The Ready for Hillary Super PAC is cashing in with donations from former guests of the White House who were part of the Lincoln Bedroom scandal.
The White House during former President Bill Clinton’s second term was caught awarding some of the Democratic party’s biggest donors with an overnight stay in the famed Lincoln Bedroom.
The overnight guests at the White House contributed a total of $10,176,840.
Two of those guests are again getting behind the Clintons: According to the group’s most recent campaign filing, former White House guests Leonard Barrack and Susan Thomases each contributed $5,000 to Ready for Hillary PAC.
Though not all of Clinton’s White House guests were major political donors, these two in particular have been longtime financial backers of the Democratic party.
According to CQ’s Political MoneyLine, Thomases has been a contributor for more than three decades and her total contributions exceed $150,000.
She has contributed to the campaigns of both Bill and Hillary Clinton, and has made large contributions to the Democratic National Committee and other party-affiliated groups.
Barrack has also been an active political donor since the 1980s, contributing more than $331,000 to various candidates and groups, including $62,000 to the Democratic National Committee.
Barrack has also been a financial supporter of Hillary Clinton since her 1999 run for Senate in New York.
Current Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, who ran fundraising operations for President Bill Clinton, who came up with the idea to invite donors to sleep in the historical room.
During his 2009 run for governor, which was derailed in the Democratic primary, McAuliffe was labeled by opponents in his own party as "the booking agent of the Lincoln Bedroom."