Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Clinton gives back some, but not all


Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign announced last night that it would return about $850,000 to about 260 donors who had been recruited or tapped by Norman Hsu, the disgraced Clinton campaign fund-raiser who recently fled arrest and is now under investigation for his fund-raising practices.
The Clinton campaign also disclosed last night that it would begin running criminal background checks on its bundlers — the dozens of individuals who raise hundreds of thousands of dollars from donors on behalf of a candidate, as Mr. Hsu had done for Mrs. Clinton. A Clinton adviser said that “vigorous additional vetting” of the bundlers, including the criminal checks, would begin this week, and that the campaign was hiring people for that purpose.
Mr. Hsu’s legal problems have created the Clinton campaign’s first major in-house controversy. While Mr. Hsu donated $600,000 to an array of candidates over the last three years, he had become primarily a Clinton fund-raiser for this presidential cycle — one of the so-called Hillraisers who held events for Mrs. Clinton and aided her in the money race with a leading Democratic rival, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois.



This is a news feature article mainly because of the fact that it is a follow up to the continuing story about Presidential Candidate Cilinton and a donation made by foreign donor and further develops the situation between the money and where the money will go. This story follows the donation and the fact that the donor is a criminal. This story concludes the situation in that the Candidate Clinton is going to return the funds. This is a news follow feature because it is a concluding story surrounding the massive donation given to the Clinton campaign. The original news was the donation, this is a follow news feature because it tells of what Clinton will do with the funds.

Hillary Gives Back Some, But Not All

1 comment:

Mariel said...

Not quite. The lead should tell you that this is a breaking news story itself. The news is that last night, Hillary Clinton announced she would give back money. It's a brand new breaking news story, isn't it?

Try again.

Mariel