{"id":196,"date":"2008-07-15T07:43:52","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T15:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=196"},"modified":"2009-09-23T20:53:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T04:53:47","slug":"conscripted-campaign-contributors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Conscripted Campaign Contributors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 1em ; padding-left: 2em ; padding-bottom: 0 ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2008\/politics\/hillary-clinton-asks-if-she-can-keep-donor-money-2012\"><q>Hillary Clinton Asks To Keep Donor Money for 2012<\/q> by Jason Horowitz of <cite>the New York Observer<\/cite><\/a> <blockquote style=\"font-size: smaller ;\">Hillary Clinton's campaign is sending out letters to donors asking permission to roll a $2,300 contribution to Clinton's 2008 general election coffers to her 2012 senate election fund instead of offering a refund.<\/blockquote><\/div> <p>Famously, <abbr title=\"Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton\">HDRC<\/abbr> has a large campaign <em>debt<\/em>, which she and her husband are demanding Obama help retire.  I'm not sure, then, how it is that she would be in a position to offer <em>refunds<\/em>.  In any event, she is asking that money which would otherwise be refunded be contributed towards her 2012 Senate campaign, <em>instead<\/em> of being used to retire her debt.<\/p> <p>It isn't really plausible that <abbr title=\"Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton\">HDRC<\/abbr> will pay-off her Presidential campaign debts in-full; instead, creditors will receive pennies-on-the-dollar, with the Clintons representing such settlements <em>as-if<\/em> they are payment in-full.  If the Clintons channel monies that could have gone to the repayment of debt instead to her 2012 Senate campaign, then those creditors will <em>in effect<\/em> have been <em>compelled<\/em> to contribute towards that Senate campaign.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton Asks To Keep Donor Money for 2012 by Jason Horowitz of the New York Observer Hillary Clinton's campaign is sending out letters to donors asking permission to roll a $2,300 contribution to Clinton's 2008 general election coffers to her 2012 senate election fund instead of offering a refund. Famously, HDRC has a large [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,36,9,104,4],"tags":[43,47,158],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-economics","category-ideology-philosophy","category-news","category-public","tag-clinton","tag-election","tag-hillary-clinton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}