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doug from upland David Rosen President and CEO Competence Group Inc. AGE: 35 The 10 summers David Rosen spent ringing doorbells to sell books turned o ut to be good preparation for raising tens of millions of dollars for th e Gore-Lieberman ticket, Hillary Clinton's Senate race and other promine nt Democratic candidates. He still holds the record for first-year sales, accordin g to Dan Moore, Southwestern's marketing vice-president. The firm's alum ni include two current governors, a senator and former Whitewater indepe ndent counsel Kenneth Starr. "He's the most dedicated, hard-working, organized person I've met in a lo ng time," say Chicago lawyer Myron "Mike" Cherry, a veteran Democratic f und-raiser and general counsel for the gubernatorial campaign of Rep. Ro d Blagojevich, D-Chicago, for which Mr Rosen has helped raise about $1 million outside Illinois. "And he's got a Rolodex that would rival (form er President) Clinton's," Mr Cherry says. "I can't talk someone into giving money," says Mr Rosen. "You just have to call a tremendous amount of people and find those who are interested. " He caught the political bug while taking a political science course taugh t by David Wilhelm, a longtime Chicago-based political consultant who ch airs the Blagojevich campaign. Mr Rosen credits his success to Southwestern's rigorous training. "You can use it whether you're selling airplanes, insurance or politician s," he says.
View Replies To: doug from upland DAVID ROSEN (the man who will turn on Hillary) Scared me for a moment. The mental picture the headline created in me was horrific.
View Replies To: doug from upland As a matter of fact, I made my first post on FR (and nearly got banned) f or stating my belief that Zell Miller - who pledged Clinton loyalty in ' 92 - is still their loyal tool. He only wanted Kerry to lose so that Hil lary can run in '08.
View Replies To: All Clinton, Rosen, Tonken Joel Miller January 10, 2005 The Hillary Clinton/David Rosen/Aaron Tonken story is exploding. Rush was talking about it today, as was the editorial page of the New York Sun. And NPR even covered it Sunday, tying in the charity-scam angle with tsu nami charitable giving. Probing the question of Hill ary's involvement in monies spent on the Hollywood Gala that honored her husband and dumped loads of possibly illegally reported cash into her S enate campaign coffers, Rush Limbaugh today summed up the question simpl y: When the Clintons are involved and there is a scandal, is it easier to be lieve they know about it or they don't know about it? Is it easier to be lieve they're in on it or not in on it? I'm telling you, folks, wise behavior here is to take previous experienc e guided by intelligence and come to a conclusion. The conclusion is, a scandal-ridden bunch like this, there's another scandal, is it logical t o assume they don't know anything about it? Is it logical to assume that one of their cohorts is turning on them and trying to screw 'em? Is it logical to believe that they're just innocent bystanders in all this? No it's not logical to believe that in any way, shape, manner, or form. Based on Aaron Token's recollection of events, Limbaugh is exactly right.
Eventually, I would become a lot more familiar with Federal Election Commission requirements and see exactly how much m isreporting had been done on things I was involved with. At the t ime, though, Aaron says he had to trust Rosenalbeit not completely, it turns out. "Concerned that some day this stuff might come back to haunt me, I saved all the receipts." He did, and he later turned over more tha n two dozen boxes of documents to the Feds to back up his story.
But this was my real shot to talk to her with no one else around, and what I wanted was to let her know how much I admire d her, how much I was behind her, and most important, what I had already done for her. I told her about virtually every penny I'd spent on her behalf. I let her know what I was doing and had done for each event of hers. I spoke abou t the money and what a pleasure and honor it was to spend it on her cand idacy for the US Senate. Once and for all, I wanted it clear in her mind who was the person really doing things for her. There was so much jockeying for position among th ose around her: Kelly, David, Jim Levin, and so on. I thought I might have been short-changed, and I wanted to c orrect that. I believed that once she knew the facts, she would see how valuable I was to her and welcome me into her inner circle. The whole thing was intend ed to be solely for my benefit. I could tell she wasn't entirely comfortable with this conversation, and yet I could n't stop. It wasn't until much later that I fully realized what I had do ne. Whatever protection her staff had built around her, however much in the dark they had kept her, that was over. Did she tell Rosen t o rectify the matter on the campaign finance reports? King of Cons features reproductions of thank-you letters Hillary wrote Aa ron. Others exist that couldn't for space considerations be included. Bi ll Clinton was closely involved in a future Tonken project, A Family Cel ebration 2001 (ironic, considering that Bill's idea of family is loose e nough to include the White House intern pool). Clinton was also pleased to receive checks totaling $300,000 from Aaron for his presidential foun dationcopies of the checks are reproduced in the book. King of Cons als o includes copies of Rosen's Beverly Hills Hotel bill for the event. The entire hypocritical leftist galaxy of Hollywood gets a salacious send -up in King of Cons. From Aaron's days as a virtual prisoner of Zsa-Zsa Gabor, to getting chiseled by Sylvester Stallone, to run-ins with Cher, Lance Bass, Roseanne, Barbra Streisand, the cast of Friends, Melanie Gri ffith, Sharon Stoneit's hilarious, tragic, absurd, awful, and incredibl e And with David Rosen's indictment and further exploration into Hillar y's involvement, it's also politically explosive.
View Replies To: SteveMcKing Nah, don't forget what Morris really is. He could see where his political future was and where the money was. Come to think of it, Maybe that will be the reason R osen flips.
lonestar What was Zell doing at the DNC in '92, using the same conviction to make a speech endorsing Bill Clinton over George Bush? He never retracted tha t There's only one way out of the Clinton cult - your untimely grave.
View Replies To: All January 11, 2005 Post Trauma Syndrome It must be pretty tough being a Liberal nowadays. Look back at 2004 and y ou see a stunning electoral defeat, in spite of the fact that CBS produc er Mary Mapes and all the bulging foreheads down at the New York Times w ere doing their level best to put your boy John Kerry in the White House . Look ahead to 2008 and you see Hillary burdened with the albatross of David Rosen--her campaign-finance director in 2000--who has just been in dicted for shady fund raising practices. Today's New York Post lays it a ll out with admirable clarity. In "Another Hillary Scandal", Dick Morris lays out the time line so well that the prosecutor's work is nearly done. According to Morris, by Septe mber of 2000 Republican Rick Lazio had closed in on Hillary's lead and h ad also raised a large amount of hard money. Knowing Hillary was both an outspoken enemy of soft money and a huge recipient of same, Lazio "inva ded her space" during a televised debate, brandishing a pen and demandin g she sign a pledge to receive no more soft money. Though shying back as if she had been physically threatened, Hillary signed. With very little hard money in the campaign coffers, it looked as if Hill ary had signed away the election as well. While her defenders hit the talking-head circuit to portray Lazio as an a busive white male, David Rosen quietly undereported the cost of a recent Hollywood fundraiser for Hillary to the FEC, thus giving the campaign $ 280,000 in extra hard money. The legal, non-Arkansas way to raise that k ind of cash would be to get 280 donors to write 280 $1000 checks. Morris writes out of his consi derable campaign experience when he notes, '"A decision of this magnitud e--how much to say the ev...
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