The Associated Press reports that the Counter Clinton Library, championed by the likes of NewsMax and John LeBoutillier as “the headquarters of the Stop Hillary Now campaign,” has folded:
“I’m giving up,” said Houston businessman Richard Erickson, who established nonprofit Counterlibe Inc. last year to fund construction of a Counter Clinton Library in Little Rock and another in Washington.
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He said the Counter Clinton Library’s Web site would be shut down soon. In addition to railing against the former president and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., the site touts what may have been the failed organization’s biggest moment – a segment on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” in which a fake news reporter makes fun of the group’s very mission.
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In a separate e-mail sent Wednesday, Erickson informed [former congressman Bob] Barr that he couldn’t raise enough money to continue.
“Nearly every dime raised has gone to professional fundraisers and lawyers,” Erickson wrote to Barr. “I cannot continue, in good conscience, to ask well-meaning people to donate to what they believe is a good cause, when the money will most likely be consumed in administrative and legal expenses.”
Does this mean Scaife wouldn’t bail ’em out?
Don’t expect a NewsMax article on this until LeBoutiller figures out how to give it a positive spin.
(Tip o’the hat to Duncan.)