Bill Clinton Raffles Himself to Pay Hillary's Campaign Debt

CBS

Former President Bill Clinton is tapping his star power to help his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, pay off the debt still lingering from her 2008 presidential campaign.

In an e-mail sent to Hillary Clinton supporters this week, Bill Clinton offers contributors to the Clinton campaign a chance to spend the day with him in New York.

"How would you like the chance to come up to New York and spend a day with me?" the e-mail reads. "Hillary's campaign still has a few vestiges of debt that I know she would like to see paid in full. Will you reach out today to help Hillary this one last time? If you enter between now and May 18th, you might join me for a day in New York."

By making a donation or filling out a form, supporters can spend a day with the former president.

Records show that as of April 1, Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign still had $771,000 in debt, the New York Times reports. The campaign owes money to Mark Penn, Clinton's political strategist and pollster -- Penn's firm, Penn Schoen Berland, collected $24 million from the Clinton campaign for their services, according to reports.

[dusti1993]

WISH I HAD MONEY TO PAY THE FULL AMOUNT.NO LUNCH NEEDED.I LOVE/RESPECT THE CLINTONS,AND WILL HELP THEM IN EVERY WAY I CAN. MORE POWER TO THEM.

[I_am_me1953]

"Bill Clinton Raffles Himself to Pay Hillary's Campaign Debt"


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What a *****.

[I_am_me1953]

W h o r e

Gee whizz...they really work hard to censor comments. What should I have said? Street walker, prostitute, lady of the night?

[superlaw]

Gee, helping his wife is offensive to you? Hope you're not married.

[mtcolquitt]

That's the lest he could do for her. He OWES her BIG-TIME!
HE should pay her bill if no idiots can be found.

[jgg000101]

lingering debt from 2008? Disgraceful. This is money owed to limo companies, restaurants, printing companies, and they have not been paid for 2 years??? The Clintons should pay their freaken bills, and then if they want to have a "fundraiser", pay themselves back.

[midwestmind]

This story failed to explain, and the commenter doesn't understand, this debt is not Hillary Clinton's debt. The Hillary for President Committee is what ran up the debt and hasn't paid it off yet. It's one of the quirks of our campaign finance rules that Hillary can't pay of the Hillary for President debt; it has to be paid with money raised by the Hillary for President group.

If you dig deep enough, I think you will find there are lots of folks who's Presidential Committee still owe money. Many of them for a lot more than two years.

[sly_64]

He is such an ugly SOB !!

[JustYourAverageReader]

Why does not she pay off her own debt?

[porcine_aviator]

Because she is just another deadbeat rotter that has no morals.

[vietnamwar]

do we have any gays right activist to take on this offer???

[toldyouso21]

If he already made 24 million for his part in Hilary's campaign, why doesn't Penn write off the debt and forgive Hilary--didn't he gouge her enough when he worked for her and did he not benefit from that position?