{"id":5021,"date":"2010-04-29T12:05:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T16:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5021"},"modified":"2010-04-29T12:05:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T16:05:23","slug":"checking-in-on-hillary-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5021\/checking-in-on-hillary-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking in on Hillary Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever wonder how losing presidential campaigns pay off their bills, and keep staff afloat?\u00a0 Well, Kenneth P. Vogel and Laura Rozen at Politico<\/em> provide a detailed summary of how the myriad of organizations connected to Hillary Clinton\u2019s political career are paying down her debts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It can take years for big campaign committees \u2014 particularly presidential ones \u2014 to wind down operations, settle outstanding bills and deal with sometimes costly legal issues, all of which requires committees to keep cash in the bank. Clinton\u2019s campaign finished the presidential race in bad shape, carrying an embarrassing $7.6 million in debt that could have hampered any future political maneuverings.<\/p>\n

But a report filed this month with the FEC shows that at the end of March, Clinton\u2019s presidential campaign had paid back all but $771,000 of that debt (which is still owed to her presidential campaign pollster Mark Penn), and had an impressive $624,000 in the bank, thanks mostly to hefty rental fees paid by No Limits and other groups to rent Clinton\u2019s e-mail list since she became the nation\u2019s top diplomat last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No doubt Clinton\u2019s name recognition and multi-decade career in the national spotlight give her loyalists access to financial resources that few other politicians could tap.\u00a0 Too bad the donors eliminating Clinton\u2019s debt aren\u2019t matching those contributions with extra donations to the Treasury Department to help soften the impact of her boss\u2019s spending spree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever wonder how losing presidential campaigns pay off their bills, and keep staff afloat?\u00a0 Well, Kenneth P. Vogel and Laura Rozen at Politico provide a detailed summary of how the myriad of organizations connected to Hillary Clinton\u2019s political career are paying down her debts. It can take years for big campaign committees \u2014 particularly presidential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1193,59,118],"class_list":["post-5021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-campaign","tag-deficit","tag-hillary-clinton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5021"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5026,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions\/5026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}