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red states rule
01-05-2009, 10:36 AM
So much for change coming to Washington folks. Looks like the Obama administration is bring a combination of Chicago thug politics, the third term of Bill Clinton, and never ending scandals to the nation


A donor's gift soon followed Clinton's help


WASHINGTON: A developer in New York state donated $100,000 to former President Bill Clinton's foundation in November 2004, around the same time that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton helped secure millions of dollars in federal assistance for the businessman's mall project.

Hillary Clinton helped enact legislation allowing the developer, Robert Congel, to use tax-exempt bonds to help finance the construction of the Destiny USA entertainment and shopping complex, an expansion of the Carousel Center in Syracuse.

She also helped secure a provision in a highway bill that set aside $5 million for Destiny USA roadway construction.

The bill with the tax-free bonds provision became law in October 2004, weeks before the donation, and the highway bill with the set-aside became law in August 2005, about nine months after the donation.

Congel and Philippe Reines, a spokesman for Hillary Clinton, both said there was no connection between his donation and her legislative work on his project's behalf. Reines said the senator had supported the expansion of Carousel mall "purely as part of her unwavering commitment to improving upstate New York's struggling economy, and nothing more


http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/04/americas/clinton.php

Classact
01-05-2009, 12:38 PM
And she still is recovering from the hangover of celebrating Gov Richardson's fall from fame... more red eyes for the Clintons

red states rule
01-05-2009, 12:53 PM
And she still is recovering from the hangover of celebrating Gov Richardson's fall from fame... more red eyes for the Clintons

Had to get rid of that Judas - as James Carville called him :lol:

avatar4321
01-05-2009, 02:34 PM
Clintons are in a scandal? wow... What a surprise!

red states rule
01-05-2009, 02:41 PM
Clintons are in a scandal? wow... What a surprise!

and Dems will ignore it. Wow...what a surprise!