Monosyllabic Pedantry

Friday, January 25, 2008

Clinton Vote-Buying Continues

I wouldn't mind Clinton buying votes so much if she did it with her own money. Instead, she uses taxpayer money to buy votes.

The latest example? Right after she added an earmark to a spending bill that gave $1.5 million to a pastor in Harlem, she conveniently gets an endorcement from that same pastor, carrying heavy weight in the black voting block.

Remember the New Square scandal? Bill Clinton slashed the prison sentences of four men convicted of stealing millions in federal grants. (Effectively pardoning them) The men were from a community of Hasidic Jews in New Square, N.Y., which voted 1,400 to 12 in favor of Hillary Clinton in her first Senate race.

From The Independant:

Hillary is also under fire for her husband's decision to release four Hasidic Jews from a suburban New York community called New Square who were sent to prison for embezzling $40m in government grants and subsidies. The First Lady was present at a meeting in the White House Map Room in December at which two representatives of New Square pressed the commutation case; although there has been no suggestion of money changing hands, critics have been quick to point out that Mrs Clinton won all but 12 of New Square's 1,400 votes in the November Senate election.

Thank goodness she's part of The most Ethical Congress in History.

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