the donations from:
JPMorgan Chase & Co $316,892
Lehman Brothers $302,697
National Amusements Inc $293,022
Citigroup Inc $290,146
University of California $275,046
Sidley Austin LLP $271,857
Harvard University $264,941
Google Inc $259,010
Skadden, Arps et al $248,743
Exelon Corp $227,661
Morgan Stanley $225,976
Time Warner $221,878
----- Original Message ----
From: Rob Harrington <Eamon1916@yahoo.com>
To: Dems2008@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 9:37:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Dems2008] Hillary's creditors warning others of doing business with her
A> What is your source for that info...
B> What does that have to do with Hillary not paying her bills?
Slainte,
Rob Harrington
----- Original Message ----
From: Edward Hochman <whovian7_2000@Yahoo.com>
To: Dems2008@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 9:32:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Dems2008] Hillary's creditors warning others of doing business with her
Barack is beholden to no special interest. Read on:
BARACK OBAMA (D)
Top Contributors
Goldman Sachs $522,228
UBS AG $327,302
JPMorgan Chase & Co $316,892
Lehman Brothers $302,697
National Amusements Inc $293,022
Citigroup Inc $290,146
University of California $275,046
Sidley Austin LLP $271,857
Harvard University $264,941
Google Inc $259,010
Skadden, Arps et al $248,743
Exelon Corp $227,661
Morgan Stanley $225,976
Time Warner $221,878
Jones Day $212,525
Latham & Watkins $187,208
Kirkland & Ellis $181,976
University of Chicago $179,147
Citadel Investment Group $175,900
Microsoft Corp $167,990
Percent of Contributions Coded:
(How to read this chart / methodology)
Coded$76,828,437(66%)
Uncoded$40,156,233(34%)
Total$116,984,670
----- Original Message ----
From: Rob Harrington <Eamon1916@yahoo.com>
To: Dems2008@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 9:03:30 AM
Subject: [Dems2008] Hillary's creditors warning others of doing business with her
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9259.html
Hillary Rodham Clinton'scash-strapped presidential campaign has been putting off payinghundreds of bills for months — freeing up cash for critical media buys,but also earning the campaign a reputation as something of a deadbeatin some small business circles.
A pair of Ohio companiesowed more than $25,000 by Clinton for staging events for her campaignare warning others in the tight-knit event production community — andanyone else who will listen — to get their cash upfront when doingbusiness with her. Her campaign, say representatives of the twocompanies, has stopped returning phone calls and e-mails seekingpayment of outstanding invoices. One even got no response from acertified letter.
Their cautionary tales, combined with published reports about similar difficulties faced by a New Hampshire landlord, an Iowa office cleaner and a New Yorkcaterer highlight a less-obvious impact of Clinton's inability to keepup with the staggering fundraising pace set by her opponent for theDemocratic presidential nomination, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.
Clinton's campaign did not respond to recent, specific questions aboutits transactions with vendors. But Clinton spokesman Jay Carson pointedon Saturdayto an earlier statement the campaign issued to Politico, asserting:"The campaign pays its bills regularly and in the normal course ofbusiness, and pays all of its bills."
Just like with otherbusinesses, it's common for campaigns to carry unpaid bills frommonth-to-month, but in Clinton's case it also could serve a strategicpurpose.
The New York senator's presidential campaign ended February with $38 million in the bank, according to a report filed last week with the Federal Election Commission, but only $16 million of that can be spent on her battle with Obama.
Therest can only be spent in the general election, if she makes it thatfar, and must be returned if she doesn't. If she had paid off the $8.7million in unpaid bills she reported as debt and had not loaned hercampaign $5 million, the cash she would have had available at the endof last month to spend on television ads and other up-front expenseswould have been less than $2 million.
By contrast, if yousubtract Obama's $625,000 in debts and his general election-only moneyfrom his total cash on hand at the end of last month, he'd still beleft with $31 million.
The presidential campaign of presumptive Republican nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain,reported $4.3 million in debt at the end of February, but only $1.3million of that was in the form of unpaid bills to a dozen vendors. Therest was a bank loan, which the campaign says it paid off last week.
