Will Barbara Boxer Endorse Hillary Despite Family Troubles?

• So far California Senator Barbara Boxer has not endorsed either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama heading into Super Tuesday.
• What role do family problems play in her decision?
• In 1994 Hillary Clinton's 39 year old brother Tony Rodham married Barbara Boxer's 26 year old daughter, Nicole Boxer in a Rose Garden Wedding. It was the first wedding held at the White House since the Nixon era.
• The couple later divorced in 2000 and reportedly Tony Rodham owes approximately $130,000 in back child support and alimony.
• Tony Rodham led a rather unremarkable life prior to Bill Clinton's first Presidential campaign. Among other things he worked as an insurance salesman, repo man, prison guard, process server and PI. During Bill Clinton's first Presidential campaign he started working for the DNC.
• 1997 through 1999 he began consulting and unsuccessfully tried to arrange meetings between Paraguayan President Juan Carlos Wasmosy, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia with President Clinton.
• In 1999 Tony and his brother Hugh attempted a $118 million business to export hazelnuts from the Republic of Georgia. When their business associate in Georgia turned out to be an opponent of the Georgian President the then National Security Advisor Sandy Berger became upset and the business venture stopped.
• Tony was also involved in the Bill Clinton pardon controversy and as recently as 2007 he was contesting a bankruptcy court ruling that he repay a loan from one of the now deceased pardon recipients.

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Sources:

NY Post, NY Times, Wikipedia