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Clinton Spending Vexes Donors

Supporters ask why consultants are paid so much for failing campaign

By Lucas Laursen, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 22, 2008 10:52 AM CST

(Newser) – The $25,000 Hillary Clinton's sputtering campaign dropped at Vegas' posh Bellagio last month is raising eyebrows among those cutting her the checks, reports the New York Times. Add $5 million for the very strategists who engineered her string of recent failures, and donors looking... Read full story »

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Supporters ask why consultants are paid so much for failing campaign

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