Here we go again, when is "is" "is"?

[samintx]

http://www.aim.org/don-irvine-blog/fec-q...-transfer/

Hillary is just as shifty as her husband when it comes to words meaning. Transfer of money? legal? we shall see.



FEC Questions Hillary Money Transfer


By Don | November 24, 2008



Barack Obama might be surprised to learn that Hillary Clinton kept her campaign running after endorsing him for president.

From the Washington Times

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton‘s team has told the Federal Election Commission that she continued her campaign even after endorsing Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama on June 7, a claim that lets her transfer millions of dollars from her presidential bid to her Senate campaign.

The former first lady made the $6.4 million transfer from her White House campaign, which remains more than $7 million in debt, to Friends of Hillary on Aug. 28. That date would fall outside the legal deadline for making such a move if her campaign were to have ended June 7.

Her campaign treasurer told federal regulators that Mrs. Clinton spent more than a quarter-million dollars engaging in “vigorous political activity” throughout June, according to newly released FEC filings.

“The committee continued to actively contest for delegates at the state and local delegate-selection events during the month of June,” campaign treasurer Shelly Moskwa wrote in a letter to the FEC dated Nov. 20. “Nothing in Senator Clinton’s remarks indicated that she was withdrawing from the race.

“While she indicated that she was suspending her campaign, the term ‘suspension’ has no legal meaning,” Ms. Moskwa wrote.

Precisely when Mrs. Clinton, who is expected to be Mr. Obama’s secretary of state nominee, dropped out of the Democratic presidential primaries is emerging as an important legal question for FEC regulators examining the transfer of funds. Such transfers are legal if donors give their permission, and the Clinton campaign has said donors indeed authorized the move.

Still, such transfers also must take place within 60 days of when a candidate withdraws from the race, according to FEC rules. The Aug. 28 transfer date fell more than 80 days after her June 7 concession to Mr. Obama, in which she told supporters in Washington that “we must elect Barack Obama our president. I endorse him and throw my full support behind him.”

And this is the woman that Barack Obama wants as his Secretary of State?



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[mattkime]

>>And this is the woman that Barack Obama wants as his Secretary of State?

Yup, get over it.

[Lux Interior]

So what's the fauxtrage this time? That she kept her campaign running in some weird "legal" sense, or that she illegally transferred money?

They seem to be mutually exclusive. Are you trying to float both and see which one generates more fauxtrage?

[cbelt3]

Yuu forget that as Sec State she will have NOTHING to do with:
Budgets
Taxes
Healthcare
Fiscal Policy
etc.

In other words, she's being rendered 'perfectly safe'. The only thing she can eff up is foreign policy, and the current administration set the bar WAY low for that. I mean, she could get the Nobel Peace Prize just by showing up for work in the morning.

[OWC Jamie]

rule bending could be seen as a requisite tool.

If McCain does it he should go to jail and bring Bush with him for no reason except that would incite glee.

[$tevie]

I remember people making a big deal out of the fact that she referred to it as "suspending her campaign". Don't you all recall the speculation at the time that she was going to attempt to topple Obama at the convention through devious and spurious back-stabbing and betrayal? Come on, some of you couldn't stop guessing about it.

I myself figured the wording had something to do with money and funding, and I was of course right. Whether her semantics will work or not I cannot say, but it should have been obvious it was the reason for her terminology. I guess that wasn't as much fun to imagine as an insanely selfish Hillary bringing down the Democratic Party around her ears.

[GGD]

I really don't think it's a surprise to Obama (or anyone that reads the news) that Hillary kept fund raising to pay off her debt beyond June 7th. He personally contributed to it and encouraged others to do so on June 26th.

"I'm going to need Hillary by my side campaigning during his election, and I'm going to need all of you," Obama said, according to a report written by the only reporter allowed into the event and shared with other reporters afterward. He recounted how he had told his top fundraisers this week "to get out their checkbooks and start working to make sure Senator Clinton — the debt that's out there needs to be taken care of."

In a symbolic gesture, Obama delivered a personal check for $4,600, for himself and his wife, Michelle. The maximum individual donation allowed by law is $2,300.

http://cbs3.com/campaign08/obama.clinton...58356.html