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Posted at 7:32am on Apr. 6, 2008 Clinton Charity Begins At Home

By California Yankee

After I posted about the Clintons becoming the $109 million couple, Dan McLaughlin noted that Hillary and Bill took tax write-offs totaling $10.2 million in charitable contributions. Dan wondered if we know how many of those charities are run by Bill Clinton?

The answer is not exactly. Most of the charitable contributions went to the Clinton Family Foundation, and a portion was even distributed to charitable causes.

This is the same Clinton Family Foundation that Hillary failed to disclose as required by the Ethics in Government Act. The foundation was kept off of Hillary's Senate disclosure forms for six years.

The family foundation is based at the Clintons' Chappaqua, N.Y., home. Bill Clinton serves as its president, Hillary Clinton as secretary and treasurer, and daughter Chelsea as a director.

Between 2001 and 2006, the Clintons put about $6 million into the foundation. The Clintons took a tax write-off for that money even though the foundation only gave away gave away about $2.5 million to other charities.

The Clinton Family Foundation gave $25,000 to the McGovern Library and Center for Leadership and Public Service in Mitchell, S.D., in early 2007. Did that have anything to do with McGovern's endorsement of Hillary in October? According to the Post, McGovern says no:

It was the furthest thought when I decided to endorse Hillary last October.

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Posted at 4:42pm on Mar. 5, 2008 Hillary's hidden tax returns harm Barry and the Dems in November

'T is a great time to have a straight-talking national hero topping the ticket.

By Mark Kilmer

Let's hear it for John McCain! Check it out:

"In the face of her unwillingness to release her tax returns, Hillary Clinton has made the false case in this campaign that she is more electable because she has been fully vetted," the memo stated. "When it comes to her personal finances, Senator Clinton’s refusal to release her taxes returns denies the media and the American people the opportunity to even begin that process."

And the memo is right. And the memo comes from Camp Barry.

David Axelrod, the Obama campaign's chief strategist, also said in a conference call with reporters Wednesday that Clinton has a history of non-disclosure and is the least-vetted candidate in the presidential race.

(Hillary's peeps, Howard Wolfson really, has said that she'd release them on April 15. This was on ABC's This Week, Sunday.)

But after this is over, as I've posited, the new-inevitable will be so: McCain will face Barry anyway. So why does this matter?

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