"So who broke the law?" you ask.

John Huang, an employee the Democratic National Committee (not a member of Gore’s staff by any stretch of the imagination), who had only been on the job for four months, had sold some tickets to a fund raising dinner with Gore in Monterey Park that was supposed to be held on April 29 as well. But in early April, the fund-raising dinner with Gore was canceled. Huang didn’t want to give back ticket money he’d received for a canceled event, so he invited some of the ticket holders to the Buddhist Temple luncheon. After the lunch (and after Gore had left) Huang, in complete violation of what he was told to do by his boss, asked for donations from some of the people who had attended the Temple luncheon.

Later Maria Hsia, another Democratic fund-raiser and the immigration counselor for the Hsi Lai temple (again, not a member of Gore’s staff), solicited a $55,000 contribution from the temple -- a tax-exempt organization that is not allowed legally to make political donations. Then she covered up the donation’s source by having the temple’s monks give the donation in $5,000 checks - - while the temple reimbursed the monks. That, of course, is illegal. And John Huang accepted the $55,000 on behalf of the Democratic National Committee without asking where it came from, which was at the very least a dumb thing to do.

Gore is so clean he squeaks.

The guy won’t even jaywalk. He really bums me out.

Go now pathetic mortal, leave me alone with my rapidly deteriorating self-esteem...