WHAT A HEEL!: Hillary’s Campaign Has Been Stiffing Small Businesses Nationwide
Without intending to, a landlord in NH, the owner of a cleaning service in IA and other small businesses around the country have made “in kind” donations to the Clinton campaign when they were stiffed for money owed to them.
Last week, The Portsmouth (NH) Herald reported the campaign still owes local physician Terry Bennett $500 on a short-term lease for a 3,000-sq-ft Portsmouth building campaign workers and volunteers used during the five days leading up to the January 8 NH primary. Bennett also complained that campaign workers - an unknown number of whom had used part of the space as a dormitory - had trashed the place.
After The Herald’s article got picked up by the Drudge Report, other small business owners contacted the paper claiming they too had been stiffed, including one Richard Reese, owner of Top Job Services Inc., a cleaning service in Des Moines, IA – which held its caucus on January 3rd - who is still waiting to get paid. Reese tells The Herald: “I am a small business, and it puts a strain on you. … I was promised it would be here on Feb. 4, then on my doorstep Feb. 5.”
As Bennett so pithily puts it, “This is the campaign that claims to represent little people.”
Last week, Hillary announced that she had lent her campaign $5 million of her own personal funds and her campaign has announced that she is expected to raise $20 million in February. The Stiletto hopes some of this pile of dough will be used to pay Hillary’s past-due bills.
But when you think about it, isn’t it remarkable that having already raised $100 million in 2007, Hillary would find herself in a money bind? She’s burning through Other People’s Money as fast as it's coming in. Imagine how much of your income she’ll burn through to pay for universal healthcare and other expensive government programs.
Do you really want this woman minding the nation’s purse-strings?
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