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Friday, February 22, 2008

In the News: Clinton Campaign Spending

I have no idea what the funds usually go for. I've always wondered how many national projects could be completed to benefit EVERYONE if all of the candidates donated the huge amounts of contributions they get. - AThinker

anyway, found this article in The New York Times:

Donors Worried by Clinton Campaign Spending


Published: February 22, 2008

This article was reported by Michael Luo, Jo Becker and Patrick Healy and was written by Mr. Healy


Nearly $100,000 went for party platters and groceries before the Iowa caucuses, even though the partying mood evaporated quickly. Rooms at the Bellagio luxury hotel in Las Vegas consumed more than $25,000; the Four Seasons, another $5,000. And top consultants collected about $5 million in January, a month of crucial expenses and tough fund-raising.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s latest campaign finance report, published Wednesday night, appeared even to her most stalwart supporters and donors to be a road map of her political and management failings. Several of them, echoing political analysts, expressed concerns that Mrs. Clinton’s spending priorities amounted to costly errors in judgment that have hamstrung her competitiveness against Senator Barack Obama of Illinois.

“We didn’t raise all of this money to keep paying consultants who have pursued basically the wrong strategy for a year now,” said a prominent New York donor. “So much about her campaign needs to change — but it may be too late.”

The high-priced senior consultants to Mrs. Clinton, of New York, have emerged as particular targets of complaints, given that they conceived and executed a political strategy that has thus far proved unsuccessful.

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