Hillary Clinton Returns Wal-Mart Cash

[ProSense]

Hillary Clinton Returns Wal-Mart Cash

Jerry Springer, Teresa Heinz Kerry Give to Clinton, but She Returns Wal-Mart Cash

By DEVLIN BARRETT
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton gathered checks from Hollywood friends, John Kerry's wife and even a former Republican congressman, but records filed Friday show she returned cash from an even older ally Wal-Mart.

Senate records made public Friday detail how Clinton, D-N.Y., raised a whopping $6 million in the last three months of 2005, bringing her campaign cash to $17 million going into her re-election run, in which she has yet to face organized opposition.

Some $1,500 of that money came from Amo Houghton Jr., the former Republican congressman who retired in 2004. Houghton, an heir to the Corning glass company in upstate New York, did not immediately return a call for comment.

The junior senator from New York is also a potential presidential candidate in 2008. She took in plenty of donations from box office stars and political heavyweights, according to paperwork filed with the Federal Election Commission.

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[Radical Activist]

1. That's the first thing she has done in a long time that

I truly respect. Not everyone does that.

[Virginia Dare]

2. Sorry, no dice

Hillary's been a shill for Wal-Mart for a long time:

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0021,harkavy,15052,5.html

[Radical Activist]

3. In Arkansas

Wal-Mart can't be avoided, especially in politics. It was also somewhat less evil when Sam Walton was still running the company.

[catabryna]

4. And, in addition to Bill's presidency...

1992 was also the year Sam Walton died. Perhaps she also knew that the company was getting ready to experience a big change. You can't have dealings with a company like that and not notice the personalities of the persons poised to take over. From everything I've read, it was a different company before old Sam kicked... in fact, being from the western part of the country, I don't recall ever seeing a Walmart back in 1992, let alone knowing such a place existed! My, how times have changed.