Posted on 10/21/2011 10:49:24 AM PDT by Clairity
Herman Cain's case against pundits who claim he's running a book tour rather than a presidential campaign just got a bit more complicated.
Federal Election Commission records show that the former Godfather's Pizza executive paid more than $64,000 of his presidential campaign funds to his motivational speaking company, T.H.E. New Voice Inc., for copies of his own books, and for lodging, airfare, and resources, Bloomberg News reports.
Previous rulings by the FEC have allowed candidates to use their campaign funds to buy their own books, as long as the purchase is at market value and the money goes to charity rather than to personal profit. But Bill Allison, editorial director at the Washington, D.C.-based Sunlight Foundation, told Bloomberg that Cain's case should raise some eyebrows.
"All candidates publish books and they offer them as a premiums to donors, but most candidates aren't buying them from their own companies," Allison said. "It raises the question of his campaign contributions ending up in his own pocket."
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Another $100 to Cain from me...
Please sir, may I have another?
Pot, meet kettle.
No, but you should be zotted for you habitual race-baiting of other FReepers and the cowardice to not name them.
I don’t care about you. I know who and what you are.
What I want to know is the policy of the monitors on the site.
I know who and what you are too but you didn’t ask me about the “monitors.”
Even he knew they were full of trash and lies.
As a Jewish convert, I’m actually confused by what you’re trying to say here. What is the problem with Cain being friends with a Jewish couple?
I find the implication that there’s anything wrong with Cain working with, and visiting Israel with, a Jewish couple a little insulting.
No. A LOT insulting.
These Perry people are kind of jerks. Can’t they just support their own candidate? Why do they have to go around trashing everybody else?
One more thing: I’m helping my daughter write a novel at the moment. It’s *her* book, her voice, but I’m filling in the blanks. What’s wrong with that?
What the heck do you have against the Jewish people? Are you an anti-Semite?
I did not read that implication. Think you’re being a little over-sensitive. The poster was just explaining that someone else or two someone elses who apparently do this for a living wrote Cain’s book for him.
Most celebrities/politicians do this. I can only think of a few who didn’t.
Have you noticed that almost every single one is from Texas? The mentality among some Texans, with their big mouthed superiority complexes, is really a sight to behold. They think they own conservatism.
Clairity got the ZOT.
It’s about FReepin’ time!
Clairity has turned into the WORST troll FR as seen in a LONG time!
Don’t let the door hit you in the butt, troll!
Polybius got zotted, too?!
Finally!
I think that the mods give the older FReepers a chance, that’s why they’re allowed to push things a bit more.
But it’s good to see that there are limits.
I’ve been waiting for the purge. It’s about FReepin’ time!!
I don't know where they're from. But you would think if they were so proud of their candidate, they would be happy just posting positive articles about him. Instead, they go around constantly trashing everybody else.
Honesty? That’s one policy.
Using the actual title of the piece when posting.
Not posting the same thread over and over, trying to get it to ‘stick’. (Clairity was bad about that one.)
Race baiting? Yup. FR frowns on that.
Wrong. Cain was referring to government forcing a woman who gave birth to a child due to rape to raise that child, not to abortion. That is the problem with you Perry trolls (and I use the term troll in a very specific manner here). You are falling over yourselves to twist Cain's utterances into an attack with little resemblence to his actual words. Most Perry supporters on FR can debate the issues such as the merits of Cain's 999 plan. But a few are just rolling in the gutters.
I am not sure Cain is the right choice. But I'm getting sick of the Perry trolls thrashing other candidates just because their guy shot himself in the foot and is showing no sign of recovering from that.
I didn’t know that Polybius had been zotted. That doesn’t break my heart. He wasn’t honest about anything going way back before anyone was interested in Perry.
Thank You! The fact that the Sunlight Foundation finds Mr. Cain’s actions worthy of “raising eyebrows” is a matter of laughter to me.
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