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Eliza
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Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:32 am |
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RNC to File FEC Complaint on Obama Fundraising Practices
Over $200 Million in small donors. We were led to believe this was grassroots at its finest.
And perhaps it is.
Or perhaps it's foreign grassroots.
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| annie13
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Mon Oct 06, 2008 1:56 am |
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the party will ask the Federal Election Commission to look into the source of thousands of small-dollar contributions to the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama.
The RNC is alleging that the Obama campaign was so hungry for donations it "looked the other way" as contributions piled up from suspicious, and possibly even illegal foreign donors.
"We believe that the American people should know first and foremost if foreign money is pouring into a presidential election," said RNC Chief Counsel Sean Cairncross.
Cairncross alleged there was mounting evidence of this, and cited a report in the current issue of Newsweek magazine that documents a handful of instances where donors made repeated small donations using fake names, such as "Good Will" and "Doodad Pro."
The Newsweek report says that earlier this year the Obama campaign returned $33,000 to two Palestinian brothers in the Gaza Strip who had bought T-shirts in bulk from the campaign's online store -- purchases that count as campaign contributions. The brothers had listed their address as "Ga.," which the campaign took to mean Georgia rather than Gaza.
"While no organization is completely protected from Internet fraud, we will continue to review our fundraising procedures," Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt told the magazine.
At the heart of the RNC complaint is a federal fundraising rule that lets campaigns accept donations under $200 without itemizing the names and addresses of the donors on its campaign finance reports. The rule was intended as a matter of practicality -- it did not seem reasonable to ask a campaign to gather that information from every five-dollar donor.
But the Obama campaign has raised more than $200 million this way, a staggering sum for donations that will not be subjected to outside scrutiny.
Obama campaign aides said today that a number of steps have been taken to safeguard against foreign or illegal contributions coming in in smaller increments. The measures include: requiring donors to present a passport at fundraising events held for Americans overseas, ending contributions to the Obama Store from contributors with addresses outside the U.S. or its territories, and requiring donors to enter a U.S. passport number when contributing via the Americans Abroad page.
"When we were made aware of an ad for a Nigerians for Obama fundraiser in a Nigerian paper, our attorneys sent a letter to the paper making it clear the event had nothing to do with our campaign, and that we would not accept contributions from the event," one Obama aide said.
And aides note that Sen. John McCain had his own foreign fundraising issues, having been forced to refund about $50,000 in donations solicited by Jordanian Mustafa Abu Naba'a, who was raising money on behalf of one of McCain's top Florida bundlers.
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| GeorgiaMom
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Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:57 am |
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I'm sure Obama is guilty as hell of unethical practices. Why should his fundraising be any different than any of his other unethical deals in life.
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| GEL
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Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:59 am |
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Also where did Obama get his money early on?
This election has me very worried. So many things to consider.
Awhile back, I started thinking 'where did the money come from
for Obama'.
I started looking/reading into Obama's life.
Around 1979 Obama started college at Occidental in California.
He is very open about his two years at Occidental, he tried all kinds of drugs and was wasting his time but, even though he supposedly had a brilliant mind, did not apply himself to his studies. 'Barry'(that was
the name he used all his life) during this time had two roommates,
Muhammad Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, both from Pakistan.
During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a 'round the world' trip. Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia, next Hyderabad in India, three weeks in Karachi, Pakistan where he stayed with his roommate's family, then off to Africa to visit his father's family. My question - Where did he get the money for this trip? No one I know would have had money for a trip like this when I/they where in college. When he came back he started school at Columbia University in New York. It is at this time he wants everyone to call him Barack - not Barry. Do you know what the tuition is at Columbia? It's not cheap! to say the least. Were did he get money for tuition? Student Loans?
Maybe.
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| billybob
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Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:22 am |
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| GEL wrote: | Also where did Obama get his money early on?
This election has me very worried. So many things to consider.
Awhile back, I started thinking 'where did the money come from
for Obama'.
I started looking/reading into Obama's life.
Around 1979 Obama started college at Occidental in California.
He is very open about his two years at Occidental, he tried all kinds of drugs and was wasting his time but, even though he supposedly had a brilliant mind, did not apply himself to his studies. 'Barry'(that was
the name he used all his life) during this time had two roommates,
Muhammad Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, both from Pakistan.
During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a 'round the world' trip. Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia, next Hyderabad in India, three weeks in Karachi, Pakistan where he stayed with his roommate's family, then off to Africa to visit his father's family. My question - Where did he get the money for this trip? No one I know would have had money for a trip like this when I/they where in college. When he came back he started school at Columbia University in New York. It is at this time he wants everyone to call him Barack - not Barry. Do you know what the tuition is at Columbia? It's not cheap! to say the least. Were did he get money for tuition? Student Loans?
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It should have everyone worried!!! We know one place he got his campaign money -- from Fannie and Freddie!!!
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| annie13
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Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:29 am |
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http://blog.mccainslobbyists.com/?p=150
McCain Money News Roundup for Oct. 6, 2008
The Republican National Committee made the news over the weekend by demanding a Federal Election Commission audit of Barack Obama’s political donations, citing concerns that the Democratic nominee was illegally accepting money from foreign nationals, the Wall Street Journal and others reported.
The Journal’s take notes that Republicans
“didn’t provide evidence of widespread foreign contributions”
and that any audit, if approved would take place after election day, two facts that have led to questions over the motives behind the RNC’s action.
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| dugo
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Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:49 pm |
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blah .. the top donors to rep&dem are mostly globalised corporations... dump that stupid rule..
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| K Hemingway
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Mon Oct 06, 2008 4:56 pm |
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FEC Queries McCain Campaign on 'Excessive Contributions'
By Matthew Mosk
While the Republican Party is pushing the Federal Election Commission to investigate the possibility that Democrat Barack Obama collected excessive contributions, its own candidate is facing scrutiny on the same subject.
The FEC sent a letter to Sen. John McCain's campaign treasurer Sept. 30 demanding the candidate turn over more information about "contributions that appear to exceed the limits."
The letter is accompanied by a nine-page list showing scores of overages from McCain's August campaign finance report, including nearly $13,000 from Texas rancher Ray R. Barrett Jr.; $9,200 from an Iraqi security consultant, H. Carter Andress; and $5,000 from Joseph F. Davolio, an executive at a major national liquor, beer and wine distributor.
"Please inform the Commission of your corrective action immediately in writing and provide photocopies of any refund checks and/or letters reattributing or redesignating the contributions in question," the letter from the FEC's senior campaign finance analyst, Leah S. Palmer, says. "The acceptance of excessive contributions is a serious problem."
The FEC sent its letter a week before a lawyer for the Republican National Committee said the party will ask the Federal Election Commission to look into the source of thousands of small-dollar contributions to Obama.
The RNC is alleging that the Obama campaign was so hungry for donations it "looked the other way" as contributions piled up from suspicious and possibly even illegal foreign donors. RNC Chief Counsel Sean Cairncross alleged there was mounting evidence of this, and cited a report in the current issue of Newsweek magazine that documents a handful of instances where donors made repeated small donations using fake names, such as "Good Will" and "Doodad Pro."
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/06/fec_queries_mccain_campaign_on.html
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