Debbie Schlussel: HillaryWoodstockGate: Clintonatrix Gets Payoff For Tax-funded . . . Woodstock Museum?!
Wow. That's me envisioning the hilarious Republican campaign commericals about Hillary Clinton and her Woodstock buds and how they paid her off after she paid them off . . . with YOUR tax money.
Yup, Hillary Clinton and her colleague Sen. Charles "Chuckie" Schumer pushed a Senate committee to approve $1 million in tax-funding for a Woodstock concert museum, as part of the Senate education spending bill. That's right--it was one of those nasty earmarks we must get rid of.
And--Quelle Coincidence!--just days after that, Hillary and Chuckie received $29,200 from museum proprietor/billionaire Alan Gerry as a giant "thank you."
Several questions:
1) Um, why do taxpayers need to fund a museum dedicated to the unworthy several muddy, rainy days of drug-addled, anti-war, counterculture debauchery on someone's farm in the '60s?
2) Why the heck does a billionaire--Gerry is a former cable TV mogul with gobs and gobs of money--need working stiff taxpayers to fund this monument to excess and idiocy?
Yup, while working-class taxpayers are taxed up the butt for smoking ciggies, their money is going to a billionaire to fund a museum glorifying the imbecility that was Woodstock . . . all courtesy of Hillary.
More from USA Today:
On the federal level, Gerry, his wife and three children have given $507,800 since 1998, including $272,050 to Democrats and $212,750 to Republicans, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Gerry's wife, Sandra, is a registered Democrat.Most of the Democratic recipients helped the Woodstock venture. Since 2005, the Gerrys have donated $150,000 to the Schumer-led Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and $18,600 to Clinton.
Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y., who earmarked $200,000 for the project in 2003, has received $19,500 since 1998. Hinchey spokesman Jeff Lieberson said the project would offer a "huge economic boost."
Gerry bought the site in Bethel, N.Y., a decade ago to make it a tourist center. A performing arts center opened last year. The two-story museum, under construction, will place Woodstock in the context of the 1960s counterculture movement.
The million-dollar earmark was included in a Senate education spending bill that came out of committee on June 21. On June 26, the Gerrys and two of their children who sit on the foundation's board made $20,000 in contributions to the Schumer-led Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. On June 30, the couple made $9,200 in contributions to Clinton's presidential campaign - the maximum allowed by law.
Again, can't wait for this campaign commercial. And since I know that many GOP consultants in DC and elsewhere read this site, I'm chomping at the bit. Make sure to show footage of muddy, greasy long-haired concertgoers smoking doobies.
BTW, What ever happened to: I went to Woodstock and all I got was this lousy T-shirt?
Now, they go to Woodstock, and taxpayers fund their lousy museum.
Posted by Debbie on October 17, 2007 12:10 PM to Debbie Schlussel