HRC China Advisor Quits Over "Low Road"
Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 12:25:56 PM PDT
This is from Politico. Does not seem to have been picked up by the media yet (or will they ignore it like the Philly rally?)
More below the fold.
A top expert on China has resigned as an informal adviser to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign in the wake of the candidate's increasingly harsh anti-China rhetoric.
Richard Baum, a political science professor at the Center for Chinese Studies at UCLA, resigned in light of what he called "grossly misguided accusations" made by Clinton about China.
"As a lifelong Democrat, it saddens me that Sen. Clinton has chosen to take the low road in her effort to gain our party’s presidential nomination," Baum said in an e-mail to Politico.
Full article is here.
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