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Advocacy Group Consulted With Clinton Campaign on Critique
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 Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 3:00 pm Post subject: Advocacy Group Consulted With Clinton Campaign on Critique |
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 Advocacy Group Consulted With Clinton Campaign on Critique
When a non partisan advocacy group for Asian Americans released a statement decrying recent news reports about questionable contributions Sen. Hillary Clinton raised in Chinatown, the timing and the message could not have been better for the Clinton campaign.The group's concerns about racial profiling by the media bolster a similar case the Clinton campaign was making in response to reports in the Los Angeles Times and, subsequently, the New York Post, about irregularities in the contributions from scores of donors in Chinatown.
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When a non partisan advocacy group for Asian Americans released a statement decrying recent news reports about questionable contributions Sen. Hillary Clinton raised in Chinatown, the timing and the message could not have been better for the Clinton campaign.The group's concerns about racial profiling by the media bolster a similar case the Clinton campaign was making in response to reports in the Los Angeles Times and, subsequently, the New York Post, about irregularities in the contributions from scores of donors in Chinatown. Several identifying themselves as "cooker" or "dishwasher" had donated $1,000 to the Clinton campaign. Other donors came from addresses where, upon closer inspection, they could not be located. Howard Wolfson, a campaign spokesman, responded to the news accounts by telling reporters "Asian-Americans in Chinatown and Flushing have the same right to contribute as every other American." The next day, the group, Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote, released a statement that questioned any reports that would take issue with contributions just because they came from donors with Asian surnames. In the release Vida Benavides, "cautioned the media for suggesting that legal permanent residents who donate to campaigns should be suspect" and called reports about Clinton's Chinatown fundraising "misleading and irresponsible reporting."
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