Several of Hillary Clinton’s large-sum donors have now hopped onto Barack Obama’s armored truck — not just by giving merely the $2,300 individual maximum to the Illinois senator’s presidential campaign.
Instead, they’re shelling over far more to a special Democratic account that’ll be able to spend unlimited sums to help Obama in the fall, according to a Los Angeles Times analysis by Dan Morain.
However, it wasn’t a two-way street last month. Obama’s donors gave Clinton a mere $105,000 in June, despite a plea from Obama that his high-roller donors help retire her $22 million in campaign debts.
In June, Clinton donors gave $1.53 million to the Obama Victory Fund, established by Obama and the Democratic Party to raise money far in excess of the $2,300 that individuals can give to a presidential candidate. By law, the fund can receive high five-figure checks and divvy them up among various other Obama-related committees.
And another thing, why were the Clinton’s not used to try and counter the lame attacks by McCain during Obama’s overseas visit?