Obama Asks Donors to Help Pay Clinton Debt
By Shailagh Murray
LOS ANGELES -- Two days ahead of his meeting in Washington with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's top donors, Sen. Barack Obama has urged his own biggest givers to help retire her $10 million vendor debt.
Obama used the occasion of a conference call this afternoon to ask members of his national finance team to contribute to the Clinton cause, "if they had the means to do so," a campaign aide said tonight. ABC News first reported on the call.
Clinton ended May more than $22.5 million in debt, with the majority of that money owed to herself. According to campaign finance filings, the vendors the campaign used most heavily including a number of firms run by longtime Clinton loyalists: Denver-based Media Strategies & Research, which bought advertising time; the polling firm Penn, Schoen & Berland; the voter-database firm Catalist; and Grunwald Communications, a media consultant.
She dropped out of the Democratic race in early June, and Obama donors have been seeking cues from his campaign ever since.
Clinton will have a chance to return Obama's favor Thursday night, when she introduces Obama to her most generous supporters at the Mayflower Hotel.
Are you kidding me?? First off I am not a Clinton or Obama supporter (duh - as if there was any question at this point).
So if I understand this correctly, Obama wants HIS supporters to pay for Clintons Campaign Debts much of which her campaign owes HERSELF. It's not like she is hurting for money. The only reason that I can see this happening or making sense is that she is going to be his VP.Sphere: Related Content
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