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Welcome, Maggie Williams
January 08, 2008 8:46 PM
ABC News' Kate Snow reports that Maggie Williams, the former chief of staff for then-First Lady Hillary Clinton, will take control of Clinton's presidential campaign.
Not to cast aspersions at what I'm sure will prove to be an astute hire....but I can't be the only one who remembers that Williams had a role in those late-90s campaign finance scandals.
She's the one who took the $50,000 donation from Johnny Chung. And Chung claimed she solicited the contribution at the White House (which the White House denied.)
Moreover, last November, Williams was cited in a New York Times story about the huge figure -- $30 million -- Clinton spent on being re-elected to the US Senate while facing nominal opposition. Many donors were concerned that the campaign had become a way for consultants to become wealthy.
Wrote the Times: "A close friend of Mrs. Clinton, Maggie Williams, received a $37,500 consulting fee, paid to her firm, Griffin Williams Critical Point Management, at the end of July.
"Asked what the payment was for, Mrs. Clinton's campaign aides checked and subsequently responded that the payment had been a mistake. They said it should have been for less than $5,000 to reimburse Ms. Williams, who served as chief of staff to Mrs. Clinton in the White House, for travel costs. They said Ms. Williams would return the extra money. Ms. Williams, who was said by Mrs. Clinton's aides to be traveling, did not return a call to her office."
Ahhhh.......CHANGE!
-- jpt
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Very interesting indeed. I'd love to see a side by side compare of Obama and Clinton, and who is beholden to whom by way of special interest.
Posted by: cordelia525 | Jan 9, 2008 8:52:53 AM
Wonder when you so called reporters will do anything but bash Hillary in mass in some psycopathic mass seizure. Please tell me what the Clintons did that was so damn terrible to you.. a good economy and no long wars.. gosh now I understand the bashing. Course I remember how you guys also had the great judgement to trashed Al Gore and slobbered over Bush. I guess it's whoever pals up to you guys in the busses. That's all that matters to you. Whoever makes your egos feel good.
Posted by: JoAnne O'Brian | Jan 9, 2008 2:19:56 AM
Maggie Williams being the token female figurehead for the campaign of course.
AHHHHHHH,......more change.
Posted by: GEO | Jan 9, 2008 12:52:51 AM
Don't forget the change to Carville and Bagala.
AHHHHH,....... more change.
Posted by: GEO | Jan 9, 2008 12:50:13 AM
Good pick-up, Jake.
Posted by: reyonthehill | Jan 8, 2008 9:21:39 PM
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