rssTough Day Ahead for Clinton Camp
Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 8:14 am
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<p>The trouble starts with a big New York Times front-page <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31donor.html?hp" title="account" id="dwx9">account</a> of Bill Clinton’s involvement with Frank Giustra, a Canadian financier who, it seems, used his ties to the former president to boost his mining business in Kazakhstan — and then made healthy donations to Clinton’s foundation.</p>
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Then there’s an ABC News <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4218509&page=1">look</a> at Hillary Clinton’s time on the board of Wal-Mart.</p>
<blockquote>An ABC News analysis of the videotapes of at least four stockholder meetings where Clinton appeared shows she never once rose to defend the role of American labor unions.</blockquote>
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Not what you want with just days to go until Super Tuesday – and all those union-friendly Edwards votes up for grabs.</p>
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Comment posted January 31, 2008 @ 9:32 am
According to Sam Walton, Hillary was a very stubborn and insistent voice on the board to increase women’s role in the company; she was the one that pushed for Made in the USA for Wal-Mart and finally when the company didn’t live up to her standards she left the board. Sounds like a pretty good record to me.
If you remember that this was early 80′s and most people ‘s eyes had turned to making a "dynasty lifestyle" a la Reagan, and women’s issues as well as made in the USA were backburner items.
Comment posted January 31, 2008 @ 9:14 am
It s not that he "boosted" this guys business, the guy was a bit player who suddenly became a primary mover in the business, and the "healthy" donation was really astronomical- but was it all legal or not?
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