Race is not a factor in the 2008 presidential campaign. My campaign takes money from anyone, including Chinese. As long as they’re US residents, or want to be. Or, as long as they have money. Whichever.
Last spring we held a few fundraisers in New York’s Chinese community that pulled in almost $400,000. Not bad for a bunch of dishwashers, waiters, cooks, and people who run laundries. Where do they stash all that money?
Well, now we find out, and it was certainly a surprise to me, that many of those poor Chinese souls were actually poor. How could they afford to donate $2,000 each? The L. A. Times newspaper tried to track down the donors for us. Almost one third of them didn’t have telephones or local addresses and were not registered to vote. It’s obviously a privacy issue. They don’t want to be bothered by reporters. I can’t blame them.
I asked Bill to call his Chinese pal Chung Seto to find out what really happened during the fundraisers. Seto headed up our fundraising efforts with dozens of Chinese neighborhood associations. He’s a resourceful man who helps immigrants get their green cards, and he sells insurance to Chinese business owners to protect them from crime. What a great guy. Obviously, he raised funds. Plenty of funds. But from whom?
More importantly, will we have to give some of the money back? If so, give it back to whom?
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