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Phone Call Shows Former Labor Sec. Hilda Solis Pressuring DOL Employee Working Under Her To Donate To Obama’s Re-Election Campaign…
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., is highlighting a fundraising phone call former Labor Secretary Hilda Solis made to a department employee as evidence that the Obama administration has a history of illegal fundraising activities.
During a Wednesday Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, Issa played a recording of a voicemail message from March 2012 that he said Solis left on the phone of a Labor Department subordinate asking the person to contribute to Obama’s re-election campaign, Organizing for America, at a restaurant that Friday.
“Hi, this is Hilda Solis calling, um, just calling you off the record here. Wanted to ask you if you could, um, help us get folks organized to come to a fundraiser that we’re doing for Organizing for America for Obama campaign on Friday at La Fonda at 6 p.m.,” she says on the recording.
“… There are a lot of folks that we know that are coming but wanted to ask you if you might help contribute or get other folks to help out,” she said. “I would encourage you to call this number, [inaudible] — that’s his assistant — at [phone number] and you can call [the attorney] yourself who’s a good friend, an attorney, good friend of mine, at [phone number]. And it’s for a Friday event at La Fonda [inaudible] we’re just trying to raise money to show that we have support here in [inaudible].”
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