by Glenn Thrush
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign manager, Maggie Williams, earned about $200,000 on the board of a Long Island subprime lender that charged prepayment penalties — a practice that Clinton, a critic of the subprime industry, now seeks to eliminate.
Williams, who took over the reins of Clinton’s campaign in early February, served as a director on the board of the Woodbury, N.Y.-based Delta Financial Corp. from April 2000 until the firm declared bankruptcy in December, according to Securities and Exchange Commission records.
She was originally recruited by former New York City Deputy Mayor Bill Lynch, a Delta consultant. Her assignments were to create a new code of “best practices,” and to improve the company’s crisis management operation in the wake of state and federal predatory lending probes that resulted in a $12 million payout to borrowers.
Her hiring coincided with stepped-up Delta outreach efforts in minority communities, where the company made a large number of its loans, an initiative that included parties for homeless children and mortgage seminars in Brooklyn and Queens.
Williams, 53, isn’t the only Clinton insider who made money from an industry the candidate has demonized. A month ago, The Wall Street Journal reported that Clinton ally and former HUD secretary Henry Cisneros grossed more than $5 million in stock sales and board compensation from Countrywide Financial, one of the nation’s largest subprime lenders.
Once a poster child for predatory practices, Delta’s reputation improved substantially until its recent travails, as executives eschewed adjustable-rate mortgages for more stable fixed-rate loans, which have fewer defaults.
To boost revenue in the absence of high-profit adjustable loans, the company charged relatively steep interest rates — 11 percent in 2007 — and levied higher-than-prime-loan closing costs.
And Delta assessed prepayment penalties for borrowers who paid off before their loans matured — a practice Clinton frequently decries on the campaign trail.
“I would eliminate the prepayment penalties that lead to such high rates of default,” Clinton said in a March 24 speech at the University of Pennsylvania. “I would require lenders to take into account the borrower’s ability to pay property taxes and insurance fees when deciding whether to make a loan in the first place.”
Subprime loans come with higher interest rates and are offered to borrowers with poor credit. That lending took off during the housing boom and is one of the underlying causes of the current credit crisis.
Williams downplayed her role at the company, saying, through her assistant, that she served only in “an advisory/oversight capacity.”
In a statement released through Clinton’s campaign, Delta senior vice president Marc Miller said Williams “did not have a role in the day-to-day operations and management.”
Calls to Delta executives, board members and their bankruptcy lawyer weren’t returned. The company’s switchboard and Web site have been deactivated in the last few days.
Williams turned down repeated requests to be interviewed, although her assistant, Amee Patel, provided brief responses to several written questions by e-mail.
Asked if she shared her experiences in the industry with Clinton, Patel responded, “She generally does not discuss her business, board memberships or organizational affiliations with the Senator.”
For her services on the board, Williams was paid around $30,000 per year plus expenses and granted at least 25,000 stock options, according to the SEC.
Records show she was able to cash in some of the options, realizing a profit of about $15,000 during a temporary uptick in Delta’s stock price in July 2007.
“She lost remaining options due to the company bankruptcy,” Patel wrote in an e-mail.
A month later, in August 2007, Delta was hit by a sudden contraction of the credit markets and began a first wave of layoffs. By year’s end, the company had laid off all but 50 of its 1,350 employees after bailout attempts failed and the credit crisis deepened.
Like many African-American leaders, Williams, who served as Hillary Clinton’s top White House adviser from 1993 to 1997, initially had high hopes subprime lending would offer homeowning opportunities to inner-city families long stymied by discriminatory bank practices.
Speaking to Directors & Boards magazine in June 2000, Williams said she excited about offering Delta’s home equity loans to working families trying to move into the middle class.
“There are people who miss payments and have bad credit for all kinds of reasons,” she said. “It is a very middle-American kind of problem, although I believe it does affect poor people disproportionately.”
In the article, Williams said her first tasks were building a new communications operation and learning the ins-and-outs of subprime lending from Hugh Miller, the company’s chief executive.
“Hugh was really my teacher in all of this,” she told the magazine.
If Williams was impressed by the Miller family, others remained skeptical of Delta’s reinvention, with some watchdog groups arguing the company continued to aggressively market high-fee loans to low-income borrowers, driving them deeper into debt.
“There was some improvement after the settlement, but they were still the most aggressive company,” said Matthew Lee, founder of the Bronx-based Fair Finance Watch, a nonprofit that monitors inner-city lending.
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Nothing makes me laugh harder than listening to all of the Republicans on here continue to prop up Clinton.
