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Clinton Finance Advisor resigns over $3000 Credit Card Charge

by James Pate | March 10, 2008 at 09:18 am

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Kathy Callahan who worked for the HRC campaign finance committee has resigned over unauthorized charges by the HRC campaign to her personal VISA card. A longtime supporter of Clinton who gave $2000 willingly to the campaign. She is now supporting Obama's campaign.

Here is a list of the contributions that Kathy made from campaignmoney.com.

And here is the explanation from her diary on bluejersey.com:

I voluntarily left the Hillary Finance Committee after I discovered
more than $3,000 in unauthorized charges from HRC campaign on my own
VISA card! And that set off a wave of overdrafts and $400 in bank
charges that I was stuck with. And the compliance officer Allison
Wright at Hillary VA headquarters refused to reimburse me for the
charges. And the senior finance reps who I notified about more than
$3,000 in unauthorized Visa Charges never once aplogized or empathized
with my plight, much less sent me a "sorry for all the trouble" note
and a check!

Unbelievably, it took me more than a month of pleading and begging via email to get the money back. I was told verbatim:

"Kathy Callahan, you are going to be with us all the way to the
White House...So let's leave the money where it is and we'll save time
on inevitable future donations and transactions!"

I went into a state of abject shock, disbelief and later anger!
Heartbroken. I didn't want to report this entirely correctable problem
to anyone outside the Hillary campaign! One long month later, and at
the behest of a bank executive who said to me a few days before
Christmas Eve, "You are way way way over the legal donor limit, Kathy!
What are they thinking? Are they thinking at all?"