Hillary Clinton, slowly but surely, pays off her campaign debts

Hillary Clinton continued to whittle away at her record-breaking campaign debt last month, after raising $1.1 million last month.

Of course, Mitt Romney spent the most of his personal fortune, $44.6 million. But Clinton ended the campaign with the largest amount owed to outside vendors, $12 million.

In September, she repaid an array of vendors and individuals $1.066 million. That left her $7.92 million in arrears to consultants, according to a campaign finance disclosure filed today with Federal Election Commission.

Her biggest outside bill remains $5.279 million to the firm founded by Mark Penn, her former chief strategist. She has made no payments to Penn in months.

Clinton raised $248 million for her campaign, including money she lent herself and transferred from her Senate account. Clinton has no hope of recouping the personal $13.175-million loan.

-- Dan Morain

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Comments

[Robin]

Obama made a lousy pick with Biden. He picked a guy who completely blasted him in the primaries for not having federal experience. Hillary should have been Obama's VP choice. It would have shown judgement. Obama flipped on Hillary and flipped on accepting campaign finance reform. He's making even Ralph Nader look pretty good.

[nightmayor]

Kind of funny, Robin - you think Obama made a mistake picking someone who criticized him during the primaries, and in the same breath you think he should have picked Clinton. But there's no one in the primaries who attacked Obama harder (or dirtier) than Clinton.