser in April brought in $380,000. By contrast, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry raised $24,000 from Chinatown in the course of his entire campaign.
Oh, it starts off very, very well. But by the end of the story, the Washington Post demonstrated its editorial-by-committee policy and allows Hillary to play the race card:
The alternative, the campaign says, would be to prevent those with foreign-sounding names from participating in the political process.
That’s right, the poor Clinton campaign did nothing wrong despite the LA Times investigative results that the local Chinatown put some muscle on poor Chinese immigrants with the vague promise that Clinton would do something for them. Furthermore, anyone questioning their process of strong-arming money is a racist pig who is a part of the vast right-wing conspiracy.
The Washington Post caved in and merely called “to strengthen a vetting process that seems geared more toward justifying the acceptance of checks than toward uncovering problems.”
Hello, Washington Post — the Clintons and their staff have no vetting process. Remember these little incidents, which are just examples of many more similar incidents?
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The Charlie Trie donation scandal, where a Chinese busboy at a Little Rock restaurant frequented by Clinton suddenly is able to tap into millions of People’s Republic of China dollars for Clinton’s defense fund and even brought in a major Chinese arms dealer, Wang Jun, as a guest to the White House. Only four days before Wang Jun’s White House visit, the Clinton Administration granted an import permit for a Chinese military front company, Poly Technologies, to allow them to import over 100,000 semi-automatic weapons and millions of rounds of ammunition to a Detroit company, China Jiang An. China Jiang An also had close ties to the Chinese military.
Remember how emphatic the Clinton administration was to get guns off the streets of America? If that was the case, then why did they grant a special permit to a known Chinese military front company to import 100,000 semi-automatic weapons?
- Johnny Chung donated $366,000 to the Democratic National Convention. Chung testified under oath to the U.S. House Committee investigating Chung that he was introduced to Chinese Gen. Ji Shengde, then the head of Chinese military intelligence, by Liu Chaoying, the daughter of China’s most powerful military official. Chung claims that Ji told him: “We really like your President. We hope he will be reelected. I will give you $300,000 US. You can give it to — or use it for your President and Democrat Party.”
So why did China’s military like President Clinton and the Chinese military so much? Yes, Virginia, there was a quid pro quo.
- Then there’s the doofus Al Gore, who attended a fundraiser at the Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple in Hacienda, California. The fundraiser (imagine the media fury if President Bush held a fundraiser at a Baptist Church) was hosted by Maria Hsia who — you guessed it — also has ties to Communist China. Gore claimed that he did not know it was a fundraiser despite the fact that his planner knew. Gore had amazing memory lapses during conversations about the temple visit.
The fact is that the Clintons have a history of dubious ties to China and the Chinese military. The fact that Hillary used the race card in responding to the LA Times investigation is a sure clue that something more ominous is afoot and that she’s been caught, or at least partially caught, red-handed. Get it? Red, as in Red China, which is what China was called up until the end of the 1960s?
The Washington Post needs to get its crack team of reporters, or better yet, the few reporters it has that don’t smoke crack, and begin investigating the scandal. The New York Times needs to get in on the action, too, before it’s left behind.
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