Norman Hsu 2By Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 25, 2007; Page A01
McALLEN, Tex. -- During the first nine months of this year, Sen. Barack Obama raised just $2,086 for his presidential campaign from people who live in and around this border town of stucco bungalows and weed-covered farm lots, and most candidates raised even less. But Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, has already raised more than $640,000 here, and her campaign expects to collect even more.
Clinton's success in this unlikely setting is based almost entirely on her friendship with one man, McAllen developer Alonzo Cantu. A self-made millionaire who once picked grapes on the migratory farm labor circuit, Cantu persuaded more than 300 people in Hidalgo County, where the median household income in 2006 was $28,660, to write checks ranging from $500 to $2,300 to the senator from New York.
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The Post calls this success. It wreaks of being straw donors. These manipulated people who mostly are very poor and easily duped are donating money and Cantu is probably paying them back. Why the Post would call this fraudulent activity any type of success is beyond me. The behavior stinks to high heaven.