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Dems Will Win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-13-08 08:35 PM
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2006 CLINTON DONORS: Hillary sold yr name to InfoUSA for mere $80k, in return for Clinton Library $$
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Edited on Wed Feb-13-08 08:38 PM by Dems Will Win
This is a big deal it seems. Candidates sell lists but NEVER doing the campaign!! What was she thinking?

Clintons' InfoUSA Ties Scrutinized
by Peter Overby

Last year, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton took the unusual step of renting out some of her lists. The transaction once again highlights the Clintons' connections to a businessman who now faces questions from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Reports from Clinton's campaign show that on Dec. 3, it collected payment for renting out three mailing lists, the sale of which netted them $8,225.

It was an unusual transaction, according to Roger Craver, a liberal guru of the political direct-mail industry.


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According to one direct-mail professional, $800,000 would have seemed like a more plausible price for a quality list...

Vin Gupta has a long history of giving and raising campaign money for the Clintons, and gave $1 million for the 2000 Millennium Celebration, a New Year's Party thrown by the Clintons.

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Gupta spent $900,000 of corporate money flying the Clintons to various destinations. The Clinton campaign said in May that Info U.S.A. had been reimbursed to comply with federal campaigning and ethics rules.

After the Clintons left the White House, Gupta hired Bill Clinton as a consultant. It's one of two continuing business relationships he has had since leaving office, and it has been worth $3.3 million, in addition to the options on 100,000 shares of stock.

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The corporate spending on behalf of the Clintons helped fuel a shareholder lawsuit against Gupta and 10 corporate directors.

There are plenty of other allegations in the suit about homes, cars, and a yacht for Gupta. A Delaware chancery court judge dismissed some of the allegations involving the Clintons. But the case is still proceeding. It has led to an informal inquiry by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is also asking if Gupta misspent corporate funds.

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The Clinton campaign said Wednesday that the lists were rented out by her 2006 Senate campaign committee — and that the rentals took place before she began her formal campaign for president last January.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18958566


What do you think of Hillary selling donor names to this spamming company, whose CEO Gupta is under investigation for questionable contribtions and dealings with the Clintons?

PLEASE RECOMMEND SO PEOPLE REALIZE WHAT THEY ARE GETTING FOR IN TERMS OF SPAM IF THEY DONATE TO CLINTON

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