Clinton is a proven liar who is only staying in the race a little longer to pay off her campaign debts, even the people within her own campaign admit this...but hey, if you've got some spare cash laying around and you want to help Clinton pay off her debts, have at it....HAHAHAHA!!!
Clinton caught lying again, this time about NAFTA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybZT8e8QX40&feature=related
Posted by: Genifer Flowers | March 29, 2008 7:22 PM
[[In a statement released through Clinton’s campaign, Delta senior vice president Marc Miller said Williams “did not have a role in the day-to-day operations and management.”
Calls to Delta executives, board members and their bankruptcy lawyer weren’t returned. The company’s switchboard and Web site have been deactivated in the last few days.
Williams turned down repeated requests to be interviewed, although her assistant, Amee Patel, provided brief responses to several written questions by e-mail.]]
so, let me see if i've got this straight. she was brought in to help the company improve its crisis management, but now that she's at the center of a crisis her response is to stonewall, downplay her role, and issue "brief responses"...via email...through an assistant.
wow! that's pretty special.
when you're interviewing potential campaign managers, wouldn't one of the questions be "is there anything in your recent past that will jump up and bite you on the rear?"
and isn't this the second gaffe at the top of hillary's team?
doesn't matter to me because i had no intention of voting for her. while i wouldn't hang the controversy around hillary's neck, what i do think she is responsible for is the way in which her top people respond to controversy.
if williams felt she was helping the middle class or extending homeownership opportunities to blacks and city folk, then she has nothing to be ashamed of.
if, on the other hand, she was pocketing her stipend and benefitting from stock "upticks" and provided no real oversight, then she should...well, stonewall, downplay and evade.
Posted by: IMHO | March 29, 2008 7:42 PM
Wow, team Clinton is a complete joke.
Clinton has to stay in this race, she has to continue getting campaign donations from her supporters in order to pay off all of the self-made Clinton campaign debts.
Mark J. Penn presents another unbelievable tale from Hillary Clinton: the sequel to Hillary ducks sniper fire in Tuzla, Bosnia
Coming to a superdelegate near you Summer 2008.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBCmKkLdCuA&eurl=http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/28/134518/720/978/486159
Nobel winner: "Hillary Clinton's 'silly' Irish peace claims"
By Toby Harnden in Washington
"Hillary Clinton had no direct role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland and is a "wee bit silly" for exaggerating the part she played, according to Lord Trimble of Lisnagarvey, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former First Minister of the province".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/08/wuspols108.xml
Posted by: Vince Foster lives | March 29, 2008 7:42 PM
Hillary should hire Tom Cruise as her new campaign manager.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3enFIPvnFg
Posted by: Monica Lewinsky | March 29, 2008 7:45 PM
What does that have to do with anything pertinent to this campaign. You people are digging for anything to throw at Hillary, and you aren't even in the race. Are you just trying to match up with Rezko, or Wright. If you would stay out of the fray, Hillary and Obama could concentrate on the real issues that matter to the election instead of always defending themselves against this type of trash reporting. I don't think people are getting tired of the campaign, just tired of this sort of garbage reporting. Let's see if this shows up on your comments.
Posted by: RFB-IL | March 29, 2008 7:54 PM
This mess will be the final straw that breaks Clinton's back. I hope she enjoys her win in PA because it will be her last.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDP_u2YDrFA
Posted by: Paula Jones | March 29, 2008 8:13 PM
SHAME ON YOU HILLARY
SHAME ON YOU
Posted by: democrat | March 29, 2008 8:20 PM
I, like most see HRC as the awful, selfserving,in sincere opportunist that she clearly is,yet even I have to say to this story,SO WHAT.
Posted by: Bandwagon | March 29, 2008 8:23 PM
Why the media keep on looking for "dirty clothes" in Hillary's closet and no one look into Barak Hussein past and present behavior, like his link to
communist elements in this country? He is not a "beauty pageant"
Posted by: Idania Fraginals | March 29, 2008 8:36 PM
So what? Wasting column inches again, huh?
Posted by: Roy | March 29, 2008 9:08 PM
The perfect Hillary campaign song:
"Words"
Missing Persons
Do you hear me?
Do you care?
Do you hear me?
Do you care?
My lips are moving and the sound's coming out
The words are audible but I have my doubts
That you realize what has been said
You look at me as if you're in a daze
It's like the feeling at the end of the page when you realize
You don't know what you just read.
What are words for
When no one listens anymore
What are words for
When no one listens what are words for
When no one listens
There's no use talking at all.
