Herman Cain's campaign paid his company to buy his books [zot]

CBS News ^ | Oct 18, 2011 | Lindsey Boerma

[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."

[fieldmarshaldj]

Buh-bye, you deranged nitwit TROLL !

[Politicalmom]

I don’t care if someone “disagrees” with me.

When they make it a full time job to LIE repeatedly about someone, then I care.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Bingo !

[buccaneer81]

Well said.

[buccaneer81]

You think fellow FReepers getting zotted is good because YOU don’t agree with them?

No, I think it's good because they were lying trolls.

[Marie]

BINGO.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Anti-Semite much?

[EveningStar]

How can you people relish the demise of fellow FReepers because you don't agree with them?

There's something seriously wrong with several of you.

Scary, isn't it?

[2ndDivisionVet]

You “newbies” and your questions! /s

[Marie]

clairity has been banned.

[darkwing104]

So, Schmucky...do you like kitties?

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Viking Kitty/ZOT ping list!. . . don't be shy.

[Larry Lucido]

Cain is my choice. Perry is a good choice too.

What is moronic is for FReepers to try to bloody the candidate that is not their first choice. It’s stupid.

Remember the Duncan Hunter/Fred Thompson wars in 2007? Both were good, patriotic people. So what did (some) of their demented supporters do? Kept trying to bloody the other candidate. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I was a Hunter supporter and my friend Pissant kept trying to bloody Thompson (and years later, Palin). Stupid, stupid. You don’t try to bloody good people.

I will vote for Cain. I will enthusiastically support Perry if he wins the nomination.

Both camps need to stop inflicting harm on the other candidate. It’s stupid.

Clairity was one of the stupid ones. Good riddance.

Now, let’s support our respective candidates without the whole circular firing squad.

[GeronL]

I like Cain but I wish he’d support the flat tax.

[dforest]

I don’t even know if I am voting for Cain yet, But I damn tootin’ ain’t voting for Gubner Gardisil, best friend of illegal twits.

[Sudetenland]

Read my post 99. I am not putting words in his mouth, I am not quoting him out of context, I am ripping him apart with his own words accurately quoted in context and his dishonest attempt to lie about what he said, again in his own words.

Feel free to attack me in your pitiful attempt at rationalization, but the guy is dishonest or stupid, and since he is literally "a rocket scientist," we are faced with the fact that he must be dishonest.

[mnehring]

ditto

[Politicalmom]

It is absolutely out of context when you omit the QUESTION HE WAS ANSWERING.

Oh, and the word “choice” is not synonymous with “abortion”.

[mnehring]

You are exactly right.
It seems bearing false witness is in vogue these days.

[Old Sarge]

“Band of Whiskers” - you owe me a new keyboard!

[GeronL]

A lot of us anti-Perry’s are from Texas too