Is THIS legal? 527 raises ZERO $$ in 5 years and gives away about $2,300,000 to Dems

Public Integrity website ^ | July 2004 | Public Integrity

[goodnesswins]

IAFF FirePAC Educational - Treasury Labor union 1750 New York Avenue Washington, DC 20006

(Financial information for this committee was last updated on 8/9/2004)

Total Contributions $0 Total Expenditures $2,586,416

Clicking on a year's total of "Amount Raised" or "Amount Spent" yields a tab-delimited text file of that year's contributions or expenditures, which can then be saved to your computer or opened in a text editor. Please note that larger amounts may take longer to download.

Year Amount Raised Amount Spent

2000 $0 $699,067

2001 $0 $718,969

2002 $0 $791,710

2003 $0 $277,820

2004 $0 $98,850

In determining a committee's major donors and recipients, the Center grouped individual contributors together with the organizations they reported as employers. Where no employer and occupation information was provided, or where an individual reported being self-employed, the Center identified donors through their affiliations with organizations. For example, a donor listed as "XYZ Company" could include contributions directly from the company and from individuals who list XYZ as an employer, along with those individuals' spouses. The figures on this page represent contributions and expenditures since disclosure began in August 2000, or since the establishment of the particular 527 committee, if later than August 2000.

Recipients of at Least $10,000 Amount Spent

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee $233,500

Democratic Leadership Council $225,000

Democratic National Committee $196,000

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committe

e $186,000 Democratic Governors Association $180,000

Gov. Gray Davis/Californians Against the Cost

ly Recall of the Governor $150,000

Kelly Press, Inc. $146,406

AFL-CIO $125,000

Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee $120,000

Tigereye Design, Inc. $86,379

National Republican Congressional Committee $55,000

Louisiana Democratic Party $45,000

Lake Snell Perry & Associates, Inc. $34,902

Gov. Rod Blagojevich $25,000

Gov. Mark Warner/One Virginia PAC/Victory 2001 $25,000

Gov. Bill Richardson/Moving America Forward $25,000

Missouri Democratic Party $25,000

New Jersey Democratic Party $25,000

K & R Industries $22,223

The Dutko Group Inc. $17,741

Filings (links to PDF documents)

Contributions Expenditures July 2004 $0 $14,250 June 2004 $0 $27,850 May 2004 $0 $3,000 April 2004 $0 $2,500 March 2004 $0 $1,250 February 2004 $0 $50,000 January 2004 $0 $0 December 2003 $0 $26,150 November 2003 $0 $2,000 October 2003 $0 $29,000 September 2003 $0 $126,000 August 2003 $0 $1,500 July 2003 $0 $33,000 March 2003 $0 $52,000 February 2003 $0 $4,575 January 2003 $0 $3,595 Post-General 2002 $0 $161,011 September 2002 $0 $114,699 August 2002 $0 $3,000 July 2002 $0 $36,250 June 2002 $0 $195,250 May 2002 $0 $58,500 April 2002 $0 $1,500 March 2002 $0 $90,500 February 2002 $0 $54,500 January 2002 $0 $76,500 December 2001 $0 $128,493 November 2001 $0 $25,475 October 2001 $0 $87,750 September 2001 $0 $13,250 August 2001 $0 $19,050 July 2001 $0 $50,000 June 2001 $0 $25,550 May 2001 $0 $5,000 April 2001 $0 $3,750 March 2001 $0 $209,000 February 2001 $0 $71,457 January 2001 $0 $80,194 Year-End 2000 $0 $124,180 Post-General 2000 $0 $220,476 Pre-General 2000 $0 $200,713 August 2000 $0 $108,943 July 2000 $0 $44,755

[goodnesswins]

Make that over $2.5 million.....is this LEGAL??? Or just for Dems?

[nomad]

Have you e-mailed any of the conservative web news sites on this, drudge, worldnet, newsmax?

[tall_tex]

Only in America. Is this a great country or what?

[steplock]

"conservative web news sites on this, drudge"

DRUDGE? Conservative? nah - non-commital is the most I can give him - about the same as the SUN or the Enquirer.

[goodnesswins]

Nope.....not YET....gotta go make dinner right now...back later.

[Robert A Cook PE]

How is this legal under McCain-Feingold?

Heck....

How is this even POSSIBLE under any accounting techniques?

[writer33]

Who knows? It doesn't matter when it comes to Democrats. They'll find a court that'll make it legal.

[Robert A Cook PE]

IAFF = ????

(International Association of Firefighters?)

[Rakkasan1]

correction. only in unions in America

[Ben Hecks]

"International Association of Firefighters?"

You are correct. Odd that they would also operate a laundry.

[aft_lizard]

I know one thing the IAFF is not a 527 I believe its a 501(C).

[stylin19a]

FirePac gives a different graph on the web-site:

http://www.iaff.org/politics/us/content/what.html

[aft_lizard]

according to FIRE Pacs website they have raised more than they have spent.

http://www.iaff.org/politics/us/content/what.html

[Indy Pendance]

Just dems. They get away with everything. I'm glad the swift boat vets are standing up to them.

[snuffy smiff]

Matt Drudge is quickly becoming the O'reilly(sp?) of the internet...


I rarely go there anymore

[calenel]

"How is this even POSSIBLE under any accounting techniques?"

Union Dues are not "contributions" so they don't count.

[Indy Pendance]

"I rarely go there anymore"

It's Sunday, watch out for teasers to promote his radio show.

[tall_tex]

...only unions in America.

I stand corrected.

[fly_so_free]

Can someone please tell me how to do this with my bank account? If I have zero dollars in checking, it means I have $687,433 dollars to spend? Neat trick.