Democrats Say No Money Is Missing (waders needed-knee deep BS)

The Lakeland Ledger ^ | July 1, 2005 | By Joe Follick

[ChildOfThe60s]

Florida Democratic Party said Thursday that an audit showed no money missing and also showed no intentional fraud in the nonpayment of federal taxes in 2003

Note that not one reporter calls them on this baloney.

They withhold $200,000 in taxes from paychecks & then do not send it to the IRS; they spend it. Can anyone in liberal never-never land explain how that can happen without fraud?

Two weeks ago $900,000 is missing. Now, amazingly it's not? Excuse me while I leap off the back of a turnip truck.

[ken5050]

This thereore makes them eminently qualified to run the state government...

[linkinpunk]

Depends on what the definition of "missing" is.

[PGalt]

Great post. Another shining example of the anti-freedom, Democratic Crime Syndicate at work in The United States of America.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Oh yeah, and I should have aked, what exactly does "no intentional fraud" mean? There is such a thing as unintentional fraud?

[MudSlide]

They found the missing money on Hillary Clinton's desk

[MinuteGal]

Florida Dim party chair, Karen Thurman is in my district. She is a liberal ditz of the first magnitude.

From her thin, cold lips, I know now that if I ever get in deep doo-doo with the IRS, I just have to declare it a "new day", state good intentions for the future, and move on.

Please forward any freepmails to me at the Tallahassee Federal Graybar Hotel.

[rod1]

Wow If Maddox did this in only two years for the Florida RAT Party just think just think what he could do in two years to the whole state as its Governor! Another great highly qualified candidate for sure---not.

[FreedomPoster]

>>an audit showed no money missing

I'm thinking that one of the Big Four CPA firms did *NOT* sign off on that one.

Notice there is no mention of who did the audit, other than "the audit by outside experts". Oh, well, that pins it right down. "Outside experts". Great.

Where's the pdf of the audit results letter with all the footnotes, signed by a CPA?

[rod1]

Someone should tell Karen there are no more bucks to stop with her. Only IOUs. Wonder how

They are in debt thaks to this crooked operation.


I assume Ms. Over-Her-Head Hyphenated was hired by Maddox for some other purpose than her administrative skills. Wonder how much money Tallehasse lost when these people were in charge of the money.

[hometoroost]

"The audit also said former party chairman Scott Maddox had no knowledge of the myriad accounting woes that happened on his watch."

If this were a private sector business owner the Dems would be crying to Sarbanes-Oxley him off to some hard time. Somebody needs to go to jail.

[John Jorsett]

[SauronOfMordor]

Thursday, she said the party had about $80,000 on hand. That's less than 2 percent of the $7 million-plus raised by the Republican Party of Florida this year.

If this is true, then the Dems are in deep trouble. Dems depend heavily on "walking around money" to grease the palms of their "activist" base, to pay for buses to bring people to the polls, etc, etc. No money = no turnout.

The vulnerability of the Dems is that they need to have the ability to flow govt money to their base, and to do "favors" for their contributors. If they are sufficiently out of power that they're unable to do anything for their base and their contributors, then they will go into a steep downward spiral

[NonValueAdded]

So what is their claim, no intentional fraud, just rank stupidity?

[NCLaw441]

They withhold $200,000 in taxes from paychecks & then do not send it to the IRS; they spend it. Can anyone in liberal never-never land explain how that can happen without fraud?

My understand of the law is that failure to turn in withholdings from paychecks subjects the principals in the organization to personal liability. This is statutory fraud as I understand it, whether "intentional" or not. I wonder (not really) whether media coverage would have been somewhat more substantial had this been a republican organization. Is anyone else surprised that Dan Rather has not come out of retirement to chase this story? /sarcasm

[NonValueAdded]

Maddox said he thought Griffin-Bruton could handle the work and hired other outside accountants to help her.

Ah, I see it now ... applied welfare was the culprit, patronage for a crony. Promote a clerk to CFO and then spend the party's money to cover up for the favor. Of course Maddox is yelling smear campaign ... what else is a RAT to do when caught red-handed. It could have been a payoff (what did that woman know and when did she know it?), a shining example of Maddox's decision-making ability (and a clear example of what would happen as gov), or payback for sexual favors (no proof but such a promotion of a female does call the question). All Maddox can do now is try to kill the messengers. He knows the MSM will protect him from real scrutiny.

[Loyal Buckeye]

No money was missing.

Sincerely,

Rev. Al Sharpton, CPA

[YaYa123]

Here's a prime example of "that" overload. Read this column, eliminating every "that", (except one I think, in the second paragraph), and you'll discover how aggravating these goober writers are. It reads so much better without "that" clutter. I don't know if this qualifies as "verbal acne", but it's driving me up the proverbial wall.

[tet68]

Thursday, she said the party had about $80,000 on hand.

Wait, they coughed up 98,000 and borrowed another
$102,000 from the party, shouldn't they be still in debt?
Maybe this is part of the $900,000?
With democrats money just appears and disappears like magic.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Exactly. 900 G's missing, two days later it's not. They withold 200 grand from paychecks, send nothing to IRS, have 90 grand on hand. But, there's nothing missing? New math? Or just people that know the press will not call them on whatever BS they throw out?