November 22, 2006--Hey Big Spender
$746,450 for catering? If Hillary Clinton spent this much for pizza and sandwiches during her reelection campaign, how can we trust her to balance the federal budget if she is somehow elected president in 2008?
The NY Times reports that she “blew” about $30 million on her virtually uncontested senatorial reelection campaign and as a result depleted her war chest as she gears up for an expected run for the presidential nomination. (Article linked below.)
She raised more money than any other candidate and it was assumed that most of that, unneeded to win a second term, was going to be put in the bank and used to jump start her 2008 campaign. But no, most of what she raised is gone, and she now has only about as much money set aside as John Kerry—he should have spent some of his on getting better joke writers.
A close look at her spending reveals something of an inability to get good value for her money and a certain lack of discipline. She spent an inordinate amount of money on friends who are political consultants when she had a pro bono political genius more or less living at home with her.
Do you think giving Mandy Grunwald $930,000 to advise her about media was money well spent or various sums ranging from $37,5000 to $1.1 million to long time friends for polling and consulting was wise when it was clear from day one that she would get at least two-thirds of the vote? Her opponent, whose name none of us remembers, was the guy who generated his one headline when he said Hillary was “ugly” and spent “millions” on plastic surgery. She needed to spend $30 million plus to “defeat” him?
Do you think that all those folks who contributed $100 or less to her campaign (90 percent of her contributors wrote these kinds of small checks) wanted her to spend $13,169 on flowers?
On the other hand, Corrine Brown, Democrat of Florida spent $24,000 on flowers (most for families of constituents who died) and, to be bipartisan, Republican Richard Pombo of California shelled out $17,250 for balloons for a single event in July.
But then Hillary did host at least one cool event—she spent only $2,500 for a back-room fundraiser at Ben’s Chili Bowl, a well-know Washington, DC hot dog shop. My hundred, I hope, went to that.
The NY Times reports that she “blew” about $30 million on her virtually uncontested senatorial reelection campaign and as a result depleted her war chest as she gears up for an expected run for the presidential nomination. (Article linked below.)
She raised more money than any other candidate and it was assumed that most of that, unneeded to win a second term, was going to be put in the bank and used to jump start her 2008 campaign. But no, most of what she raised is gone, and she now has only about as much money set aside as John Kerry—he should have spent some of his on getting better joke writers.
A close look at her spending reveals something of an inability to get good value for her money and a certain lack of discipline. She spent an inordinate amount of money on friends who are political consultants when she had a pro bono political genius more or less living at home with her.
Do you think giving Mandy Grunwald $930,000 to advise her about media was money well spent or various sums ranging from $37,5000 to $1.1 million to long time friends for polling and consulting was wise when it was clear from day one that she would get at least two-thirds of the vote? Her opponent, whose name none of us remembers, was the guy who generated his one headline when he said Hillary was “ugly” and spent “millions” on plastic surgery. She needed to spend $30 million plus to “defeat” him?
Do you think that all those folks who contributed $100 or less to her campaign (90 percent of her contributors wrote these kinds of small checks) wanted her to spend $13,169 on flowers?
On the other hand, Corrine Brown, Democrat of Florida spent $24,000 on flowers (most for families of constituents who died) and, to be bipartisan, Republican Richard Pombo of California shelled out $17,250 for balloons for a single event in July.
But then Hillary did host at least one cool event—she spent only $2,500 for a back-room fundraiser at Ben’s Chili Bowl, a well-know Washington, DC hot dog shop. My hundred, I hope, went to that.
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