Networks Ignore News on Hillary VP Contender, Democratic Senator’s Gift Disclosures

Curtis Houck | June 30, 2016
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On Thursday, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC saw no interest in reporting that a possible Hillary Clinton vice presidential running mate had accepted more $160,000 in gifts while an elected official in Virginia as the veepstakes moves into its later stages. 

In a piece published early Thursday morning by Politico, Democratic Senator Tim Kaine (Va.) had accepted “more than $160,000 in gifts from 2001 to 2009, mostly for travel to and from political events and conferences” and included an “$18,000 Caribbean vacation, $5,500 in clothes and a trip to watch George Mason University play in the NCAA Basketball Final Four.”

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