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Obama, Democrats Push DISCLOSE Act to Intimidate Romney Donors (US Senate vote Sunday)
US News and World Report ^ | July 13, 2012

Posted on 07/13/2012 5:13:31 PM PDT by Red Steel

There are a lot of people who have been saying a lot of things about the way elections are run in the United States ever since the Supreme Court opened up new avenues of campaign spending in the Citizens United case.

This wasn't always the case. Back in 2008 nary a word was heard when Barack Obama announced he would be the first general election candidate to refuse public funding for his presidential campaign, a good government safeguard in place since Watergate.

If that were not bad enough, none of the so-called campaign watchdog groups showed any interest in the fundraising irregularities surrounding the Obama campaign that were uncovered by The American Spectator and other investigative journals.

That was then. This is now, as the saying goes. Now that Obama is having trouble raising money while former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is raking in the cash at a good clip, the idea that money is a problem in campaigns is once again at the center of the debate.

On Monday the U.S. Senate is going to again take up the DISCLOSE Act, an effort the Democrats and their allies want to pass in order to be able to intimidate donors to the GOP, to Romney, and to conservative causes.

The problem is not how the money enters the system. The Democrats have their own groups who are doing just what the GOP is. As the Washington Post reported in June of 2011, "Senior Democrats, fearing a repeat of that scenario in 2012, have put together a shadow party of their own this year—an operation led by Priorities USA but that also includes super PACs aimed at Senate (Majority PAC) and House (House Majority PAC) contests." Pro-Obama super PACs were first out of the gate in their attacks on Romney and they have thus far been paying a significant portion of the freight for efforts supporting the president's re-election.

It's not the new system they don't like—even while they attack it. It's that without knowing the identity of the donors who are giving the money to the GOP, they can't send their mobs arising out of the "Occupy" movement and like-minded groups to the homes of donors in an effort to intimidate them into closing their checkbooks. Last week, for example, hoards of protesters descended on a neighborhood in New York to picket the home of a couple holding a Romney fundraiser, including a plane towing an obnoxious banner overhead.

Other donors to Romney have been singled out by name by the Obama campaign, triggering boycotts of the companies with whom they are affiliated. No such actions have been taken, on the other hand, against individuals or events organized to raise funds for pro-Obama groups. The hypocrisy of the left on these issues should be apparent to anyone who cares to look. They don't want an even playing field. They don't want fairness. They want to force, through new law or through intimidation, the GOP's money out of the political process so they can do all the spending they want, unmatched by anyone who disagrees.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: backstabberromney; discloseact; iwontvoteforromney; romneyantiteaparty; senate; stenchofromney

1 posted on 07/13/2012 5:13:42 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

Oops. Make that Monday instead of Sunday for the Senate vote.


2 posted on 07/13/2012 5:14:58 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel

I wonder if a certain Senator from Arizona will support this?


3 posted on 07/13/2012 5:17:11 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: Red Steel

I wonder if a certain Senator from Arizona will support this?


4 posted on 07/13/2012 5:17:11 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: Red Steel

I wonder if a certain Senator from Arizona will support this?


5 posted on 07/13/2012 5:17:16 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: Red Steel

Is this all that little creep, Dingy Harry from Stoplight Nevada has got to do?


6 posted on 07/13/2012 5:18:12 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Help reduce voter fraud in America! If you see something, say something!)
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To: Red Steel

Boehner needs to throw this back at the Rats and tell them, “Sure, but only if we make it retroactive to 2008”. Then watch the Rats squirm.


7 posted on 07/13/2012 5:20:02 PM PDT by firedawg76
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To: Red Steel

Wow - from US News and World Report, no less. The outright criminal behavior of much of media in support of this lousy excuse for a president is already beyond belief... so even one source like this turning the screws on the Zero is heartening.


8 posted on 07/13/2012 5:20:55 PM PDT by Ron C.
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To: Ron C.

don’t forget- the WaComPost twice this week called out obama for being a liar in his ads and reports...the second time they admitted obama lied for inferring Romney was a felon less then 24hrs after they made the accusation....

i think the criminal liberal media may be afraid they are next if the POS occupying the WH is re-elected...