I might as well go up and talk to a wall
Cuz all the words are having no effect at all
It's a funny thing... I said to myself
Something has to happen to change the direction
What little filters though is giving you the wrong impression
"it's a sorry state" am I all alone?
What are words for
When noone listens anymore
What are words for
When noone listens what are words for
When noone listens
There's no use talking at all.
Do you hear me?
Do you care?
Do you hear me?
Do you care?
Let me get by over your dead body
Hope to see you soon
When will I know?
Doors three feet wide with no locks open
Walking always backwards in faces of strangers
Time, time could be my friend
But it's less then nowhere now, nowhere now....
Pursue it any further and another thing you'll find
Not only are they deaf and dumb they could be going blind
noone notices
I think I'll dye my hair blue.
Media overload bombarding you with action
It's getting near impossible to cause distraction
someone answer me.. before I pull the plug.
What are words for
When noone listens anymore
What are words for
When no one listens at all
Posted by: Bud McFarlin | March 29, 2008 9:17 PM
"You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend."
And your advisors...
Posted by: CTA | March 29, 2008 9:21 PM
Did this come from an Obama campaign press release at some point?
Posted by: Eugene Debs | March 29, 2008 9:30 PM
These people probably did nothing illegal, but it does point out how the politically connected float in and out of the money stream. Thus is the nature of the big leagues and why campaigns fight so hard for the nomination. It sure ain't for altruistic reasons. So it seems. Maggie should have learned the chief lesson of the subprime business that if it seems too good to be true it probably isn't. The same can be said of her candidate's white House hopes.
Posted by: GW | March 29, 2008 9:45 PM
Boy...doesn't this just figure. Maybe a cabinet post.
Posted by: Mark | March 29, 2008 9:49 PM
Let us talk about some of Obama advisers. Zbigniew Brazezinski- boasted about the fact he created the whole Afgan movement that produced Osama Bin Ladin, stated it was worth it to fight the soviets. Anthony Lake- main force behind US invasion of Haiti. Sarah Sewall- heads human right center at Harvard, a former defense official, wrote the intro to Gen. Pettraius's Marine corps. counterinsurgency hand book, now used world wide by US troops in various killing operations. Both campaign have their faults.
Posted by: jp,michigan | March 29, 2008 10:09 PM
Obama campaign has taken more money from subprime lenders than Hillary has. Research it. USA Today published the numbers. Obama has received $1.18M from the industry.
Posted by: rojo7449 | March 29, 2008 10:36 PM
McCain guru linked to subprime crisis
The general co-chairman of John McCain’s presidential campaign, former Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas), led the charge in 1999 to repeal a Depression-era banking regulation law that Democrat Barack Obama claimed on Thursday contributed significantly to today’s economic turmoil.
“A regulatory structure set up for banks in the 1930s needed to change because the nature of business had changed,” the Illinois senator running for president said in a New York economic speech. “But by the time [it] was repealed in 1999, the $300 million lobbying effort that drove deregulation was more about facilitating mergers than creating an efficient regulatory framework.”
Gramm’s role in the swift and dramatic recent restructuring of the nation’s investment houses and practices didn’t stop there.
A year after the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act repealed the old regulations, Swiss Bank UBS gobbled up brokerage house Paine Weber. Two years later, Gramm settled in as a vice chairman of UBS’s new investment banking arm.
Later, he became a major player in its government affairs operation. According to federal lobbying disclosure records, Gramm lobbied Congress, the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department about banking and mortgage issues in 2005 and 2006.
During those years, the mortgage industry pressed Congress to roll back strong state rules that sought to stem the rise of predatory tactics used by lenders and brokers to place homeowners in high-cost mortgages.
For his work, Gramm and two other lobbyists collected $750,000 in fees from UBS’s American subsidiary. In the past year, UBS has written down more then $18 billion in exposure to subprime loans and other risky securities and is considering cutting as many as 8,000 jobs.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9246.html
Posted by: Nothing to see here... | March 29, 2008 10:53 PM
The quality and effectiveness of an executive is the directly related to the management team that they assemble. I have dire concerns about the executive effectiveness of Clinton based on the continuing turmoil in her campaign management.
The lack of transparency with her financial records, the need to loan her own campaign millions of dollars, the bullying of Nancy Pelosi and the continuing management team problems does not bode well for Clinton as the Chief Executive of the United States.
The executive office in turmoil will only bring the country more problems than we have today. The lack of executive leadership and skill clearly eliminates Clinton as a candidate.
