Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Politicians - Behaving badly?
I figure they were so anxious to separate themselves from this money that they got rid of it quickly without thinking about the "right" thing to do.
On the other hand, perhaps they saw an opportunity to get credit for benevolence, easily done with the money of others...
On the other hand, perhaps they saw an opportunity to get credit for benevolence, easily done with the money of others...
At the Politico.com, Ben Smith gives his opinion:
"When Democratic megadonor Norman Hsu was exposed as a scam artist, Democrats scrambled to get rid of the cash he had shoveled into their campaigns.
They gave his contributions away to recipients from Habitat for Humanity to the U.S. Treasury to an upstate New York school for autistic children.
There is a set of deserving recipients who haven’t seen a dime, however: Norman Hsu’s victims."