9 posted on 07/13/2012 5:26:14 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5million pay no federal income tax then vote demoKrat)
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To: God luvs America

From you typing fingers to the ears of God. No group of organizations in the world need a harsher comeuppance than does the liberal media in this nation.


10 posted on 07/13/2012 5:28:49 PM PDT by Ron C.
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To: firedawg76; All

we should get a calling campaign to Boehner and McConnell’s office demanding as much....


11 posted on 07/13/2012 5:29:16 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5million pay no federal income tax then vote demoKrat)
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To: Ron C.

“No group of organizations in the world need a harsher comeuppance than does the liberal media in this nation.”

Even Mussolini understood what a menace they were; he repeated burned down their newspaper offices because of their destructive bile.


12 posted on 07/13/2012 5:35:02 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: Red Steel

What are Obama’s grades again?


13 posted on 07/13/2012 5:35:47 PM PDT by Mister Anderson
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To: Mister Anderson

I am sure the House will put it on the agenda to vote on after the Senate Budget


14 posted on 07/13/2012 5:55:42 PM PDT by scooby321 (h tones)
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To: firedawg76

Demand of the Dems what they demand of the Reps. Show me yours first if you’re so concerned about ‘transparency’ and ‘openness’ and then I’ll show you mine. Lead by example.

How about, create a panel to investigate “anonymous donations” to “ALL” candidates in the 2008 Presidential election. Report the findings around October 25, 2012.

Hypocrisy? CNBC Shows More ‘Foreign-Connected’ Money Goes to Dems by a ‘Healthy Margin’

(Excerpt)

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2010/10/11/hypocrisy-cnbc-shows-more-foreign-connected-money-goes-dems-healthy-margi

Obama Turns Blind Eye to Credit Card Donation Fraud

http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/obama_illegal_donations/2008/10/21/142761.html

What do Bart Simpson, Family Guy, Daffy Duck, King Kong, O.J. Simpson and Raela Odinga have in common?

All are celebrities; and with the exception of Odinga and O.J. Simpson, they also are fictional characters. And yet, all of them gave money earlier this month to the campaign of Barack Obama, without any apparent effort by the campaign to screen them out as suspect donors.

The Obama fundraising machine may owe its sensational success in part to a relaxation of standard online merchant security practices, which has allowed illegal donations from foreign donors and from unknown individuals using anonymous “gift” cards, industry analysts and a confidential informant tell Newsmax.

**“OBAMA’S FOREIGN DONORS: THE MEDIA AVERTS ITS EYES”**

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/obamas_donor_contributions_sil.html

(He accepts credit cards including Macy’ s!)

**Fictitious Donors Found in Obama Finance Records**

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/us/politics/10donate.html?ref=politics

During 2008, the Obama campaign didn’t show any interest in going beyond the letter of the law in disclosing its donors to the general public. Despite public pleas from campaign-finance reform groups such as Common Cause and Democracy 21, Team Obama refused to follow Senator John McCain’s lead and release names of donors who gave less than $200, even though such donors supplied about half of the $800 million the Obama campaign raised.

Here’s Evidence of Foreign Campaign Donations

http://bigjournalism.com/jdunetz/2010/10/12/attn-msm-heres-evidence-of-foreign-campaign-donations/


15 posted on 07/13/2012 6:16:34 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: Red Steel

The democrat power-brokers and their radical supporters are right now reminding me of what I know of the Nazis in the 1920s, and I am not exaggerating. Intimidating bully punks who single out opponents to demonize, and then depend on the naive emotionalism of the masses. These people are flat-out scary, but historically, their type never has a good ending even here on earth, let alone when they have to stand before the Judgement Seat of the Almighty and True God Whom they so casually mock.


16 posted on 07/13/2012 10:58:48 PM PDT by line drive to right
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Is this all that little creep, Dingy Harry from Stoplight Nevada has got to do?

Obviously - and right at the time that Obama mocks the Repubs for trying to repeal his DeathPanel bottomless money pit. he says they should do something useful (what could be more useful?) and his side literally attends to non-value-added BS....

17 posted on 07/14/2012 3:22:44 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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