Posted by: Zermatt | March 29, 2008 11:02 PM
The Clinton campaign is about $5 Million in debt and the people inside the campaign itsself admit that Hillary is already finished but if they quit now the Clinton family would owe a ton of money because they thought when this primary started that Hillary would have the nomination locked up by Feb 5th. Hillary should have fired her campaign manager, Mark Penn, a long time ago, just for being a dumbarse.
The people who still support Hillary with campaign donations are being used by the Clinton's to pay off the Clinton campaign debt.
The Clinton's, just like the Bush's, don't care about the "little people", it's all about them getting power, nothing more, nothing less.
Tuzla, Northern Ireland, NAFTA ... do Hillary Clinton's repeated claims that turn out to be false fit a pattern? Watch this compilation and decide for yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixg4F-qnQvQ
Posted by: Marc Rich | March 29, 2008 11:07 PM
"Let us talk about some of Obama advisers. Zbigniew Brazezinski- boasted about the fact he created the whole Afgan movement that produced Osama Bin Ladin, stated it was worth it to fight the soviets. Anthony Lake- main force behind US invasion of Haiti. Sarah Sewall- heads human right center at Harvard, a former defense official, wrote the intro to Gen. Pettraius's Marine corps. counterinsurgency hand book, now used world wide by US troops in various killing operations. Both campaign have their faults."
None of these people are at the level of Campaign Manager (in fact two are merely supporters and not actively involved in the campaign). There is no way Hillary was unaware of Maggie's previous role with the sub-prime mess. But in usual Hillary manner she is able to ignore it and convince herself that the American public are too stupid to figure it out. Kind of like she thought no one would have the nerve to call her on her Bosnia fantasy.
Posted by: LRoethler | March 29, 2008 11:25 PM
Although I admit hillary has run her campaign in a somewhat deceitful manner, Us democrats must all come together after the primaries. Do not let these far right republicans turn us against each other!!! people like Sean Hannity, Bill oreily, Pat buchanon, joe scarboro, and last but not least, rush limbaugh. They are not our friends and will turn on all hillary people in a heart beat. They are playing the dems and playing mind games. Wake up people, before it is to late and we are in iraq for 100 more years.
Posted by: mike | March 30, 2008 12:05 AM
Idania Fraginals - Fist please proof read your blog response before you respond .. it's embarrassing. Second, see below :
"ou don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend."
And your advisors...
What's that she said? Ah yes, how about those advisors? Didn't she say that there needed to be a Moratorium
on foreclosures ... perhaps she needs to place a Moratorium
on her campaign manager.
Posted by: Cynthia | March 30, 2008 12:09 AM
What's so important about this is that the candidate and campaign manager are at opposite ends of the spectrum. And, questions will now arise about Maggie's financial benefit from the company while thousands of homeowners lost their homes.
Choose your campaign manager's wisely. Obviously Hillary didn't. Of course, all we had to do was look at Mark Penn to make that realization.
Posted by: Suzanne | March 30, 2008 12:26 AM
Nothing better to see than you liberals fighting it out over two non-electable liberals for many more months to come.
God Bless America!
Paulo
Posted by: Paulo | March 30, 2008 12:59 AM
Why are you picking on poor Ms. Williams.
After all she learned from the master. Hill was on Walmart's board.
The Clintons didn't cash out on that til 2007.
Now Ms. Williams, not being married to a governor can't expect the same perks, but a girl's gotta start somewhere.
Posted by: Miriam | March 30, 2008 1:23 AM
Maggie Williams. The slave who showed the slave hunters where to hunt for more slaves. And made money off the slaves too. Hillary for bathroom attendant if she keeps this up.
Posted by: kravitz | March 30, 2008 1:27 AM
I think Maggie Williams is the best. And I will vote for Hillary!
Posted by: Chas | March 30, 2008 2:47 AM
I heard Clinton is still in the race to get donations to pay off her Campaign debt. Game over.
Posted by: Gail | March 30, 2008 8:14 AM
Both Clinton and Obama are without a doubt the weakest candidates the Democrats have ever foisted onto the American public. Both represent fringe voters who do not decide elections. The electoral college will be the biggest landslide since McGovern/Nixon.Obama may hve the black vote in his pocket,but not white men who will decide this election. Unless Obama states he will protect and defend the nation during some of the most dangerous times in world history,he will lose.
Posted by: KLB | March 30, 2008 8:16 AM
Ameriquest's Board must be very diverse.
Another board member, Deval Patrick, Obama pal and wordsmith "just words"
One of first actions on being elected Gov of MA was to call Wall St and ask them to go easy on Ameriquest.
