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on Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:12:13 PM
Recently, a South Florida billionaire and longtime Clinton financial supporter donated to Mrs C. thousands of dollars and, says he "expects" the junior senator from New York to assign him to an ambassadorial post if she indeed becomes president. The billionaire Jorge Perez, has made it clear that he fully expects Mrs Clinton to do something similar to what her husband did when Bill rewarded his rich supporter with an appointment to The National Council on the Arts. That Perez, a real estate developer who appears on Forbes 400 List of richest Americans, is an art connoisseur made that prior arrangement quite agreeable, but this time the stakes have gone up for both the candidate and, the contributor.
The difference between winning or losing in Florida, especially in Miami which is by all accounts Republican-dominated, could very well rest on the former first lady's ability to keep the $1.8 billion man on her side. Perez is of Cuban descent which makes him a very important friend to have in Miami, a city that is after all, heavily populated with Jorge's people. It is critical that Mrs Clinton carry Miami if she has any hope at all of winning Florida, and thus moving back into the house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. So you see, an ambassadorship for such a loyal friend of the Clinton's seems a small price to pay for her dream, and America's nightmare to come to fruition.
Perez has been very generous to politicians over the years but the biggest benefactors of his largesse over the last decade by far has been the tag team of Hill-Billary and, this time Mr Perez obviously wants something a bit more prestigious than The National Council on the Arts appointment and to a man of his stature, with his wealth, prestige is everything. The days of the small potato public acknowledgement of who he is during Cuban Independence Day celebrations to a group of people he needs absolutely no introduction to in his town are gone! And it doesn't take much imagination for one to draw the conclusion that if she gets what she wants, he'll get what he wants, and we'll get what we deserve for letting it happen!