I voluntarily left the Hillary Finance Committee after I discovered more than $3,000 in unauthorized charges from HRC campaign on my own VISA card! And that set off a wave of overdrafts and $400 in bank charges that I was stuck with. And the compliance officer Allison Wright at Hillary VA headquarters refused to reimburse me for the charges. And the senior finance reps who I notified about more than $3,000 in unauthorized Visa Charges never once aplogized or empathized with my plight, much less sent me a "sorry for all the trouble" note and a check!

Unbelievably, it took me more than a month of pleading and begging via email to get the money back. I was told verbatim:

"Kathy Callahan, you are going to be with us all the way to the White House...So let's leave the money where it is and we'll save time on inevitable future donations and transactions!"  

I went into a state of abject shock, disbelief and later anger! Heartbroken. I didn't want to report this entirely correctable problem to anyone outside the Hillary campaign! One long month later, and at the behest of a bank executive who said to me a few days before Christmas Eve, "You are way way way over the legal donor limit, Kathy!  What are they thinking? Are they thinking at all?"

So I followed his direction and filed a police report in Ridgefield. I then notified Allison Wright and Cc'ed senior finance reps (who I met many times) via email again about the police report and said, "Enough is Enough, already! Christmas is coming!"

It was then and only then and within a matter of seconds that I got a cell phone call and email from Allison Wright imploring me, "Kathy, please don't do anything, formally!  I will send you whatever you want back, immediately!" I told her, "You can send all of my money back!"

Finally, $5,300 large came back to me but not the $400 in overdraft charges.

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Matt McQuenney who works in the compliance department at HRC headquarters told me verbatim -"What happened to you with credit card errors is happening to others,. You are not alone.  Kathy, I'm trying hard to find out where and who it's coming from. What's going on!"

http://bluejersey.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=9813449AE0DED021B8BD56515A85568C?diaryId=7104

HRC is a damned desperate bitch who has hired arm-twisting thugs and lobbyists to manage her campaign.  Apparently, there are thieves at work, too.  Taking money directly from someone's personal account without even the courtesy of asking is WRONG.  Who many people did they put over the legal limit for contributions?  How many dared complain, or simply sucked up the loss?

Is this how she plans to manage the country???  Just reach into wallets to fund her bloated ego?

And, yes, I'm getting angrier by the day.  She is destroying my Party and will destroy my Country unless stopped, and I fear the party's leaders don't have the gumption to act in time.

NO way in hell do I think the earlier results should stand.  And anyone who is claiming that those results are fair or accurate is just an out-and-out liar.

"Little people are very stuff-intensive."

There are problems with all proposed solutions. Money, time, legalities. There won't be a new primary, I don't think. Mail-ins? Maybe. I don't think caucuses can be done. If all else fails, I'd say split the delegates down the middle so that they can participate in the convention without giving one side an advantage.

My reason for donating to the DNC is Dean's 50 state strategy.  But no more until this mess is settled.

I agree.  It's generally safer to vet your candidates well and give to them, but I still believe it takes a larger organization (DNC, DFA, etc.) to make structural changes on a broad scale.

I would like to register my disappointment in the ugly turn the Democratic party has taken these past few weeks. I dmit freely to being an Obama supporter, though Dodd was my first choice.

    The only reason I turned to Obama after Iowa was because of the race-baiting tactics from the Clinton's campaign between July 2007 and Jan. 4, 2008.

    That entire time, the party leaders were silent. They stood by why a fellow Senator and Democrat used right-wing talking points, to denigrate a candidate. As a black female, as a Muslim woman, Sen. Clinton's antics were something I expect from someone like George Allen or Trent Lott.

    I had hoped that after news reports mentioned that Bill Clinton has been "talked to" about his Southern Strategy, that we had seen the last of the race-baiting from the Clinton's. I was wrong.

    Geraldine Ferraro's comments from last month and these past few days were not only out of bounds as Democrats,
    but also as a functioning member of society. It pains me that the party I was raised in accepts these sorts of remarks.

    I've sat here for the past 3 days, wondering when a party leader would step in an speak up on behalf of the most loyal bloc of the Democratic party. There was nothing. I sat here the last day searching elected officials websites and local papers throughout this country, looking for something from some elected offical denouncing Ferraro's remarks, chastising the Clinton's for not taking a harder stance on her outdated and factually incorrect statements. The silence is deafening.

    I receive a lot of requests for money from you guys. When I had money, I gave freely. I volunteer my time and energy to get Democrats elected. I make phone calls, I blog, I email. This is all going to stop as of today. Because today, I am not proud to call myself a Democrat. Today, I am ashamed, as a black person in the United States, to associate with a party where racist statements are simply "disagreed" with.