A bundle of trouble
Interesting Washinton Post editorial on Hillary Clinton’s epic fundraising in Chinatown (via, I am almost embarrassed to say, Michelle Malkin).
It’s certainly true, as campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson says, that “Asian-Americans in Chinatown and Flushing have the same right to contribute as every other American.” The campaign argues that it did what it could to ensure that contributions were legal. The alternative, the campaign says, would be to prevent those with foreign-sounding names from participating in the political process. But there’s another alternative: to strengthen a vetting process that seems geared more toward justifying the acceptance of checks than toward uncovering problems.
If there were no campaign finance limits, why, people would be free to buy Hillary Clinton in the old fashioned way (all at once). No need to organise large-scale scams like this (and it’d be a lot more obvious where the money came from, assuming that candidates still had to declare the money in the freer system).