Posted on 07/23/2018 9:49:34 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Willie Wilson, the millionaire businessman and candidate for Chicago mayor, handed out cash to potential voters Sunday morning at a church on Chicagos South Side.
An aide to Wilson said the businessman gave away $300,000 to 2,000 people through the Dr. Willie Wilson Foundation, a 501(c)(3). Such organizations are tax-exempt, must not be organized for the benefit of private interests and are restricted in how much political activities they can conduct. Wilson says he organized the giveaway to assist homeowners who are struggling to pay their property tax bills.
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(yawn)...this is the way Chicago politics has worked since the 1920’s if not earlier.
Is this a loophole in the law preventing buying votes or bribery?
Let him waste his money. They would have voted for a Democrat anyway if they even bother to vote at all. I also think it is illegal but we don’t have legal system that is worth anything.
Just good old fashioned “walking around money”, nothing to see here.
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