Posted by Jed Lewison on Wed May 21, 2008 at 10:19 AM Pacific

No wonder she's always asking for money

The Clinton campaign was $19.5 million in debt as of April 30. In early May she loaned even more money to the campaign. How much more in debt are they now? And if they pay back the debt with a big speech or book, won't that be illegal?

Update: My original post said Clinton was $31 million in debt. (As did the article I linked to.) Turns out the article was wrong -- it's $21 million, just as Howard Wolfson said it was. I regret repeating the Los Angeles Times' error. (Heh -- always wanted to blame the LAT for something!)

Update 2: Turns out the re-updated article was also wrong, or at least misleading. It included $1.4 million that Clinton says she loaned the campaign in May. But since there is no way to to verify that, I'm just going to go with the actual FEC report which says $19.5 million.

No wonder she's always asking for money

The Clinton campaign was $19.5 million in debt as of April 30. In early May she loaned even more money to the campaign. How much more in debt are they now? And if they pay back the debt with a big speech or book, won't that be illegal?

Update: My original post said Clinton was $31 million in debt. (As did the article I linked to.) Turns out the article was wrong -- it's $21 million, just as Howard Wolfson said it was. I regret repeating the Los Angeles Times' error. (Heh -- always wanted to blame the LAT for something!)

Update 2: Turns out the re-updated article was also wrong, or at least misleading. It included $1.4 million that Clinton says she loaned the campaign in May. But since there is no way to to verify that, I'm just going to go with the actual FEC report which says $19.5 million.

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