J. Lo is high on Hillary.
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s merciless assault on the checkbooks of Beverly Hills accelerated during the second quarter of 2006, with fresh cash coming from the likes of Jennifer Lopez ($4,200), her husband Marc Anthony ($4,200), Tom Hanks ($2,100), “Wedding Crashers” star Owen Wilson ($2,100), Disney CEO Robert Iger ($2,100) and Long Island’s Billy Crystal ($4,000).
Clinton, who has $22 million in the bank and raised $5.2 million from April to July, even managed to scare up $2,100 from Chris Rock, who used to devote a big chunk of his comedy act exploring intimate details of the Monica Lewinsky affair.
Glenn Thrush
Donald Trump’s ex-wife Marla Maples gave Clinton $2,000 as did Bill Clinton’s campaign manager James Carville, according to the Federal Election Commission form. At 4,000 pages, the filing is about half the size of the World Book encyclopedia.
It shows the senator making inroads in the sports world, drawing donations from baseball home run king Hank Aaron ($300), former New York Rangers goalie Mike Richter ($4,200), ex-Knicks coach Herb Williams ($1,000) and Islanders co-owner Charles Wang, who has given Friends of Hillary $2,750 this year.
Clinton’s potential GOP opponents, John Spencer and K.T. McFarland, raised less than $1 million between them during the spring – a fraction of what the senator spent over the same period.
The senator’s re-election campaign spent $1.1 million on five direct-mail, telemarketing and polling firms, as part of the effort to built a nationwide operation. Clinton also paid out $144,000 to Mandy Grunwald, a media guru who was a key part of Bill Clinton’s campaign team.