WTF?!? Politics: Anti-Semitic Ex-Congressman with Ethics Issues Joins Hillary's Team

Housecarl

On TB every waking moment
For links see article source.....
Posted for fair use.....
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2...ressman-ethics-issues-joins-daniel-greenfield

Anti-Semitic Ex-Congressman with Ethics Issues Joins Hillary's Team

"That came from Jews and Republicans"

November 30, 2015
Daniel Greenfield
Comments 12ƒö

It seemed impossible, but Team Hillary has actually gotten uglier and nastier. The Free Beacon's Alana Goodman has the scoop.

Hillary Clinton has appointed to her leadership team a former congressman who blamed his defeat on ¡§Jewish interests¡¨ and the ¡§Jewish media,¡¨ her campaign announced earlier this month.

Shortly after his defeat, Earl Hilliard, gave an interview to the Black Commentator in which he said ¡§Jewish interests¡¨ bought the election for Davis.

Does it get worse? It's Hillary. S of course it gets worse.

¡§The only thing I know for sure, that I saw in black and white, is $1,098,000 that [Davis] reported,¡¨ said Hilliard in the July 16, 2002 interview. ¡§You can¡¦t take money from corporations, so that came from Jews and Republicans. There¡¦s no question where that money came from.¡¨

Hilliard said his opponent also received millions of dollars in free media coverage.

¡§Remember, the Jewish media. They started putting word out, they wanted everybody to know, because ¡K obviously they felt that the money they had, that they put in, that they were going to beat me,¡¨ he said.

Hilliard¡¦s campaign was also accused of distributing an anti-Semitic leaflet against Davis in the 2002 race.

¡§Mr. Davis must simply understand that Jews the world over have never come to the aid of black or dark skin people because it was the right thing to do,¡¨ said the flyer.

Hilliard denied any connection to the advertisement. After the election, he warned that his loss would incite ¡§retribution¡¨ against Jews.

¡§I see a future with a great deal of conflict between African-Americans and Jews in this country,¡¨ Hilliard told the Associated Press on June 28, 2002. ¡§It¡¦s going to get worse before it gets better. I don¡¦t think African-Americans are going to sit back and let this continue. There will be retribution.¡¨

What's next? Welcoming Cynthia McKinney to the team?

But Hilliard's loss might have had less to do with the Jews and more to do with his ethics issues. That gives him something else in common with Hillary.


The committee found three separate violations, all involving expenditures that were not for legitimate campaign purposes:

From April 1993 through March 1994, the Hilliard for Congress Campaign made at least nine loans totaling $16,205 to three individuals. Two of the recipients were employed in the lawmaker's district offices.

From July 1992 through August 1996 the campaign paid salary and benefits to three individuals working both for the campaign and the private companies. The three "routinely performed administrative, secretarial, bookkeeping and other services" for three private companies, the committee found.

From approximately 1993 through 1996, campaign funds were converted to personal use by Hilliard and used to pay rent and utility costs for the Hilliard family corporations.

The committee found that $13,205 was loaned to Hilliard's niece, Rita Hall Patterson. She held positions in the campaign committee and the family businesses.

Also receiving personal loans were two congressional staff members of Hilliard's Alabama offices, Elvira Williams and Jacqueline Smith.

The campaign committee paid salary and benefits to Elizabeth Turner. While working for the committee, "the majority of her time and efforts were spent in the service of" the Hilliard companies, the ethics committee said.

The firms and the campaign used the same building.

A slow day at the office in Clintonworld.
 
Top