Spree (Susan) published a post yesterday about an important Democratic fundraiser named Norman Hsu. Hsu started raising money for Democrats three years back or so, and quickly became one of the best fundraisers the Democrats had. He was one of a few fundraisers who were able (and are able) to raise $1 million dollars, which is quite an accomplishment considering that an individual is allowed to give a mere $4600 dollars.
There was just one problem: Hsu was [is] a fugitive.
At first, the Clinton campaign refused to give the money back Hsu raised, but after a short while Hillary seemingly changed her opinion. Republicans are, of course, going to have a field day with this, but I do not quite understand how people can blame Clinton for what Hsu did. As far as I know, it is not expected of candidates to check whether those who donate money to them have a criminal history / record. Once she found out, she should have cut all ties with him and should have returned the money, of course, but how one can blame her for being duped by Hsu is beyond me.
And so, we again talk about things that are actually quite irrelevant and nothing more than “the issue of the day” instead of actual policies.
It always works, doesn’t it?
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