Tester Caves To MT GOP Pressure and Returns Tainted Money
Many of you have probably seen the continuing news coverage of Hillary Clinton and the controversy over donations received from Norman Hsu. Clinton announced late Monday that she would be returning all contributions associated with Hsu (read here).
Well, Montana's rookie Senator Jon Tester also took contributions from associates of Hsu, as was first reported by the Wall Street Journal on August 30 (read here).
This is where things get interesting. The MT GOP issued a call last week for Tester to return the donations that the WSJ had linked to Hsu, and Tester's spokesman responded by saying that they would wait to see if the donations were found to be illegal (McKee, Billings Gazette). That's not exactly the response you'd expect from a guy who promised to "live by a higher standard" in his ethics pledge in 2006.
Today, 12 days after the WSJ first reported that Tester had received donations linked to Hsu, Tester has backed down and his office has announced that they will return the money. For the full story on Tester returning the money, click here.
Bill - Has anyone actually checked to see if this money was really returned? It tooks weeks - and persistent questioning - before Hillary actually returned a penny. Talk's cheap. Onward!
Posted by: Mike Hetherington | October 17, 2007 at 09:06 AM
On the Move On.Org website it shows the donation of $350,000 to Senator Testers canidacy. This too was a measure blow to Senator Burns as this was never mentioned.
Posted by: Cindy Kramer | January 09, 2008 at 05:20 AM