Ted Strickland, Jennifer Brunner, Sherrod Brown Get Rid of Dirty Money
Aug 31, 2007 at 9:17 am - Submitted By: Matthew 2 Comments
From the AP:
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Three prominent Ohio Democrats are giving away contributions associated with a New York apparel executive who skipped his 1991 sentencing on charges he defrauded investors in California.
Governor Ted Strickland, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner and US Senator Sherrod Brown are donating to charity money given to them by Norman Hsu, or those reportedly associated with him. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton announced earlier this week that it would return $23,000 that Hsu made to her present and past campaigns and political action committee.
Strickland is donating $10,000 he received from Hsu. Brunner is donating the 3,000 she received from Hsu. And Brown is donating $1,500 he received from donors reportedly associated with Hsu.
According to Mark Niquette’s report in The Dispatch, Ted Strickland’s memory is suspiciously fuzzy and Brunner spoke at the criminal’s house:
Records show that Hsu gave $10,000 to Strickland as part of events or meetings in New York on May 19, 2006, that raised nearly $98,000 for the governor’s campaign.
Strickland doesn’t recall meeting with Hsu, but it’s possible he did, said Randy Borntrager, an Ohio Democratic Party spokesman responding on behalf of the governor.
Brunner isn’t certain whether the $3,000 she got from Hsu on Nov. 9, 2006, came from a campaign fundraising letter or through a Democratic National Committee appeal, spokesman Jeff Ortega said.
But Brunner did speak at Hsu’s New York home on June 27 this year at the request of the Twenty-First Century Democrats, which held a fundraiser there, he said.
Brunner had “minimal conversation” with Hsu at the event, but he has had no other interaction with her or the office, Ortega said.
This is just another example of the Democrat’s new culture of corruption.
And as Mark said in the comments, Strickland needs to give back $98,000, not $10,000. |
