Campaign Aide: Clinton Lent Herself $6.4 Million in Past Month
WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton lent her presidential campaign $6.4 million over the past month, her campaign said Wednesday, underscoring the financial advantage held by her rival, Barack Obama.
The money more than doubled Clinton’s personal investment in her bid for the Democratic nomination. She gave her campaign $5 million earlier this year.
A campaign aide said Clinton gave her campaign another $5 million on April 11, more than a week before the Pennsylvania primary. She then again dipped into her personal wealth for $1 million last week and $425,000 on Monday, one day before the North Carolina and Indiana primaries.
Clinton’s campaign reported raising $10 million online after her Pennsylvania victory on April 22. Evidently, the money was not enough and her fundraising was unable to keep up with her expenses heading into Tuesday’s contests.
Moreover, Obama has routinely outspent her in primary after primary and has shown little difficulty tapping his vast network of donors. He spent more than $7 million on advertising head of Tuesday’s primaries in North Carolina and Indiana to her nearly $4 million.
According to the latest campaign finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission, Obama began the month of April with $42 million in the bank for the primary to Clinton’s $9.3 million.
But Clinton had debts of $10.3 million at the start of the month, much of it money owed to her main polling, phone banking and advertising consultants.
Hillary getting money from who???? Us the TAX payers. We had a cheat in the white house, I sure don’t want a theif in the house. Tell me when will people wake up and see the scam HC is posing on the citizens? What happened to the limits a person can contribute to a campaign????
Hillary had to lend her campaign her own money because republicans are voting for her in the primarys. If liberals were supporting her, campaign donations would be pouring in from them. Apparently there’s a huge concerns about McCain’s electability. And huge fear that he can’t beat Obama.
Ziggy Smith I totally agree with your comments.
BO is not qualified for this most important job in the world. He has serious judgment problems and is too weak to stand what he believes. His patriotism is in question. BO’s supporters are most rude human beings on earth with no manner and no respect to other fellow citizens. BO can’t unite them, how can he unite this country? This will be the first time in my adult life that I won’t be proud of this country if BO becomes the president. I respect McCain and our family will be voting for McCain if BO is the nominee. Plain and simple!!
Lets see how do you loan your own campain money. What is the intrest rate you get back from your party. Who actually repays you. Now you now ths is a scam to make money not to be president. But then of course if you become president the you can really steal from us americans.
When will the April financial numbers be released by both campaigns?
where & who is all of Obama’s money coming from?
So she LOANED the campaign money.. she gets it all back with interest!! That isn’t DONATING to the campaign like the public has to.
Luke is right, it’s not a fight between democrats and republicans. It’s a fight between democrats while the republicans prepare to move right back into the WhiteHouse. As far as better off than the rest of the world, those rose colored hippie glasses haven’t flown since the late 60’s.
Hilary Clinton is living in a mental state like an Egyptian river-Denial