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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Mrs. Clinton helped enact legislation allowing the developer, Robert J. Congel, to use tax-exempt bonds to help finance the construction of the Destiny USA entertainment and shopping complex, an expansion of the Carousel Center in Syracuse.But then the report goes on to say this:
Mrs. Clinton also helped secure a provision in a highway bill that set aside $5 million for Destiny USA roadway construction.
Mrs. Clinton, who as a Senate candidate in 2000 supported other tax breaks for a Carousel mall expansion to create jobs, did not work alone in getting the subsidies through Congress. The measures had other supporters in the New York delegation, including Senator Charles E. Schumer, a Democrat, and James T. Walsh, Syracuse's Republican representative at the time.This is thinner than the stack of RSVP's to Bill Richardson's next Super Bowl party. The donation was to a charitable foundation, not a political campaign, and followed the supposed favor. The favor in question, she barely had anything to do with, and Congel was not the sole beneficiar, as the article implies. It's also an extension of something she supported four years before the donation occurred.
And the "green bonds" were backed by lawmakers from three other states with projects that would qualify for it.
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