Sunday, March 30, 2008
Hillary Clinton may be vowing to remain in the race until the Democratic convention in Denver in August but vendors and landlords hired by her campaign haven’t been paid, as her cash-strapped organization shifts what little money they have to media buys.
The Clinton campaign has put off paying hundreds of bills for months, earning the campaign a reputation as a deadbeat in some small business circles.
A pair of Ohio companies is owed more than $25,000 by Clinton for staging events for her campaign are warning others in the tight-knit event production community to get their cash upfront when doing business with her. Her campaign, say representatives of the two companies, has stopped returning phone calls and e-mails seeking payment of outstanding invoices. One even got no response from a certified letter.
Their cautionary tales, combined with published reports about similar difficulties faced by a New Hampshire landlord, an Iowa office cleaner and a New York caterer highlight Clinton’s inability to keep up with the staggering fundraising pace set by her opponent for the Democratic presidential nomination, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.
15 Comments
+ at 8:03 am
The problem is that she vastly overpaid her consultants who have done a terrible job, leaving too little money left for her campaign.
+ at 8:22 am
Classy. Screwing the little people, the small business owners who can least absorb loses like the ones mentioned in this article. And as Lib points out, her campaign has no problem paying Mark Penn $5 million a year for his services. Hillary Clinton is a scumbag and I want her out of this race ASAP. She makes me sick to my stomach.
+ at 8:25 am
The Clintons are worth $50 million. Paying the small vendors should be a piece of cake for them. If the Clintons has an ounce of decency in them, paying these people would be a priority.
+ at 8:54 am
I guess Hillary’s populist shtick stops when it comes to paying the vendors her campaign hired along her path to campaign oblivion. What a damned phony.
+ at 9:19 am
These vendors should be honored to be owed money by a great American like HRC, or I’m sure that’s what her consultants keep telling her. Her campaign continually glosses over the fact that even though she raised alot of money last month it is almost entirely for the general election.
+ at 10:15 am
what did she pay that creep Penn – $3 million, so he could come up with this strategy.
and we would trust her with the US budget — oy vey
+ at 10:26 am
I’m missing something. HRC can write her campaign a check for $5 million but she can’t pay some mom and pop vendor $25,000? WTF?
+ at 10:36 am
Ouch! Gosh I’d be really upset if I were one of these small business owners, is there any recourse that they have, except well, support Obama of course? Any way they could get their money back?
+ at 10:40 am
Here is what these vendors and caterers should do. If I were them I would file a lawsuit against her and then go public with it. Imagine the negative press her campaign would receive if the cable news outlets (CNN aside because they worship Hillary Clinton) ran the coverage 24/7? Especially FOX Noise. This could become Hillary’s Jeremiah Wright story.
+ at 1:01 pm
So tacky. I detest Hillary Clinton.
+ at 1:36 pm
I love how Taylor Marsh is hitting up her readers for more green for Hillary. She’s beginning to sound a lot more like a televangelist with every passing day.
+ at 3:02 pm
Really, that’s just tacky. What a slap at the small business person. Isn’t that who Clinton says she is so concerned about? Just a little too
Ms. Walmart Board of Directors.
+ at 3:49 pm
Bitch could auction off some of her pantsuits on eBay to pay her bills.
Somone said, “There’s an idiot born every minute,” and I am sure there are lots of idiots willing to pay big bucks to own one of her outfits.
Personally, I like the idea of suing her ass for recovery.
+ at 4:09 pm
What happened to the Hillbots?
Didn’t Hillaryland chirp about raising $4 million in on-line donations in a single day? What did her supporters send, Monopoly money? I know running for president is expensive but Clinton is blowing through money like Paris Hilton blows through money on new cars.
+ at 5:40 am
Imagine the nerve of Hillary Clinton?
She flies around in a private jet and pays Mark Penn $5 million to spin for her but sticks it to little event organizers and caterers. I wouldn’t do business with this tacky hag under any circumstances.
Hillary Clinton is low life.