2.22.2008

Overspending at Hy-Vee


DELI PIGOUT A CLINTON GUT BU$TER

Excerpts:

Hillary Rodham Clinton's free-spending campaign blew a whopping $95,000 at a low-end supermarket-deli chain last month in Iowa - a telling sign of why she can no longer cut the mustard financially against Barack Obama in critical states.

Clinton's latest campaign filings reveal how a sprawling, top-heavy campaign organization splurged on posh hotels and pricey consultants but still struggles to define its message against Obama, a charismatic opponent whom Clinton's camp now calls the front-runner.

The $95,000 charge came at the Hy-Vee store in West Des Moines, a grocery and deli chain that is a fixture in the state, on Jan. 1, just two days before Obama stunned Clinton by beating her in the Iowa caucuses.

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The heavy spending helps explain why Clinton's camp ended the year $7.6 million in debt, not including her $5 million loan to her campaign.

The campaign team has plowed through $116 million so far.



Comment: If she can't control the grocery budget ... she can't run the country! Wait until she socializes national health care!

2 comments:

  1. Maybe cheap deli meat at the cauci turned some of her supporters against her. I've shopped at Hy-Vee, and let's just say it's not exactly Lund's or Byerly's, or for that matter not even quite the equal of "Cub."

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  2. We were at a Hy-Vee once. We were camping somewhere in Iowa.

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