Clinton’s Gold Rush: $18 million raised on three-day swing
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. >> Hillary Clinton mingled with Hall of Fame basketball player Magic Johnson and Apple CEO Tim Cook, vamped in a photo booth with actor Justin Timberlake and dined with some of California’s richest families on what was likely the most lucrative fundraising swing of her presidential campaign.
The Democratic presidential candidate raised $18 million on a three-day trip through California, or roughly $270,000 an hour.
The visit to the West Coast comes amid a prosperous August for Clinton’s campaign, with the candidate and her surrogates hosting at least 54 events over the final two weeks of the month, according to a fundraising schedule obtained by The Associated Press. A weekend trip to Cape Cod featured stops at seaside estates and a Sunday “summer celebration” with the pop star Cher.
Clinton is trying to use the relatively quiet month of August, when voters are more focused on vacation than politics, to fill her campaign war chest.
In the Golden State, many of her events were at well-worn stops on the Democratic money trail. In Los Angeles, she stopped by Johnson’s Beverly Hills compound, where she spoke to the 500 supporters gathered outside.
Then she headed a few house down the street to entertainment executive Haim Saban’s sprawling property, where she was feted at a 100-person dinner on grounds that included some of Saban’s lighted animal-shaped topiary. The price of admission: $50,000 a plate.
President Barack Obama had visited the same homes in 2013. But unlike Obama, who allows reporters to observe some of his opening remarks to donors, Clinton leaves the press waiting outside in vans and guesthouses, giving no hints at what she might be telling some of the country’s most powerful people.
Behind closed doors, Clinton soothed the worries and answered the questions of some of her most ardent backers.
At an intimate Bay Area dinner for 30, one donor asked about “healthers,” likening the unfounded rumors about Clinton’s health to the so-called birthers who questioned Obama’s birthplace.
Outside the Piedmont mansion, a crowd of children and their parents waited over two hours for Clinton, chanting her name in the chilly night air.
Clinton emerged from the home and, for about a few brief moments, campaigned. She made her way down the hastily assembled police line, shaking hands, snapping selfies and admiring the homemade signs.
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I’m bet it didn’t come from small donors.
No, it sure didn’t. Usually democrats are crowing to anyone who will listen about the majority of their donations coming from small donors. Just ask the quickly forgotten “Summer Home” Bernie Sanders. Not so with the Clinton Crime Family. The money comes from people who have “won life’s lottery” to paraphrase democrats when they speak of wealthy republicans. These very rich donors don’t know or care about the struggles that middle class working families endure. But rest assured they like the color of your tax dollars. Where is little Barry now whining about income inequality like he used to do so frequently. Face it folks the rich and powerful are using you as a doormat and many of you (clueless Hillary defenders who regularly post here) are thanking them for the privilege.
Put a chip in Hillary and give the tracker to someone who cares, good-luck finding someone.
18 million, so that’s about 50,000 to charity 7 million nine hundred and fifty thousand to campaign ads and the other 10 million to the Clinton foundation, what a lot of foolish donors who don’t know where there money that they donated is going.
Don’t forget her attorneys fees. She can open her own law firm. Maybe that’s the 700 people she has on her staff.
Everyone knows that money is going to a bigger bus to roll Huma and Cheryl under. Combine it with hush money and legal fees and you got yourself a nice little “donation.” Don’t forget to check the front seat for classified docs.
Time to get out Lincoln’s Gettysburg address and update it for 2016, more specifically the final passage: that this nation, under Hillary, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the Clintons, by the Clintons and for the Clintons shall not perish from the earth.
Clingons, let’s get out there and push. Crooked Mama needs money for her legal defense. Sell your boat, cars, household furnishings and send cash, check, credit card. Euros, Swiss francs, Yen, are accepted.
Jake Sullivan, hiLIARy’s Foreign Policy adviser in 2011, researched drugs for Alzheimers and Parkinsons for her. Money cannot buy good Health…she has a serious health issues.
Crooked Hilliary,
Stop blaming Trump for your self inflicted transgressions.
Ryan Lochte lost his sponsorships because he lied.Crooked Hilliary gets pass after pass. Have the clingons lost their senses?
Apparently the printing company has provided her with a LIFETIME supply of passes for unnamed favors down the road. You won’t find the e-mail exchange because it’s been wiped clean with Bleachbit. Bleachbit has been Clinton tested and approved.
Good housekeeping seal of approval. It’s so obvious what she did but Obama is in on it too. They are all in and Trump has to call them.
At least she doesn’t have to raise the rent to his own campaign for the use of his Chump tower offices. He is so desperate for money that he is using every dirty trick in the book. Hillary is surrounded by a support group that will vote for her because simply put, she is the safer choice.
Why!
I guess today’s moderator is a Chump supporter.
Kind of interesting that my comment is the first from a Clinton supporter. My comment ispretty tame compared to others on this page.
She’s bought by big doners. She’s only safer for them
18 million is peanuts.
As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions from 2009 to 2013, Canadian records show, a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One’s chairman used his family foundation to make four donations totaling $2.35 million. Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons, despite an agreement Mrs. Clinton had struck with the Obama White House to publicly identify all donors. Other people with ties to the company made donations as well.
Shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.
Lock her up.
Hillary Clinton’s lawyers used a special tool to delete emails from her personal server so that “even God can’t read them,” House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy said on Thursday.
Gowdy (R-S.C.) said the use of BleachBit, computer software whose website advertises that it can “prevent recovery” of files, is further proof that Clinton had something to hide in deleting personal emails from the private email system she used during her tenure as secretary of state.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/hillary-clinton-emails-bleachbit-227425#ixzz4ISLAkha7
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