It's not just the size of Clinton's debts that's noteworthy. It's alsothat her unpaid bills extend beyond the realm of high-pricedconsultants who typically let bills slide as part of the cost of doingbusiness with powerful clientele whose success is linked to their own.
Some of Clinton's biggest debts are to pollster and chief strategistMark Penn, who's owed $2.5 million; direct mail company MSHC Partners,which is owed $807,000; phone-banking firm Spoken Hub, which is waitingfor $771,000; and ad maker Mandy Grunwald, who's owed $467,000.
Clinton also reported debts more than one month old to a slew ofapolitical businesses and organizations, large and small, in the statesthrough which this historically expensive Democratic primary campaignhas raged.
She owed Iowa's Sioux City Art Center Board of Trustees $3,500 for catering and venue costs, New Hampshire's Winnacunnet Cooperative School District $4,400 in event costs, Qwest$24,000 for phone service, various branches of the Iowa-basedsupermarket chain Hy-Vee $15,000 for food, beverages and catering and$7,700 to Ohio and Massachusetts branches of the theatrical stage employees' union for equipment costs.
In fact, about a third of the nearly 700 individual debts Clintonreported at the end of February were for various types of "eventexpenses," including $319,000 for catering and venue costs, $420,000for equipment, $11,000 for photography and $9,000 for security.
Event production is important to big-time presidential campaigns. Itshapes how candidates look and sound, not just to the thousands ofpeople who turn out to campaign speeches and rallies, but also to themillions who catch snippets of them on television.
And wordis getting around that Clinton's campaign does not promptly pay thosewho labor to make her events look good, said an employee of the eventproduction company Forty Two of Youngstown, Ohio.
"I feel insulted by the way that the campaign treated this company andtreated us personally," said the employee, who did not want to be namedtalking about a client.
The Clinton campaign paid thecompany $16,500 to set up a stage, press riser, sound system andbackdrops at a Youngstown high school last month for a raucous unionrally, where an aggressive Clinton stump speech drew thunderousapplause. But the Clinton campaign has yet to pay Forty Two for twoother February events and the employee said the campaign has stoppedreturning phone calls, e-mails and didn't respond to a certifiedletter.
"We worked very hard to put together these events ona moment's notice and do absolutely everything to a 't' to make it lookperfect on television for her and for her campaign," said the employee."Sen. Clinton talks about helping working families, people in unionsand small businesses. But when it comes down to actually doingsomething that shows that she can back up her words with action, shefails."
Forty Two also has done events for Obama's campaign,which has paid its bills promptly, according to the employee. FECrecords show Obama's campaign paid the company $18,500.
ShowTyme Exhibits, another Youngstown event production company, hasproduced political events for years and had never had problems gettingpaid before Clinton, according to owner Jim Phillips.
Hesaid he's still waiting for a payment for setting up the sound systemand stage for Clinton's February tour of a General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio.
"It was only $607, but I'm a small guy; I could use that," saidPhillips, adding, "Everyone I can tell, I do tell about it. You tellsomebody something bad about somebody, they tell ten other people."
Both Phillips and the Forty Two employee said they voted for Clinton in Ohio's March 4 primary, which she won handily, but regret their votes and are reluctant to work for her campaign again.
Their sentiments aren't universal in the event production world, though.
At the end of January, Clinton owed $38,000 to ACS Sound and Lightingof Columbia, S.C. But the company was paid in full last month and isplanning to do events for Clinton in other states, according to managerTroy Gwin.
"We don't have any problem with them," he said."I'd continue to do business after the primaries if she is the nominee.I would love to."
And Tony Galarza, director of the Missoula, Mont. branch of a national event production company, remained committed to staging an April 6 Clinton fundraising brunch at a local hotel even after a colleague in his company e-mailed a list of Clinton's campaign debts.
Galarza said he's confident Clinton will pay his company, but admittedhe was surprised to see so many event production companies among thecampaign's creditors.
"Once I looked at those numbers, Irealized how important to our economy nationally these elections are,"he said. "Just the sheer numbers listed there were immense."
Slainte,
Rob Harrington
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