He shopped the same sort of BS as Obama and the citizens of MA have now seen it was all words.
No chance he will be re-elected so is desperately seeking another good job in Washington via Obama.
Posted by: Max | March 30, 2008 8:25 AM
Hillary "Hypocrisy" Clinton
Do these revelations even surprise us anymore? The surprising thing is that there are still people who support her.
Posted by: Kevin | March 30, 2008 9:07 AM
You can also choose your president? Hillary often boasts that she would not meet with her enmies, however, in an attempt to divert attention away from Bosnia she sat down with Richard Mellon Scaife, her arch enemy and personal persecutor, the very same Richard Mellon Scaife, who during her White House years accused her of the murder of Vince Foster and said that Bill and she had committed 60 murders to hide their crimes, in an ill-advised and ill-timed manner to re-introduce the Rev. Wright issue -- by the way, the very Rev. Wright that they Invited to the White House.
Posted by: Angellight | March 30, 2008 9:09 AM
Obama's David Axlerod is the biggest Illinois/Cook County/Chicago political insider. I can't wait to see what they dig up about him soon.
Posted by: MinisterP | March 30, 2008 9:57 AM
Wrong RFB-IL, what we're sick of are candidates who will associate with anyone that can help them get elected, that support anti-american 'preachers', that believe they can say anything to get nominated and then will 'pivot' to make themselves more electable to the general, non communist, non-liberal Americans.
Yes, both Clinton and Obama are guilty of it. Just look at their own words over time.
Posted by: billary hussein obama | March 30, 2008 10:03 AM
billary hussein obama,
I like your spin. Are you the same guy who denounces the pastors every time they blame gays, etc., for our recent woes (i.e. 9/11 and Katrina)?
No, I didn't think so. But don't worry. You're not the only hypocrite.
The Republican party and some of the same Democrats who are now blasting Rev. Wright didn't say "boo" when conservative pastors were suggesting that God was... what's the word..., "damning," yeah, that sounds right, America because of gays, abortion rights, higher taxes, social programs and not giving enough to the pastors themselves every Sunday.
You guys crack me up.
Rev. Wright isn't the first preacher who suggested God was "damning" America. But he is the first pastor of a serious candidate for the presidency who happens to be a darker shade of pale.
Posted by: Bud McFarlin | March 30, 2008 10:58 AM
We hear much about the 'Republican hate machine' and the distinguished Sen. Clinton is our main source for the latest on the 'vast right wing conspiracy', but even you democrats have to concede that neither of them can hold a candle to the democrats when they start digging at each other. This is choice - NOONE can make this up.
Posted by: Terry | March 30, 2008 12:27 PM
billary h. o.. You're right about the candidates we're sick of. I hope you know that McCain is included in that group.
The real problem here is how she picks personnel. Do these people possess qualities she admires or does she just have poor judgment.
Posted by: Janice Cohen | March 30, 2008 12:44 PM
I can't support Hillary Clinton anymore. Long Island is my home. This woman messed with my home. I'm quite sorry that the NY primary has passed, and that I can't retro-actively change my vote to Barack Obama
Posted by: Brian | March 30, 2008 12:53 PM
Politics as usual. So what if Hillary's top staff member is a robber baron; we have had many in our history of presidents, even to this day (can you say Halliburton?).
Just another reason why the average Joe or jane cannot be president. Average people do not know how to "legally" rob and steal from hard working Americans who do not have law degrees or are members of the "elite".
Hillary is as shameless as Bush and Cheney. Even worse, because she is trying to sell herself as a champion of working men and women. What a sham! Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton.... please break the cycle.
Posted by: Liz | March 30, 2008 1:28 PM
And then there's John McCain campaign co-chairman Phil Gramm, very much involved in dismantling the regulations:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9246.html
Can we PLEASE stop swinging from pillar to post and not wait until we're in thte middle of a total disaster before figuring out that yeah, some regulation is ACTUALLY NEEDED?!
You IDIOTS thought Ivan Boesky was absolutely brilliant when he preached "greed is good!" to graduating MBAs (among others) - and now WE'RE the ones paying for your stupidity!
I want some responsible adults in charge, and apparently that means Obama and NO 'NEW' REPUBLICANS. They have a lot nerve calling others 'RINOs'. They're destroying this country while they wave their flags around. Like that makes everything okay.
Posted by: Tom J | March 30, 2008 3:07 PM
"Thanks for the help, Maggie!"
