Hillary pumps her own money into campaign

WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton dipped into her own finances ahead of this week’s Super Tuesday contests, lending her Democratic presidential campaign $5 million in late January, she disclosed Wednesday. In another development, some senior members of Clinton’s campaign staff have agreed to go without pay for a month, CNN.com reported on Thursday.

“We had a great month fundraising in January — broke all records,” the New York senator and former first lady told reporters. “But my opponent was able to raise more money, and we intended to be competitive, and we were, and I think the results last night prove the wisdom of my investment.”

Clinton won the biggest Super Tuesday prizes — New York and California — along with major Northeastern states New Jersey and Massachusetts and four other primaries in the South and West.

Her rival, Senator Barack Obama, upset Clinton in Missouri and swept caucuses across the Plains and Rocky Mountain states, as well as taking his home state of Illinois and two Southern states, Alabama and Georgia.