Clinton fundraiser criticized
Posted: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 3:10 PM by Mark Murray
From NBC's Mark Murray
Edwards adviser Joe Trippi sent this email today: "If you want to know why we need change in Washington -- and I mean real change, not just trading corporate Republican insiders with corporate Democratic insiders -- then just look at
Senator Clinton's schedule for today. Today at noon, Hillary Clinton will be hosting a fundraiser in Washington, D.C. for a select group of lobbyists with an interest in homeland security."
More from Trippi: "Tickets for the Clinton fundraiser are $1,000 a ticket and $25,000 per bundler. And for that money you get more than a meal -- you get to attend one-hour breakout sessions in four different areas of homeland security that will include House Committee Chairs and members of Congress who sit on the very committees that will be voting on homeland security legislation."
The Trippi makes a fundraising pitch of his own: "You may not have $1,000, but your $25, $50 or $100 contribution today ... can send a powerful message to all of Washington that the days of trading special interest contributions for government access are numbered."
Asked for comment, a Clinton campaign spokesman tells First Read, "Repeated negative attacks against other Democrats is not going to end the war in Iraq, deliver universal health care, or turn around John Edwards flagging campaign."
And it doesn't stop there. Trippi just released another statement about this: “Senator Clinton’s fundraising event today serves as the poster child for what is wrong with Washington and why we need big change to put Washington back on the side of regular Americans. Whether Senator Clinton’s campaign realizes it or not, the truth is there aren’t many Americans who believe it is okay to take money from lobbyists and then sit them down with the chairs of the very committees that they seek to influence. That no one in the Clinton campaign --including the candidate -- found anything wrong with holding this fundraiser is an indication of just how bad things have gotten in Washington."
Here's the invite to the Clinton fundraiser.
