Remember the NHLandlord who had to complain to a newspaper to get his money?. Or the Iowa Landlord who wasn't paid?
Well, the unpaid invoices didn't stop there.
A pair of Ohio companies owed more than $25,000 by Clinton for staging events for her campaign are warning others in the tight-knit event production community — and anyone else who will listen — to get their cash upfront when doing business with her. Her campaign, say representatives of the two companies, has stopped returning phone calls and e-mails seeking payment of outstanding invoices. One even got no response from a certified letter.
And here's what a production company in Youngstown OH has to say:
"We worked very hard to put together these events on a moment’s notice and do absolutely everything to a ‘t’ to make it look perfect on television for her and for her campaign," said the employee. "Sen. Clinton talks about helping working families, people in unions and small businesses. But when it comes down to actually doing something that shows that she can back up her words with action, she fails."
Now, it's usually normal for campaigns to strategically delay paying bills to be able to keep cash on hand for media buys,etc. But the Clintons seems to have dug themselves into a hole.
The New York senator’s presidential campaign ended February with $38 million in the bank, according to a report filed last week with the Federal Election Commission, but only $16 million of that can be spent on her battle with Obama.
The rest can only be spent in the general election, if she makes it that far, and must be returned if she doesn’t. If she had paid off the $8.7 million in unpaid bills she reported as debt and had not loaned her campaign $5 million, the cash she would have had available at the end of last month to spend on television ads and other up-front expenses would have been less than $2 million.
We have no way of knowing what kind of money she's bringing in through the month of March, but rumors suggest it may not be enough to keep her afloat through May 6th, much less August.
To wit: Word is the cash feeding into Hillary Clinton's campaign coffers has not only slowed down in a big way, undisclosed campaign debts that have yet to be made public could signal the end and have insiders biting their nails.
This kind of press can't be good for Clinton Camp morale.
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