I am sure that is the cry from all of those packing their belonging in foreclosed homes with their above average closing costs and penalites issued by Delta.
Sometimes the devil one knows is not better than the angel you've never met...rather the person remains just that; the devil!!!
Posted by: Anikay | March 30, 2008 3:29 PM
What was Maggie Williams supposed to do when the Clinton's left the White House? She had to earn a living and, as she was just an aide to the First Lady, she wasn't going to be offered a lucrative sinecure
with a DC lobbying group, a position with a major bank like Cisneros or a million dollar book deal. She took what she could get and if that meant being used as a piece of decoration for a subprime lender well, it is better than nothing.
Posted by: sangell | March 30, 2008 4:35 PM
It is hopeless to say "Shame on you, Hillary." Hillary is shame-less. She is lying, manipulative, cold, calculating, ambitious, power- and wealth-obsessed, but shameful? No way is that possible.
Posted by: shirl | March 30, 2008 5:02 PM
Hillary is still the best canditate! Obama is racist!!
Posted by: Anonymous | March 30, 2008 5:41 PM
Please hate mongers! Simply put, the combined IQ on this blog is probably around 25!!
Go Hillary!
Posted by: osbourne black | March 30, 2008 5:44 PM
SHAME ON YOU HRC!
Posted by: 08Howard | March 30, 2008 7:34 PM
"Please hate mongers! Simply put, the combined IQ on this blog is probably around 25!!
Go Hillary!"
And I assume since you posted this, you are one?
How can anyone above the mentioned IQ vote for Hillary? Oh yeah, the deals....
Posted by: Nancy | March 30, 2008 8:32 PM
I understand that Chelsea Clinton works or worked for some sort of subprime outfit. If Siegelman can be railroaded into prison for doing nothing, there must be something in the Clintons' past that leads to legal vulnerability. Pre 1992 they were fully vetted. It may be that post 2001, as a result of growing hubris and influence, they've done unsavoury stuff.
Posted by: John P. Teschke | March 30, 2008 9:56 PM
Did Maggie Williams learn her former trade from Neil Bush?
Posted by: Vivian | March 30, 2008 10:44 PM
Maggie Williams is not a candidate running for President, and she did not control Delta Financial Corporation policy on penalties for paying for loans early. That is a reprehensible policy, and Delta should be the object of scorn. Maggie was chosen as a campaign manager for Hillary because of her loyalty and abilities from the White House days. Hillary Clinton wants to pass legislation that will abolish the usury and loan sharky policies of the banking industry taking advantage of people from mortagages and credit cards to student loans. Hillary, you have my vote!
Posted by: Linda | March 30, 2008 11:29 PM
I think Maggie Williams is the best. And I will vote for Hillary!
Posted by: Chas | March 30, 2008 2:47 AM
Where do they grow you? That is without a doubt the most stupid post I have ever read on here. JEEZ!
Posted by: Jim Griffin | March 30, 2008 11:30 PM
So "Williams downplayed her role at the company". No single raindrop thinks it is responsible for the flood. Personal responsability is on vacation in our leadership.
Posted by: Illinois CPA | March 31, 2008 12:20 AM
Clinton backers are going to feel really used if Hillary is just staying in it to pay the bills. How does Senator Sniper Fire expect to compete with a war hero?
Posted by: Chris336 | March 31, 2008 12:51 AM
Dear Rojo 7449:
get your facts straight, b/c your figures are wrong:
However, according to the Open Secrets data (which is current up to March 20, 2008), Hillary Clinton received $1,332,720 from employees of these companies whereas Barack Obama received only $1,174,212 -- which means that Clinton received $158,508 more than Obama! Not only that, if we were to use the numbers that the Clinton memo claims, she received even more: $199,716.
Posted by: 1028jenn | March 31, 2008 1:40 AM
This is petty politics! If we are going down this path then let's vet both McCain and Obama. I am sure that we will find that they all have the same issue. They are all politicians, aren't they? at least Clinton and Clinton don't try to hide that fact. Obama pretends to be 'new politics' when he is as old as the rest.
Posted by: vote4thebest | March 31, 2008 3:58 AM
If Hillary wins, will she allow Bill to sleep in the White House & have an affair with another woman again other than her? HUH? EH?
Posted by: taitoirlwk | March 31, 2008 5:50 PM
The Williams headline was the first article to hit the news. Cisneros is simply a friend, or ally, but between the two articles people are beginning to wonder about Clinton’s sincerity.
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Posted by: maria008 | September 30, 2008 1:04 AM