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Herman Cain's campaign paid his company to buy his books [zot]
CBS News ^ | Oct 18, 2011 | Lindsey Boerma

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: anotherleftistsource; books; books4sale; cain; hermancain; laraza; maldef; nationalbooktour; perryastroturfing; rinoalert; texican; troll; zot
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To: Clairity

Buh-bye, you deranged nitwit TROLL !


141 posted on 10/21/2011 4:04:13 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Rick Perry has more red flags than a May Day Parade)
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To: wolfcreek

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.


142 posted on 10/21/2011 4:04:39 PM PDT by Politicalmom (I am intrigued and open to the Bush administrationÂ’s amnesty proposal. -Rick Perry)
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To: Marie

Bingo !


143 posted on 10/21/2011 4:06:33 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Rick Perry has more red flags than a May Day Parade)
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To: Marie

Well said.


144 posted on 10/21/2011 4:08:59 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: wolfcreek
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.

145 posted on 10/21/2011 4:11:28 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Politicalmom

BINGO.


146 posted on 10/21/2011 4:11:28 PM PDT by Marie (Cain 9s Have Teeth)
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To: Clairity
Anti-Semite much?
147 posted on 10/21/2011 4:19:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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To: wolfcreek
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?


148 posted on 10/21/2011 4:19:56 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: altura

You “newbies” and your questions! /s


149 posted on 10/21/2011 4:20:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

clairity has been banned.


150 posted on 10/21/2011 4:20:51 PM PDT by Marie (Cain 9s Have Teeth)
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To: Clairity; 230FMJ; 50mm; A.Hun; abigailsmybaby; AFPhys; Aircop_2006; AliVeritas; Allegra; ...
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.

151 posted on 10/21/2011 4:22:12 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: wolfcreek

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.


152 posted on 10/21/2011 4:26:00 PM PDT by Larry Lucido ("#Occupy America" is a great success! I got mail today addressed to "Occupant"!)
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To: Sudetenland

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


153 posted on 10/21/2011 4:32:03 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Clairity

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.


154 posted on 10/21/2011 4:32:54 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Boogieman
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.
155 posted on 10/21/2011 4:46:35 PM PDT by Sudetenland (There can be no freedom without God--What man gives, man can take away.)
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To: Larry Lucido

ditto


156 posted on 10/21/2011 4:47:53 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: Sudetenland

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

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


157 posted on 10/21/2011 4:53:55 PM PDT by Politicalmom (I am intrigued and open to the Bush administrationÂ’s amnesty proposal. -Rick Perry)
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To: Politicalmom

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


158 posted on 10/21/2011 4:58:37 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: darkwing104

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


159 posted on 10/21/2011 5:02:32 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Marking time on the government's dime...)
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To: buccaneer81

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


160 posted on 10/21/2011 5:06:04 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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