Opinion: Hillary Clinton whittles away at her record-setting campaign debt

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Hillary Clinton is continuing the long process of paying off her record-setting debt, receiving $1.8 million in donations and cutting the obligations by a like amount.

After raising $247 million for her presidential campaign, her overall debt stood at $22.16 million at the end of August. Part of that was $13.1 million she loaned her campaign. The New York senator is not recovering any of that.

She is paying millions more to vendors, at least some of them. She whittled down the vendor debt in August to about $9 million, down from $10.8 million in July, her latest campaign finance report filed Saturday shows.

The biggest creditor other than herself is the consulting firm founded by her former chief strategist, Mark Penn. Clinton owes $5.29 million to Penn’s firm. She has paid none of it.

--Dan Morain