Follow The Money to the New Queen

News on the Queen-to-be.

The itemized donations were made public Wednesday, with the paperwork for April through June more than 4,000 pages. In that period, [Hillary] Clinton raised almost $5.7 million, bringing her total for her re-election effort to $43 million to date. She had more than $22 million cash on hand.

Remember, we live in a plutocracy. The number of people who think and vote in this country is statistically insignificant. Those that do not vote do not matter, and those that do not think, can be bought.

So what did Clinton spend her millions on? In this election cycle, the senator has spent more than $21.7 million even though she has yet to run a single television ad. Her two woefully underfunded would-be GOP opponents have spent more time trashing each other.

Clinton has spent millions on direct mailings to prospective donors. In the most recent three-month period, she spent more than $200,000 on postage alone. The campaign paid nearly $650,000 to a company that handles direct mail business.

Raise money to spend money to raise more money to spend more money to raise even more money to become Queen. Seems mighty circuitous, but it also seems to work.

The records also provided a tantalizing clue for would-be Clinton sleuths that she's serious about a White House run: two bills for unidentified campaign worker travel at the Hampton Inn in Des Moines, Iowa, the state with the first caucus in the presidential nomination process.

One bill for $182.25, was dated April 17; a second, for $145.77, was dated April 26.

Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said the receipts were nothing more than a clerical error, and that the amounts reflected hotel bills for trips to Albany, N.Y., and Austin, Texas. He said the paperwork would be corrected.

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