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Hillary Clinton Auctions Off Date with Bill Clinton

by JeffHuang | April 17, 2009 at 01:56 pm

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is auctioning off her husband Bill Clinton in hopes of paying off debts from last year's presidential bid.

On the Hillary Clinton website, donors can contribute to win a seat at the season finale of American Idol, a weekend in Washington D.C. including tours and lunch with a politician, or a day with Bill Clinton in New York. The Bill Clinton auction is a strategy to pay off the $6 million campaign debt Hillary owes.
The Hillary Clinton auction will take place on April 25.

Like any sitting cabinet member, Clinton is allowed to continue raising money to retire old debt. But federal ethics laws prohibit her from personally soliciting donations.

That job now apparently falls to Carville.The Fox-produced show does not sell the tickets, but gives them all away. The ducats were not given to Camp Clinton by Fox or its parent, News Corp., a representative of media mogul Rupert Murdoch said.

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Paschen

at 18:40 on April 17th, 2009

That system is pathetic.

hidflect

at 19:42 on April 17th, 2009

With pressures like this to generate money, how can any politician stay "noble minded"? Needing at least $10 Million in funds to run for senator and a $100 Million to be the Prez, no honest citizen can ever participate.