Friday, August 31, 2007

Doyle Received Tainted Cash

Interesting.

Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle received $2,000 in campaign donations from a top Democratic fund-raiser who was arrested on a grand theft charge Friday in California.

The Wisconsin Republican Party called on Doyle Friday to return the money given by Norman Hsu in July 2005 prior to the governor’s successful re-election in November 2006.

Doyle’s campaign spokesman Mike Tate said Friday, “We just became aware of this and we are reviewing our records.”

According to a campaign donation database maintained by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, Doyle is the only candidate in Wisconsin to have received money from Hsu.

In 1991, Hsu pleaded no contest to a single felony count of grand theft but failed to appear in court for sentencing, a revelation this week that prompted U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to return $23,000 in contributions that Hsu made to her presidential and senatorial campaigns and to her political action committee.

Hsu turned himself in Friday and was being held on a $2 million bond.

One can’t hold Doyle responsible if his donors are crooks.  It’s not like campaigns do background checks.  The question is: why was this guy donating to Doyle?

(6) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1701 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. Clinton gave the money back within hours of being notified of this guys charges.

    Unlike other Republicans, Tome Felay and mark Green who decided to sue everyone in sight, to keep tainted money. Both lost the money and their careers.

    Campaign cash is a mess. Keeping track of hundreds of thousands of individual donations is not an easy task.

    Being ethical about it, usually is.
    We know where the GOP stands on 527’s and other money laundering scams.
    They invented them and gutted Mc Cain Feingold to keep it that way.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 31, 2007 at 1730 hrs


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    Posted by Steve on August 31, 2007 at 1942 hrs


  3. Goofticket, I’ll explain this really slowly to you…

    Heading into 2004, liberal 527’s outraised conservative organizations at a 2-1 clip.  It wasn’t until the summer of 2004 with the advent of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that conservatives started to close that gap.

    In 2006, it was a horse-a-piece.  Generally, there are better ways than a 527 to skirt campaign finance laws.  Both sides have figured this out.

    You do realize that is was a Republican president that signed McCain-Feingold into law, right???  As far as money laundering scams, the two politicians that the law’s name bears are two of the most egregious manipulators of the system.  I don’t believe for a minute that launder money, but certainly DIDN’T have the public’s best interest in mind when they wrote that law.

    The GOP gutted McCain-Feingold?  Last I checked, the most significant gutting came at the hands of the Supreme Court.  You do read the news, yes?

    And lastly… Mark Green’s career is over?  I’d say he’s just about reached his zenith as being appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Tanzania.  You don’t think he’ll get a job after that?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 31, 2007 at 2104 hrs


  4. I’d say he’s just about reached his zenith as being appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Tanzania.  You don’t think he’ll get a job after that?

    Let me guess, a lobbyist for Tanzania?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 31, 2007 at 2117 hrs


  5. Doyle’s campaign spokesman Mike Tate said Friday, “We just became aware that you are aware of this and we are reviewing our excuses.”

    Fixed that for them.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on September 01, 2007 at 0046 hrs


  6. Gotta love the record keeping at Team Doyle.  It makes you think they have just two machines:  One to throw the slime, the other to cash the checks…

    Posted by Kevin Binversie on September 01, 2007 at 0751 hrs


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